Attractions of Yunnan-Tibet Highway – Kunming

Attractions of Yunnan-Tibet Highway – Kunming Introduction

Kunming City is the well known historical city of China and it is the No. 4 largest city of western China. It is the connection center of the economy, culture, education, scientific and transportation of Yunnan Province. It is the central city and one of the tourism and commercial cities of west part of China along Yunnan-Tibet Highway.

As the comfortable climate and weather, it is not very cold in winter or hot in summer, either. It is a typical temperate climate. The temperature of city center is 0-29?. The annual temperature difference is the least in China. Therefore Kunming is also famous for the fame of "Spring City".

Attractions of Yunnan-Tibet Highway – Kunming Transportation

Acted as the provincial capital of Yunnan Province, Kunming City is one of the transportation centers of southern China, too. All of the railways, highways and airlines are well developed and highly advanced. The railways include Shanghai-Kunming Railway, Chengdu – Kunming Railway, Inner Mongolia – Kunming Railway, Kunming – Lijiang Railway, Kunming – Yushu Railway, and Kunming – Henan Railway and so on.

The airport is located in the northeast part of Kunming City, about 24.5 kilometers far from the city center. It is named Kunming Changshui International Airport. It is a little far from the city center and the terminal is so large that the airport check-in counter would be closed half an hour the airplane take off. You'd better depart from the city center 2 hours in advance.

Besides, there are major 5 long-distance passenger stations in Kunming City, they are respectively Eastern long-distance passenger station, Southern long-distance passenger station, western long-distance passenger station, North long-distance passenger station and northwestern long-distance passenger station.

Attractions of Yunnan-Tibet Highway – Kunming Climate

Kunming City is located in the lower northern latitude subtropics plateau mountain monsoon climate zone. The duration of sunshine is longer but the frost season is short. The annual average temperature is about 15?. The climate is gentle and the weather is very comfortable even in summer and winter. The flowers blossom the whole year round. And it is highly praised as the ideal scenic spot in China.

Attractions of Yunnan-Tibet Highway – Kunming Food

We highly recommend you the rice noodles in Kunming City, as it is also very famous in China. It costs only 10-20 RMB per person in general. One bowl of the rice noodle with more than 10 dishes of meet, cucumber, egg, and pickled vegetable, etc, tastes very delicious.

Attractions of Yunnan-Tibet Highway – Kunming Highlights

Stone Forest is one of the highlights of Kunming City. It is a 270-million-year-old limestone karst formation and a natural wonder acknowledged as "World Karst Landscape Museum" so that you could figure out a variety of unique shapes of the stones such as sword, mushrooms, tower, and pillar, etc.

Attractions of Yunnan-Tibet Highway – Kunming Temple Fair

The temple fair usually held in Lunar lunar January 9th. Many people would like to gather in the Golden Temple to burn joss sticks and pray. In the mean time, many splendid local performances will be held at that time, too.