Kunming is so beautiful, filled with fragrant flowers. Besides appreciating beauty, it is also essential to enjoy shopping, now Top China Travel will introduce characteristic shopping streets in Kunming, enjoy the fun of shopping streets in these characteristics streets.
Special Shopping Streets
• Wenhua lane--Wenlin Street
This area is very suitable for hanging out. Wenhua Lane (cultural lane) has a name of "Foreigner Street" in Kunming, because it brings together the people of different nationalities to enjoy coffee, enjoy sunshine here, so here has the unique cultural atmosphere. There are quite a lot special shops, quite famous shop is like cornfield bookstore; and Nana Shop which will catch people’s eye is a handmade crafts shop. “Quiet Garden in Heart” is an elegant boutiques where is enough to become a good place for you to enjoy life and taste of food, it is really very comfortable.
• Huancuihu Road—Shuncheng Wangfujing Shopping Center
Huancuihu Road is a suitable place to slow down, no matter from which alley, the streets to here, people will soon feel a green and quiet environment. There are a row of characteristics shops besides the main entrance of Cuihu Lake, such as teahouse, galleries, and craft shops, where full of various goods. When you walked out of the Huancuihu road, you will go through an alley, there is a suitable new city Wangfujing shopping center, recommended on the second floor there is a very interesting household life museum, specialize in high quality and exquisite articles for daily use.
Famous Shopping Streets
• Golden Horse & Jade Chicken SquareLocation: At Jinbi Lu
What to buy: handcrafts, souvenir
As a landmark of Kunming, the Golden Horse & Jade Chicken Archway is a traditional piece of architecture. The emblem of the city of Kunming is composed of a golden horse and a jade chicken. It was designed according to a popular legend about Dianchi Lake.
Golden Horse & Jade Chicken Archway is not only a place that you can see the fantastic facet of Kunming. The area around it called Golden Horse & Jade Chicken Square is also a commercial center for tourists as well as locals. Here many stores offer handcrafts of various nationalities.
Do not be anxious to find the way there. When you refer to the Golden Horse & Jade Chicken Square, locals will immediately tell you the right way. This landmark is a significant site to them. The civilization contained in this place will cover a splendid color on this ancient architecture.
• Nanping Shopping Mall
Location: Nan Ping Street, Wu Hua Area, Kunming
What to buy: commodities, electrics, local Snacks
Nanping Shopping Mall has become a new landmark of Kunming city that not only attracts a large number of local residents as well as tourists.
Investors of Nanping Shopping Mall spent heavily to reproduce the scenes of this old walking. And put some folk art statues to promote the historical and cultural charm of Kunming. Today’s Nanping Shopping Mall enjoys a reputation of "Southwest First Street". Shopping in this street, you can feel the mixture of the Kunming’s history, culture and innovation.
Modern Kunming can be found here. Fashionable Kunming also can be found here. Nanping Shopping Mall is a symbol to represent the well development of Kunming. Walking around it, you may be attracted by the numerous goods range from the elaborate local handicrafts to the latest stylish clothes.
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