Samstag, 8. Februar 2014

Mainland China - Kunming

... supplement to my last post...

After our tour through the rice terraces, we took the night bus to Kunming. Night buses are quite common in China. They have 2 major advantages: tickets are cheap and you don't lose much time as you would be sleeping at night anyway. In our case, it took us 8 hours going to Kunming.


On Sunday, we walked around Kunming and came across a Traditional Chinese Medicine hospital. That was pretty interesting as you could see doctors examining their patients as well as assistants preparing different kinds of remedy.










Afterwards we visited Yuantong Tempel. This large Buddhist temple was first built in the 9th century. If you go there during lunch time, you can even get a tasty vegetarian dish for a few RMB.













As the weather was just perfectly sunny, we decided to pay a visit to Green Lake Park to relax before we flew back to Hong Kong. The park dates back in the 17th century. It's right in the city centre. Locals seemed to enjoy the sunny Sunday as well as the park was full of people walking around the lake, boating or dancing.