Friday, April 29, 2011

Off to Kunming

Up at 7:30, showered, packed. Lisa booked train tickets for 9:22 train to the airport. She figured we would leave the apartment by 9:40, that would give us lots of time to get to the train station. We haqd a helluva time getting a taxi, they all had fares aready. Lisa was very concerned we would miss the train.


Finally got a taxi at 9:05, Lisa showed the driver our train tichet to give him some urgency re the time. Off we went, swerving in and out of traffic, laying on the horn. The whole while, Lisa was saying it would be close!


Wre got to the train station at like 9:20, jumped out of the taxi, threw a wad of money at thre driver, ran through the station, rushed through security, pushed our way through the gates (pushing the locals out of the way) down to the train platform, and throught the train doors. Made it! No word of a lie, within 60 seconds of us getting on the train, the doors closed and we were off. We didn't get onto our car, so we ended up standing for the trip.


Got to airport, flight left on time, got to Kunming and got a taxi to the bus station and booked a sleeper bus to Lijiang for 8:30. We had about 4 hours to kill, so randomly walked around and found a treed hill with trails, benches and grave sites. Lisa napped and I walked around.


Back to bus station, I had a real authentic Chinese supper (i.e. I don't know what I was eating), then we went to the bus.


Sleeper buses are hilarious. The beds are tiny, no more than 5 feet long and only about 16" wide. And they squeeze as many as they can on the bus, bunk bed style.


Bus left around 9:00. They give you a pillow and a thick blanket to sleep.

1 comment:

  1. Quite the experienes. Enjoying your posts. It's Sunday, and we are presently enroute to Moose Jaw. Baby's name is Freya Sol - she's a tiny little cutie pie.

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