Live in Dazhai

Dragon´s Backbone Rice Terraces

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July 24th 2009
The plan was to go to the rice terraces at Ping´an. Although I heard Ping´an is very touristic and the rice terraces near the village of Dazhai were better, I wanted to go there because I thought it would be much harder to get a bus up to that village. From there, my plan was to walk to Dazhai and experience that part. In Guilin I had to find a bus to Longsheng, from which I would take the ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more