April 18 Tengchong to Kunming

Another bus ride, another adventure. The bus trip from Tengchong to Kunming was supposed to be 11 hours. The first 3 hours we covered 150km through 2 mountain passes and a police check. Then we hit the autoroute. We arrived in Kunming 30 minutes early. The scenery was good. Several 4,000-meter mountains at the start. Terraced fields running up the mountainside in the lower mountains and bright red soil everywhere. The autoroute was brand new and featured several bridges and tunnels. Most tunnels were over 300 meters in length and the longest was 3 km. This was the first Chinese autoroute we have seen and it was impressive. Not that fast because of the slow vehicles but the best road surface we’ve seen in Asia.