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An overnight train ride from the karst peaks of Zhangjiajie away lies a different world altogether, the rice terraces of Longji (The "Dragons's Backbone"). After a stopover in Guilin to visit the local PSB-office to apply for a visa extension for me (more on that later on, see next blog-entry), backing up our pictures and buying a camera battery for Karen, we headed to the village Longsheng for the night. The next day we took the bus towards Ping'an, a well established tourist-town who sees the majority of visitors that come to the area to see the amazing rice terraces. After [View Full Entry]

LivingTheDream - Ben Beiske | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 4 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=299429] | 2008-07-16 18:19:43

Longji Rice Terraces 2
Longji Rice Terraces 3
At the funeral

Longji Scenic Area
Longji Scenic Area
Sunrise at Dragon's Backbone rice terraces.
It’s an hour bus ride from Guilin to Longsheng, then another 30 or 40 minutes up to Longji Scenic area and a 10 minute climb up to Pingan village. You come here to visit the rice terraces called “Dragon’s Backbone” and they’re amazing. The morning after I arrived I ate a large bowl of noodle soup containing chicken pieces and tomatoes for breakfast, then set off, destination Dazhai village on the other side of the hills. The trail was good, flat paving stones of light-coloured rock and at first it went up a bit steeply to Scenic Lookout No. 1 on [View Full Entry]

ADB - Dennis Brougham | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 6 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=293384] | 2008-07-05 12:54:59

Longji Scenic Area
Longji Scenic Area
Longji Scenic Area

We set off early from Yangshou to drive three hours to see the amazing Longji terraced rice fields high in the mountains. Our bus driver was a horn enthusiast and used it frequently and repeatedly, even when there was only a lone motorbike to overtake. Even with my ipod on full volume I couldn't drown out the shrill sound. It was a hazy and rainy day and as we neared our destination visibility got so bad that we could only see as far as the side of the road. We'd heard that there were lots of landslides on the way to [View Full Entry]

Wanny - Dan B | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=289523] | 2008-06-20 09:18:09


Dag allemaal, Heel erg bedankt voor alle reacties en mailtjes die we krijgen! Het is echt leuk om van jullie allemaal te horen! Gisterenochtend zijn we uit Yangshuo vertrokken. Omdat we sowieso van bus moesten veranderen in Guilin vonden we het een leuk idee om daar even een kijkje te nemen. We hebben er enkele uurtjes rondgewandeld en dan de bus genomen naar Longsheng, zo'n anderhalf uur met de bus in noordelijke richting. De nachtmarkt zou er volgens onze reisgids "very lively" zijn, maar de stank was er - zelfs naar Chinese normen - echt niet te harden. Na enkele omzwervingen [View Full Entry]

Yves en Anne - Yves en Anne | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 15 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=220330] | 2007-11-17 12:29:33

Namiddagzonnetje
Aardappelvrouwtje
En de koe zag dat het goed was

By JohnandFrank
October 4th 2007

Longji

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Gelukkig was gisteren de top toeristische dag. Vandaag was het een stuk rustiger. Het blijft wel een kermis hier met elke avond vuurwerk maar het is de moeite waard. Het plaatsje waar we verblijven is eigenlijk Pintan. Alle boeren die hier ooit rijst teelden hebben op hun stukje grond een hotel gebouwd toen duidelijk was dat de rijstterrassen een toeristische trekpleister werden. Vanochtend hebben we samen met onze gids een wandeling gemaakt tussen de rijstterrassen door. Eerst naar de top van de berg. Een fascinerend lijnenspel trok aan ons voorbij. De rijstterrassen beslaan hier complete [View Full Entry]

JohnandFrank - John van Dijk & Frank Schotel | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 3 Comment(s) | 4 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=200184] | 2007-10-04 13:12:01

Dame met de lange haren (opgerold op het hoofd)
Nog meer rijstterrassen bij Longji
Engels blijft moeilijk

By JohnandFrank
October 3rd 2007

Chengyang

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Gisteren hoefden we niet te reizen. We zijn in Chengyang gebleven. Tegen elkaar aan liggen allerlei kleine Dong dorpjes. Daar hebben we een groot deel van de ochtend samen met onze gids doorheen gewandeld. Toen we in het eerste dorp aankwamen werden we verwelkomd door een grote groep locals in klederdracht met zoete wijn. Vanwege de nationale feestweek rond 1 oktober was er veel te doen: zang en dans, een nepbruiloft met veel knetterend vuurwerk en allerlei oude ambachten. Natuurlijk om de vele Chinese toeristen te bekoren. Nieuw voor ons was dat ook wij een bezienswaardigheid waren. Wij w [View Full Entry]

JohnandFrank - John van Dijk & Frank Schotel | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 8 Comment(s) | 4 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=200179] | 2007-10-03 13:36:50

Begroeting met zoete wijn
Zang en dans
Bruiloftstoet met allerlei geschenken

I was very excited about going to Guilin to see the nearby rice terraces. I had seen amazing pictures and I was looking forward to checking them out for myself. The rice terraces of Ping An are over 600 years old, planted by the Yao and Zhuang minority groups. Longsheng is about two and a half hours away from Guilin. It's not far, but the drive there is tough we went down and up and around mountains. I wondered how tour busses get up the narrow road, Cherry told us halfway through, the people get off their tour bus and separate [View Full Entry]

SF Girl - C.F. | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 16 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=203495] | 2007-09-20 04:59:57

Drive to Longsheng
Fog, Fog, Fog
Look at it now!

Tarasy ryzowe
Tarasy ryzowe
Chinczyk pracujacy przy tarasach...
Z lijangu autobusem przejechalismy do Dali, kolejnego bardzo turystycznego miasteczka w Yunnanie. Mnie Dali podobalo sie bardziej niz Lijang, Pawlowi odwrotnie. Przyjemna starowka, europejski styl, mila odmiana. Po jednej nocy w Dali udalismy sie do stolicy Yunnanu, miasta Kunming i po kolejnej nocy wsiedlismy do pociagu do Guilinu (28 godzin:)). Zdecydowalismy sie tym razem na bilety w klasie Hard Sleeper - czyli lezanki. Komfort jazdy byl calkiem dobry, ale 28 godzin w pozycji lezacej, niezbyt pewne jedzenie, ogolne zmeczenie i chyba drobny kryzys spowodowaly, ze kolejne 2 dni byly dla mnie [View Full Entry]

MarcinM - Marcin Malesa | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=188103] | 2007-08-06 07:26:44

3 Pagody w Dali
Punkt widokowy
Dziewczyna z parasolka

Longsheng: Learning from our past mistakes, we hired a driver to take us three hours into the countryside to the Longji Rice Terraces. After winding high up into the hills, we came upon seemingly endless shelves that have been scalped over the centuries to maximize the arable land for farming rice. If you remove the tourists, this village appears to be identical to the way it must have been 5oo years ago. It reminded us of Cinque Terra for this exact reason. We spent several hours hiking through the middle of the terraces on the same stepping stone path that the [View Full Entry]

S and EM - The Vogels | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=190965] | 2007-08-10 16:07:21


Vi begav os mod Longshen i den nordvestlige del af Guanxi provinsen. Det gik af helt små snoede veje op gennem noget der virkede som en kinesisk regnskov, og førte os længere og længere ind i bjergene. Vi passerede adskillige små landsbyer, hvor lokalbefolkningen knoklede med husbyggeri eller landbrug. Efter hvert hårnålesving ventede endnu en flot udsigt over dalen, hvor mega bambusser rejste sig op langs bjergsiderne. Pludselig lød bilen som noget der skulle transportere brudepar, og der var ingen tvivl om, at udstødningen var faldet af. Den røg i bagagerummet, og så kørte vores chauffør ufo [View Full Entry]

Britta Claus - Britta Overgaard & Claus Busch | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 16 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=184172] | 2007-08-08 16:25:18

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