Guilin---Longsheng (Or "Dragon Back" Rice Terraces), and the Yao People.
February 12th 2011 Longsheng (or literally, "the scales of a dragon's back") is fifty-six miles northwest of Guilin, so as you can imagine, it took quite a while to get there. On top of that, we had to drive up winding roads on the sides of the mountains, and my buddy Jake was car sick the entire time!
Longsheng was more than likely built during the Ming Dynasty (or atleast five hundred years ago), by the Zhuang
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