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Asia » China » Guangxi » Longji Rice Terraces March 11th 2009

Yesterday we took a daytrip tour to the rice fields on the dragons backbone mountain range, ping'an and a local minority village where we saw a show of local dancing and the marriage ceremony, our guide was very funny and gave lots of information in chinese and english which was brilliant as we only paid for the local guide who we were told had no english, he told us countless times not to get lost as the bus would not wait for us and we would have to get the local bus back to guilin! In the minority village bum pinching is a way to show affection to anyone so all the locals where pinching everybodys bum and if you pinched back it meant you wanted to stay the night at the village, the women here ... read more
Us at the rice field
Rice Fields 2
Long Hair!

Asia » China » Guangxi » Longji Rice Terraces February 10th 2009

Days 24-25 Longji Terraces Day 24 our journey continues by local bus, as we cross the ancestral home of many of Southeast Asia's minority hilltribes to reach the Longji Valley (approx. 6 hours). Known as the Dragon's Backbone, this region is a remarkable feat of engineering, with rice terraces covering entire mountainsides. On day 25 we take a day-long hike through the Longji Valley to visit local hilltribe communities and learn about village life. This region boasts some of the most extensive rice terraces you'll ever see, and the fields change with the seasons, going from iridescent in spring, to green in summer, gold in autumn and white with snow in winter. WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED WHEN WE GET CHANCE SO DON'T FORGET TO KEEP CHECKING BACK!!!!!! ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Longji Rice Terraces September 25th 2008

Like they say, time flies when you're having fun. My time in China ran out quickly, and I can't believe that soon now I will be home, seeing familiar faces and places, except they will be different, because I will have changed. I have returned to Japan, to gather my thoughts and my things before embarking on home. But now I fear that coming home will be more difficult than any of the random obstacles which I've faced in my travels. My last days in China were pretty packed with things to do and places to go. I had wanted for a long time to make a trek up to Longsheng to see the world famous Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces, meticulously carved staircases of rice which ascend into the clouds as if they were formed by ... read more
playing dress up
getting ready for their photo shoot
at the summit with the students

Asia » China » Guangxi » Longji Rice Terraces July 14th 2008

(Day 101 on the road)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 checking our very extremely undetailed map ("Not to scale" - nice), we nevertheless decided to get off the bus about halfway to Ping'an, really in the middle of nowhere. And this ... read more
Longji Rice Terraces 2
Longji Rice Terraces 3
At the funeral

Asia » China » Guangxi » Longji Rice Terraces June 29th 2008

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 the Pingan side. Beautiful vista of water-filled fields, the rice spears all about half-grown, the hills going down steeply in contours. I continued onwards, not hurrying. Along the way I met local ladies wanting to ... read more
Longji Scenic Area
Longji Scenic Area
Longji Scenic Area

Asia » China » Guangxi » Longji Rice Terraces June 20th 2008

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 the terraces so it was a little disconcerting not being able to see, or maybe better that we couldn't see! En route we stopped at the obligatory local village and saw a traditional Yao tribe ... read more

Asia » China » Guangxi » Longji Rice Terraces June 16th 2008

After a white knuckle high speed race through winding roads overlooking lofty views of instant death, we arrived at the Longji Rice Terraces. We would stay in two different villages during our time at the rice terraces, each accessible by several hours of mostly uphill trekking. The heat was stifling, and in no time at all I was a sweaty mess! The journey was definitely worth it though; we passed by farmers tilling the land by hand or ploughing knee deep through the paddy fields with the aid of an oxen. The views of the landscape were spectacular when high enough to fully appreciate it; the water gathered in the paddy fields glistened and shone in the sunshine, the brilliant reflective surfaces broken up by banks of green cut into the hillside staggered down the face ... read more
Meeting Local Children
Ploughing the Land by Oxen
Cultural Show by Local Women

Asia » China » Guangxi » Longji Rice Terraces November 17th 2007

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 hebben we dan toch een klein restaurantje gevonden waar we voor een halve euro een kom soep, een groentenschotel en een kom rijst kregen. Vanmorgen vroeg opgestaan om naar de Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces te ... read more
Namiddagzonnetje
Aardappelvrouwtje
En de koe zag dat het goed was

Asia » China » Guangxi » Longji Rice Terraces October 4th 2007

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 bergen en na elke bocht heb je weer een ander uitzicht. Hier wonen de Yao. Zij hebben deze rijstterrassen ooit aangelegd. 600 jaar geleden was dat. De velden starten op 350m hoogte en lopen door tot 850m hoogte. De bergen zijn ... read more
Dame met de lange haren (opgerold op het hoofd)
Nog meer rijstterrassen bij Longji
Engels blijft moeilijk

Asia » China » Guangxi » Longji Rice Terraces October 3rd 2007

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 waren de enige niet-chinese toeristen en werden veelvuldig op de foto gezet. Soms stiekem maar ook poserend met leden van de familie. Als we geld hadden gevraagd was onze vakantie grotendeels betaald. De Dong minderheid is in deze ... read more
Begroeting met zoete wijn
Zang en dans
Bruiloftstoet met allerlei geschenken




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