A Beijing white-collar worker solved the problem of how to get home to Kunming, Yunnan Province for the holidays by booking tickets which involve making a stopover in Bangkok, Laodong News reported.

The worker made the unusual travel arrangements after finding train tickets hard to come by and direct flights prohibitively expensive during China's Spring Festival travel peak season.

The foreign detour, despite being time consuming, may actually save money, as tickets for both legs of the journeys are abundant.

(China.org.cn January 10, 2012)

據《勞動報》報道，北京一名白領通過“借道”曼谷，解決了春節返回昆明家鄉的麻煩。

這名白領發現，購買春運期間的火車票困難、直飛機票異常昂貴之后，制定了這個不尋常的旅行安排。

繞道外國，盡管耗時更久，其實花費更少，因為兩段航程的機票均供應充裕。