Turns out in the morning that the bus have dropped us off the previous night near a clothing wholesales centre. The hotel I put up in was one of many found at the entrance of a village. The many modern budget hotels that spring up in what look like a rural village seems like the idea of enterprising villagers betting on business that would be brought in by traders coming to the wholesale centre. And I guess they may be on to something, judging by the vehicles parked in front of the centre.
The Kunming train station is about 20cents from the hotel by bus. Before long, and after a little arguement between the bus driver and a traffic police, the Kunming rolling stocks came into view.
Kunming is one of those cities that rank high on the 'most liveable' tables the media come up with, not least for its good cool weather around the year. Don't bother looking for the airconditioner remote in the hotel room, the weather is so good all around the year that the only remote you will find is for the TV.
And those who lives here are known to take things easy, so it is not difficult to see people going on with a bit of singing and dancing. Although most of them are old folks.
This reminds me of 8 Miles, the movie Eminen (where's the guy now?) starred in as a rapper. It's like a rapping contest where one side try to come up with some 'verses' that will disrespect the other. Only here, the two sides sing, and it has to be between a guy and a woman. Quite often, what they sang drew laughter from the crowd.
This looks what you would find in Dali north of Kunming, but it is right in the city centre.
In the bustling crowd outside a Mickey Dee, an old man dressed in the China Railway uniform (and an old and tattled one) claimed that he has been wrongfully persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. The details are found in writing on the paper laid on the floor.
Speaking of railway (which we often do around here), a railway-themed restaurant known as 1910 La Gare Du Sud (The South Station) hidden in the alley.
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