Sunday, July 5, 2009

Photos from around Kunming

Lobby of the hotel where I lived

Funky mural in the lobby

Woman who worked at the desk, very nice, very shy

Hotel from the outside

The campus

Laundry drying in the cherry trees outside the hotel

Supermarket across from the side gate near our dorm

The side gate

The street in front of the side gate (jianshe lu)

The skybridge at the intersection of Jianshe Lu and Yi Er Yi Dajie

Gate to the main Buddhist temple in town. I actually never got to go inside, but I heard it was pretty run-of-the-mill.

Weird block of chalk writing

Walking the streets of Kunming

One of the many ceremonial gates scattered around the center of town

The gate to the old Confucian temple, now a park. The temple was gutted during the Cultural Revolution.

A memorial to martyrs of the civil war

The puppy mart! Cute/depressing!

See, Archos is big!

Central square of Kunming

I only eat things baked by professionals

A teahouse in old Kunming

The buildings of old Kunming. Unfortunately, this area was demolished while I was here.

Selling birds in the ruins of Old Kunming


Set for demolition

The streets of Old Kunming

Kunming's central mosque

The restaurant inside the mosque


The central sanctuary

More mosque

Yunnan Normal University campus

Cherry trees in bloom

Main gate of the university

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