Well have started this journal a number of times and the computer has crashed so will just see how this one goes.
After a 5 hour bus trip we arrived back from Dali and had planned to stay in a hostel near Green Lake. We hadn't booked but had a brochure. We took a taxi right there and little did we know but it had closed down. So we checked our guide and found another place around the area, a little more expensive and set out on foot to find it.
After one hour we decided that the map was wrong and we couldn't find the university let alone the hotel we would once again cab it. We arrived at this hotel for it to be double the price that the guide book said- out of our price range. This sets the scene for a fairly frustrating 5 following days.
We cabbed back into the town area and chose a well known guesthouse near where we had stayed before. Basically we found Kunming to just be a big city with not much substance. The people weren't at all friendly or helpful (mostly).
We spent alot of time not achieving very much and when we did some things weren't that pleasant. Take the zoo for example. What a hideous, depressing place. The animals aren't kept very well. Anyway just not nice. By the end of Kunming we were busting to leave.
The best part of the place was the lake which was bustling with life and was very pleasant to walk around.
