Wednesday 6th September 2006 Today we visited the Longji rice terraces, also called the Dragon Backbone Terraces. The journey on a very mini minibus took around 4 hours. The worst toilet observation happened at the toilet stop on the way. Luckily I’d (Sam) limited my liquid intake and didn’t really need to go, but was going to go ‘just in case’, however the toilets were in the pig trough, communal, no doors, just line up and squat style, which I had been warned existed but was yet to see. They are angled so that all waste runs away! Suffice to say I didn’t use them. On a more pleasant note, approach to the terraces and the terraces themselves were as amazing as we’d hoped. We had a guide, which is essential in this part of Longji,
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