Day 54

23/08/2009

A rest day in Kunming so each couple opted to do different things.  Pat wanted a day of doing very little, Rachael and Tom had luggage to sort through and parcels to post home, and Catherine, Beth and I decided to explore the city.

We took a taxi to a park which was filled with locals walking, exercising and out on the water in boats. As we hadn't had breakfast, we went to a vegetarian restaurant early which served a wide range of dishes mosty made to look like (and often taste like) meat.

Next door was a temple with a large pond filled with terrapins and large goldfish, and a very relaxed environment for a city centre.  We then headed back towards the hotel via the main shoppng area and a bird and flower market, which seemed to have more stalls selling jade than birds or plants.

Arriving back at the hotel with time before Catherine needed to leave for the airport we went to one of the many massage parlours in the next street where the ladies had foot massages and I had a head and shoulder massage, which ended up being full body.  The massages were very good but took well over an hour which left Catherine a bit tight for time to get to the airport - she made it 5 minutes before the check-in closed.

The evening was a fairwell dinner for Rachael and she opted to go to the restaurant we had been aiming for last night.  The food was good but it was more of a fast food place.  Pat didn't want to eat anything remotely spicey, and she and Simon went off to eat elsewhere (KFC!).

As we had eaten quite early everyone headed off to the massage parlour we'd been to earlier with 3 of us having foot massage, and the other 4 going for the full body.

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