01 Kunming - Dali

24th October 2025 - Flying to Kunming China via Bangkok

Our group of 10 met at Kolkata airport around 11pm on 23rd October to check-in to our Thai Airways flight departing at 2 am on 24th October an early morning flight.

We transited through Bangkok with a few hours wait time and landed at Kunming around 2:00pm in the afternoon. Clearing Immigration, we ended up in the beautiful and shiny Kunming Airport Terminal . . . waiting for our airport pickup bus sent by our Kunming Hotel eCharm. 

We reached hotel by 4pm and were met by Jamyang, our Guide and Soham our Driver that evening around 8:30pm. They too stayed in same hotel.

25th October 2025 we drove to Dali 

After breakfast, we boarded our 15-seater Van and drove towards Dali. On the way we made a few stops for Restroom and reached Dali by 4:00pm. We stayed in a nice hotel in the Old Town area.

In the evening, we walked to the Dali Lakeside promenade, which was quite crowded, with lots of Chines Tourists from various regions. Lots of fun activities were oing on there; including musicians singing and young couples dressed-up in fancy dresses for photo shoots!

Later in the evening after it was dark, we walked to the Old Town Dali which was again crowded and milling with people, to see the lit up streets and neon-lit shops and street side stalls and food vendors.  It was a quite a festive atmosphere!