| Kunming: 'The City of Eternal Spring' Posted Monday, 12 February 2007 | ||
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| 'Welcome to Kunming' the sign at the airport proclaimed, 'Dress Lightly for the City of Eternal Spring'. Unfortunately it was zero degrees with driving snow (first snow in three years), and so didn't feel especially welcoming after balmy Singapore! The first couple of days we were there it was hard to see much of Kunming, what with the blizzard and all, but once we'd stocked up on neck-high, ankle-length thermals we had a good look around and it's a crazy place. Since opening up in the late 80s, China's changed dramatically. Everyone we spoke to talked of how much bigger the cities are, how enormous industry's become, how bad the pollution's got and how much more freedom they have now (it's all relative). What epitomised it for us was seeing the labourers who are building the skyscrapers getting to work on horse-drawn carts. | ||
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