Friday, 24 February 2012

Day 50 Kunming

If 50 days on holiday is a milestone we hit it today. Does it feel
like we've been away 50 days, of course not but as we were finding
this hostel and two American girls heading the same place asked where
we had been & I rattled it off I'm sure their interest had ended
before my list so we have done a bit in the time passed.
It was visa day with a grand plan of arriving there early, well after
breakfast & inconvenience of trying a number of banks before moolah
was given out it was after 10am. We still managed the same day service
at 535yuan each a 145yuan premium on the three day service.
We took a bit of a flyer on our destination for today the LP was a bit
vague on it just saying an ancient town get off at last bus stop. It
wasn't the last stop so we walked back to it, but it was nice &
traditional buildings were great.
We have been to far more remote less touristy villages but the photos
& constant staring seemed a bit much here.
Visa collected, Nam is a go. We were there early to collect it and
they said no not till after 5pm because the general is coming to sign
them from Hanoi..... There were maybe 4 people working in the visa
office and at 5pm the passports started getting handed out. Perhaps
the general had his own secret lift since we didn't see him come in
but we were slightly annoyed we were there a little early and keen to
get home, they could probably saved the lie and just given us our
passports back.

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