Life, Travel, GRACE

Cheap air fare comes with a cost - odd hour departure and/or arrival, unless you buy the ticket super early, like one year in advance. In my case, the flight arrived at 2am in Kunming. Since I won't be spending time in Kunming, so the best and sensible way was to fly there instead of taking the 10-hour train ride. Thus, I bought a LCC flight ticket bound for Lijiang via Ctrip website a month before. Apart from the chaotic boarding, Lucky Air service was satisfactory. Arrived in Lijiang at 8am. Caught the airport bus just outside the arrival gate; bus fare to the city cost 20 yuan. The bus reached the city terminal which was near Xianggeli Avenue. Then took a cab ride to my hostel (which I think should be 2 km away), paid 10 yuan for the short ride, checked in into dormitory, and finally had a good nap (because I didn't have enough sleep the night before). Woke up just after noon time. And spent the day wandering the old Dayan city, which was just across the road. Was very s

Went to Lijiang and Shangri-La last December. It was a last minute plan since the kids and their mum were going back to Sarawak. Initially planned to do a train trip to Bangkok. Then a friend came along suggested to go to China, but he eventually opted for India. And since the air fare to Kunming was the cheapest (I got RM400 for a return trip), so I ended up going to Yunnan province on a solo trip. Although my arrival city was Kunming, I didn't spend much time in that city. Kunming was my transit point to Lijiang. I only had a glimpse of the city on my last day of the trip where I commuted from the train station to the airport. Maybe in my next visit I shall include Kunming as one of the itineraries. Kunming Changshui International Airport (arrival hall) One of the intersections in Kunming city, near the main train station