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    Planes, trains & Automobiles, 3 chinese citys

    Just back from a trip to china with her indoors, we flew out of Vientiane and started in Kunming, then took a domestic to chongquing where we got on a bullet train to chengdu. Loads of pics so it might be a long thread, grab a beer and pull up a chair

    First thing to do is nip over to the chinese embassy in Vientiane and get tourist visas, $35 for me ( aussie passport) And $15 For the wife ( Lao passport ) bung em another $20 each and you can get it back next day instead of 4 days







    Arriving in Kunming, The airports quite new and bloody efficient



    Time to find a taxi





    Taxis in Kunming all have a perspex or steel cage around the driver, fok knows why
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    Quote Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker
    Taxis in Kunming all have a perspex or steel cage around the driver, fok knows why
    ..... Chinese people, especially when drunk, are violent bastards.

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    Stayed here a night , nice place and next to emerald lake



    There must be a few bucks in Kunming, spotted this Maserati in the carpark of the hotel.


    Heres a Map shows the places we were banging around in




    The great helmsman


    After check in its time to grab a taxi and go check out the kunming sites





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    Quote Originally Posted by pseudolus
    Chinese people, especially when drunk, are violent bastards.
    Thats what i thought, They seemed aggressive little fookers sober, got a couple of pics in here somewhere of 2 blokes having a fisticuff in the market, and saw it nearly come to blows on the plane with a couple of blokes

    The work bench

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    Chinese Apartment painters dangling of ropes



    Looks like plenty of folks have a few Yuan in the pocket but still see beggers around, This bloke was playing that awful chinese racket , but at least he was having a try eh


    Not like this geezer


    Heres the 2 chinese blokes having a ding dong, the cops soon showed up and sent em on there way


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    Good one BLD,In the 80's I spent many trips and weeks and months tramping around the PRC showing bods from Aust primarily the Oz Wheat Board the ropes.

    It got so I couldn't stand the place. I can see from yr pictures the dramatic changes in the place, so its of great interest to me. It was so long ago that if you over paid a taxi driver a little, he wold come running after you with change.

    I bet that doesn't happen now.
    There can’t be good living where there is not good drinking

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    More later

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    Quote Originally Posted by peterpan
    Good one BLD,In the 80's I spent many trips and weeks tramping around the PRC showing bods from Aust primarily the Oz Wheat Board the ropes. It got so I couldn't stand the place. I can see from yr pictures the dramatic changes in the place, so its of great interest to me. It was so along ago that if you over paid a taxi driver a little, he wold come running after you with change. I bet that doesn't happen now.
    Actually Peter, i was surprised by the taxi drivers in the 3 citys we went we never had drama with the taxi drivers, The put on the meter as soon as you got in no haggling what so ever, ( Nice ) the only problem was with the lingo but i had a chinese guy at work write down a bunch of stuff in chinese for me which helped,
    Bit hard to give em a clip around the ear with these cages around em if they start taking the piss

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    nice action - but seriously.....where are the pics of the cute pieces of chinese tail?

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    Im getting to the beer and birds bit shortly

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    better do - or I will interject with some of the mainland chuff I have boffed and photographed. Buck your ideas up sunshine.

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    The second lesson should be, wheres the Toilet? Bloody chinese beer made me piss like a racehorse,



    I must of been in the red light area because i spotted a tubby chinese girl getting around in suspenders and stockings


    This little dolly had an awesome chassis, melon was a bit rough though



    eye candy everywhere,



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    City looks very clean.
    Amazing given their habits.

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    exactly, Kunming, chengdu, and chongquing were all surprisingly clean given the amount of throat clearing and spitting that gets done . quite impressive really, The air pollution was pretty bad in chengdu and more so in chongquing though




    Green Lake in Kunming

    Old Blokes flying there kites



    Haircut time




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    There you go psuedolous, couple of fit looking birds there


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    Another cute one.



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    I hope that's your hair he was asking you about BLD? I know what these fruity barbers can be like.

    Never really fancied China much, but it does look very interesting. Nice thread mate, cheers.

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    He was a bit light on the loafers for sure ,

    Chinese tuk tuk




    Oldies exercising in the park








    Time for a feed after all that sight seeing





    i ate well in china

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    up early in the morning and we are of to catch a domestic flight to chongquing ( Home of the Sichuan hotpot, need to pop a couple of rolls of toilet paper in the fridge before tackling that one


    Plenty of domestic carriers about and cheap to fly about the place, some look a bit dodgy though





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    A couple of shots of Kunming from the plane window





    The mandatory shitter photo




    A couple more from the window





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    Looking good so far!

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    Quote Originally Posted by pseudolus
    Woeful beer, and the other shit you were drinking most likely gave you Hep a, b and c.
    ^ I couldnt get on with any of the chinese piss, i think the best out of a bad bunch was snow beer, couldnt find it everywhere though, ended up drinking heinekin or whatever imported beer i could find, found some dark chimay belgian beer one night, not cheap but at 9 % i didnt really need to many .Probably just got the Hep A and C , Im hep B resistant

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    Chongqing is an amazing place its described as the Megalopolous youve never heard of and is the fastest growing urban center on the planet

    The view from out the window of the hotel, plenty of smog


    Our gaff in chongqing







    The sign in the swimming pool telling punters not to spit in the pool.

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    Designated spit bins!! Well I never did.

    Nice looking hotel room.

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    The illusive snow beer



    Not the best beer ive ever had but it will do to wash a bit of tucker down


    Shitty american beer also brewed in china. ( Thats all that was left in the fridge, Time to head out for a wander i reckon


    These public toilets can be found all over the place and you usually smell them before you see them , only recommended for a quick wizz forget about backing out a bad boy


    Chinese girls have knocked of from work


    In chongquing there is a need for a special kind of porter , a porter who can lift more than his body weight and lug it up and down hills all day long, trolleys and rickshaws wont work here


    You also wont see any electric bikes like in other parts of china, to steep



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