Heads up: some links here are affiliate links. Book or buy through them and we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only point you to things we would actually use. A 7-Day Kunming Itinerary on a Budget Seven days takes the 6-day itinerary and slots in one more free-to-cheap day, a mosque and two Tang-dynasty pagodas, before the same onward train to Dali. Running total roughly...

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Heads up: some links here are affiliate links. Book or buy through them and we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only point you to things we would actually use. A 6-Day Kunming Itinerary on a Budget Six days takes the 5-day itinerary in full and adds Kunming’s real role for most travellers: a springboard, not a closed loop. The last day is a train out to Dali, honestly...

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Heads up: some links here are affiliate links. Book or buy through them and we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only point you to things we would actually use. A 4-Day Kunming Itinerary on a Budget Four days takes the 3-day itinerary in full and adds a last free-to-cheap day, museum and garden instead of another paid sight. Running total roughly RMB 450-550 per person on a...

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Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek: what happened, and what a visit costs Between 17 April 1975 and early January 1979, the Khmer Rouge, under Pol Pot, ruled Cambodia and killed an estimated 1.7 to 2.2 million people, roughly a quarter of the population, through execution, starvation, forced labor, and disease. The exact toll is debated; the scale is not. Tuol Sleng (S-21) in Phnom Penh and Choeung Ek just...

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