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How to Travel Dali - Kunming?
I'm planning a trip to Yunnan province, China, and am wondering how to
go between Dali and Kunming. Most of the tours use air, but we may have a car and driver in Dali and it might be simpler just to get them to drive us. Does that make any sense? |
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How to Travel Dali - Kunming?
Walt Bilofsky wrote:
I'm planning a trip to Yunnan province, China, and am wondering how to go between Dali and Kunming. Most of the tours use air, but we may have a car and driver in Dali and it might be simpler just to get them to drive us. Does that make any sense? no worries. there are frequent departures to and from both places. easy as pie doing it on your own. however, if you have asthma and money to burn you might want to arrange your own transport as smoking is notorious. |
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How to Travel Dali - Kunming?
In article , Walt Bilofsky
says... I'm planning a trip to Yunnan province, China, and am wondering how to go between Dali and Kunming. Most of the tours use air, but we may have a car and driver in Dali and it might be simpler just to get them to drive us. Does that make any sense? Flights between Dali and Kunming are cheap and plentiful. I'd take a flight, instead of spending hours in a car. -- Alfred Molon http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe |
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How to Travel Dali - Kunming?
Hi, Alfred -
Thanks for your reply. I always appreciate your sharing your vast experience of Asia. Here's what I was thinking. We will probably have a bunch of luggage (if the shopping is good) and we both get motion sickness, so if we fly I'd probably take a pill and be zonked. By the time we get to the airport (18 miles north of Dali) an hour and a half before the flight, wait for the plane, wait for the likely delays, get off, get our baggage, get ground transportation - we've invested between three and four hours. A car would take four or five hours. And there might be something to see en route. What do you think? Regards, Walt Alfred Molon wrote: In article , Walt Bilofsky says... I'm planning a trip to Yunnan province, China, and am wondering how to go between Dali and Kunming. Most of the tours use air, but we may have a car and driver in Dali and it might be simpler just to get them to drive us. Does that make any sense? Flights between Dali and Kunming are cheap and plentiful. I'd take a flight, instead of spending hours in a car. |
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How to Travel Dali - Kunming?
In article , Walt Bilofsky
says... Here's what I was thinking. We will probably have a bunch of luggage (if the shopping is good) and we both get motion sickness, so if we fly I'd probably take a pill and be zonked. By the time we get to the airport (18 miles north of Dali) an hour and a half before the flight, wait for the plane, wait for the likely delays, get off, get our baggage, get ground transportation - we've invested between three and four hours. A car would take four or five hours. And there might be something to see en route. If you suffer from motion sickness, it is better if you fly, because the road between Dali and Kunming passes through the mountains. By the way, the airport is south of Dali in Xiaguan. It is sufficient to be at the airport one hour before and Chinese flights usually are on time. Also, according to the LP the bus trip between Kunming and Dali takes eight hours. A car will likely be faster, but the trip might still take six hours. In any case, it all depends on how you like to travel. There are people who prefer to fly, others who prefer to travel overland. -- Alfred Molon http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe |
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How to Travel Dali - Kunming?
Alfred Molon wrote:
Also, according to the LP the bus trip between Kunming and Dali takes eight hours. A car will likely be faster, but the trip might still take six hours. Alfred, is that an old LP? My '06 Frommer's says there is a new expressway and it takes 4-5 hours by bus. I don't believe the 4 hours, but he web site at http://www.sinohotelguide.com/kunming/tour/trans.html lists most busses as 5 or 6 hours, although there is a sleeper for 9 hours. Also a discussion at lonelyplanet.com confirms 5 hours by bus. http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/me...&iCountryId=84 Best regards, Walt |
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How to Travel Dali - Kunming?
In article , Walt Bilofsky
says... Alfred, is that an old LP? Yes. My '06 Frommer's says there is a new expressway and it takes 4-5 hours by bus. I don't believe the 4 hours, but he web site at http://www.sinohotelguide.com/kunming/tour/trans.html lists most busses as 5 or 6 hours, although there is a sleeper for 9 hours. Also a discussion at lonelyplanet.com confirms 5 hours by bus. http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/me...&iCountryId=84 Interesting. How fast things change in China. This is a country developing at "Shenzhen speed". -- Alfred Molon http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe |
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How to Travel Dali - Kunming?
"Alfred Molon" wrote in message ... In article , Walt Bilofsky says... Alfred, is that an old LP? Yes. My '06 Frommer's says there is a new expressway and it takes 4-5 hours by bus. I don't believe the 4 hours, but he web site at http://www.sinohotelguide.com/kunming/tour/trans.html lists most busses as 5 or 6 hours, although there is a sleeper for 9 hours. Also a discussion at lonelyplanet.com confirms 5 hours by bus. http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/me...&iCountryId=84 Interesting. How fast things change in China. This is a country developing at "Shenzhen speed". -- Alfred Molon http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe Went last year from Kunming to Dali by bus, was indeed approx 5 hours.Depends on the bus you take. The road is really good, with less curves than the road from Dali to Yangshuo, which is quite bad if your suffering from motionsickness. It looks like it was a new highway with no traffic at all on it, which is quite strange.. Maus |
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