A lot of tourism marketing in China goes like this:"If you have come to ___(1)___ and have not visited ___(2)___, then it is as if you have not been to ___(1)___!!!"
You can fill in (1),(2) with Beijing,Great Wall or Shanghai, The Bund. And in Kunming, it would be Kunming,ShiLin. Judging by the crowd, the tactic works.
Tactics aside, ShiLin does have its charm.
In one of those obligatory side-trips that Chinese tour guides take you to, a little information on the YunNang-Vietnam railway built by the French colonizers.
It was a difficult undertaking because of Yunnang mountainous terrain. Even today, lorries plying the Yunnang route have to be modified. The wheels are fitted with water sprinklers so that the braking disks can be cooled regularly because of all the braking the drivers have to do down slopes.
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