Guilin---Longsheng (Or "Dragon Back" Rice Terraces), and the Yao People.

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February 12th 2011

Published: February 12th 2011

Longsheng (or literally, "the scales of a dragon's back") is fifty-six miles northwest of Guilin, so as you can imagine, it took quite a while to get there. On top of that, we had to drive up winding roads on the sides of the mountains, and my buddy Jake was car sick the entire time! Longsheng was more than likely built during the Ming Dynasty (or atleast five hundred years ago), by the Zhuang pe... Read Full Entry

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Lindsay Dillon

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Graduated in 2011, in anthropology, Japanese and Chinese at Kansas State University. I also somewhat study Tibetan. I have a keen interest in Korean, Thai and Yucatec Maya language, dont ask why. :)) I'm constantly in awe of where these small hands have taken me, and of where my feet might be swept off to. And how such powerful everlasting messages of love and life, instilled in these opportunities, present themselves as an enormous gift to such a small frail and mortal body. I now better understand and appreciate the world's people, through my time as an expat overseas. I have traveled arou... full info

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