Photos, Kunming, and goodbye China

We left Emeishan on an overnight train to the city of Kunming, capital of the Yunnan province. From here we are taking an overnight bus to the Chinese-Vietnamese boarder town of Hekou. We were afraid that Kunming would be just another crowded, smoggy, rude Chinese city... but we were very very wrong. The sky is blue, things are inexpensive, and there is some amazing shopping streets selling everything from tea and jade to nunchucks... we haven't found a justifiable reason to buy said nunchucks yet... but we're working on it.
I finally managed to find an Internet connection that would let me upload photos... so here are three different series of photos from our trip. Enjoy!

Photos of Beijing

Photos of Xi'an and Chengdu

Photos of Emishan

Our bus trip to the Vietnamese boarder should take about 10 hours... putting us in about 6am on the 19th. The boarder opens at 7am... and hopefully crossing won't be too much trouble. From there we will probably go to the mountain town of Sapa for their market with wares from the small bands of hill tribe people that live in the area. Then it is down to Hanoi, then Halong Bay... and then another destination that has yet to be decided.