Hello! Did you think I'd dropped off the end of the world? (There are times when it's felt like I have)! I've been in distant territories, had lots of adventures, lots of experience, but sod all internet access!!!! After leaving Yangshou last week we set off, (via three bus transfers), to Longsheng, still very rural, but very different in landscape. Here the countryside is mountainous and forrested, with deep valleys, gorges and fast flowing rivers, where the local inhabitants live a mountain existance in villages hard to reach in any other form than on foot, and where the hillsides have been cut into to form terraces for rice growing. I had no idea what kind of treat we were in for, as I said we had to change busses a number of times, our final one,
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