Kunming

I'm finally back in the furnace that is Wuhan.  This heat is killing me!  It's about 30 degrees here, and it's not even lunch time.  Better to have stayed in Kunming.  It's a really clean city and the weather is very temperate.

Relaxing at the hostel with a free beer after a rough (and late) flight from Hong Kong.

Vendors from ethnic minorities sell dried snacks all around Green Lake.

A Buddhist temple on the hills surrounding Kunming

Our black cab driver suggested we try this local Kunming noodle dish. Dad was nervous about it because it involved raw meat, but it was delicious and I didn't get the runs.

Mr. Wang, the blind masseur, massaging Mom.

Dad looking at photography in an art gallery.

Wine bar in the art district.

We planned to go to Shilin (The Stone Forest) in the evening of day two.  The hostel front desk offered a driver for 700Y.  There were 4 of us.  Mom reduced the cost per person by managing to get two other people to join us, a young German man and a young Colombian woman.  Both lived in China for a while. Our trip to Shilin proved to be quite the adventure, but that's another story...