#58 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China ( Autumn Gold Harvest near Guilin): Photos 21 to 38

The day's drive toward the West from the beautiful garden city of Guilin in Guangxi Province, turned into the next unforgettable journey, through a part of South-China, where little has changed for a thousand years. Only recently has a better road opened the way for "voyeur-tourists" like me to visit one of Nature's Great Paintings. The Longji Titian (or aptly named Dragon Backbone Terraces of Longsheng) have always been a travel-destination wish, and I was fortunate to visit them just before the rice-harvest, as the sheath of each kernel turns gold.

We had rented a car, and were ready to explore the high ridges of the Rongshui River Valley and the surrounding countryside, dotted with Zhuang and Yao villages. All have remained quite virgin until the region opened to visitors only recently.

The passing and unforgettable panorama hypnotizes a traveller, with century old cultures, customs, and sights, that have only "worn" more beautiful with time. Along a steep range of high hills, one of mankind's great work-projects has been fuzed to the mountain sides, and kept productive for a millenium.

The "Long Ji Terraced Rice-Fields" have been constructed, maintained, and harvested by clans of the colorful Zhuang Miniority

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I don't know how you do it....I would have paid for the ride up!! :)

Your blogs seem to not stop amazing me. These pictures you take make you feel as if you were. It look as if you were in another world. The description you also write out are amazing. YOu should write a book on this.

hey schneider! i havent left you a comment in foreverrrrrr... and while i find myself drowning in hw for a certain english teacher, i could not wait any longer to send you a hello. as always, we are all thinking about you... i think you would be flattered to know how much we mention you and our memories of you in our daily lives. im still going to save a spot for you in my yearbook in case you decide to drop by before we go off to college. i cant even believe it is almost time... and you helped us get to his moment. keep posting... i learn so much about the world by just viewing your pictures. love always :)

hey schneider, im so glad to see your last login was today... everybody had gotten worried cause you hadnt posted a blog in a while. tell us how you're doing!