Wow for a very modern clean city, this place is so relaxed. The traffic is minor and large good roads in most places. Chongqing and Kunming could not be more different. I wandered around the town looking for a bus to the Bamboo temple but I was the only person looking and it would cost me 100 there and back and I wouldn't get to see much else. So thought better of it. I wandered in to the old part of Kunming and the flower and bird market. Contrary to the LP, there were loads of birds and flowers for sale, among a hell of a lot of other things. I explored all the little alleys and found them. Loads of fish, loads of mice and hamsters and turtles too. Oh and live insects to feed them. Boxes of them. Big black ones.
I went in search of the Upriver cafe which is supposed to be a cafe and funky gallery. Took ages to find it and I got distracted by intriguing alleys and stalls. I was dying for the toilet but when I got there it looked like a proper restaurant and they didn't have a clue when I tried to ask if they served for tea, cha etc. So had to hold my legs together until I found this lovely Stone park cafe in this lovely building and had Taurus tea no less. And with lovely toilets, you could only smell the cleaning agents. After that I ended up buying tea in a lovely teashop across the road and bought some of the local yunnan black tea and some Pearl Jasmine. I had tastings of the various options and got Yunnan tea that apparently lasts for 7 years but was really good and er not cheap. 10 Euros per 100g. eek. Of course after drinking all that tea... So I went in search of dinner and ended up in the City cafe which was nice but very western in some respects but it was near my hotel where I had left my bag. After that it was off to the train for Dali. I had gotten the last soft sleeper and my 3 Chinese roomates were really nice.
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