South China - Lonsgsheng Rice Terraces 2nd -4th September

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After our scenic resting in Yangshuo we travelled up to the rice terraces near Longsheng. We opted for a guest house up in the mountains which involved a couple of bus rides and a good hours hike up to about 1500m. We were assisted ably by the Yao women who live and work in these mountains. Tough ladies with a keen desire to sell you touristy trinkets. Refusal is futile.

As you can see from the pics the mountains were very misty but still stunningly impressive. This is possibly the most amazing feat of human engineering we've seen, better than the Great Wall in our humble opinion. The terraces stretch way up into the clouds. It was a restful few days and nice opportunity to meet Teresa, from the UK, who was travelling on her own having hiked the Himalayas.

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Photos

The village's oldest man.
Taken from afar as he smoked his early morning pipe.

Photo 16
Sima poses with the Yao ladies. They hold the record for the village with longest hair in teh world.

Left to right
Teresa, Hannah (who ran the guest house), Duncan and Sima

Longsheng Markets
Things in buckets that croaked and squeaked.

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[Jon]

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Keep them coming. It's nice to know somebody somewhere's not sitting watching the FTSE and its pals fall on their arses. I should stay there if I were you!!... :) Jon