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Travel Blogs from Longji, China
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Steps, moon radicals and dictionaries.
This is a top pick! ... was completely amazing and humbling to think about. We eventually reached the village of Longji, which was situated right at the edge of the frostline. It was around lunchtime when we entered the ...
Longji Terraced Rice Fields
This is a top pick! The Longji Terraces are located in Longsheng County about 2 hours from Guilin . The rice terraces are built into the hillsides. The terraces look like great chains or ribbons as they wind from the foot to the top of the hill. This ingenious construction ...
Dragon Back Rice Terrace vs Fog
We decided that since we had a day to kill, we would check out the Dragon Back Rice Terrace north of Guilin, as our hostel (En Attendant Godot) had the cheapest deal by far with it only costing something like 130RMB each, and after the tour we could be ...
Rice hike
... came into the guesthouse for dinner, and he joined in the card game. He was a young English guy who had been teaching English in China for 11 months, and was now travelling around having finished his work. Very brave, I thought. He joined us while we ate ...
More rice than you can shake a (chop)stick at
The famous rice terraces of Longji awaited us after many more bus rides. These rice terraces took over 700 years to complete and flow around the mountain, creating a beautiful (and practical) setting. Climbing the steps up the steep mountain ...
Rice, Rice and more Rice
Bus ride to the Longji rice terraces. This is our penultimate stop. Trekking in the rice terraces. We trekked up to village that we were staying in as it was not possible to drive directly to the hostel. A hard 30 min trek up to the hostel. The communal ...
Ping'An - The Longji Rice Terraces
... 'An – The Longji Rice Terraces After the relaxing time in Yangshao we decided to venture out of the city and head up the Longji Rice Terraces. The rice terraces were built hundreds of years ago into the hill sides to make use of the scarce land and ...
The bumpiest road in the world
We left Chengyang early in a minivan to go to the Longji rice terraces. The road between Sanjiang and Longji was ... the bumpiest road in the world! Apparently the government have been building this road for the past two years, so it's in the middle of ...
Rice Terraces
Since we exhausted the train travel options for China, our next mode of transportation was local buses. Needless to say, no one on the trip was excited for the next leg, but our fears proved much worse than reality. We boarded a mini-bus back to Yanshuo ...
Out to the Beautiful Longji Rice Terraces
... . I have a really nice English-speaking guide who's been explaining some interesting facts about the Yao Zu (Yao Minority in China), one of the minorities we're going to visit. Apparently they cut their hair at 18, which they always keep and ...
Peaceful little rice fields...
The rice fields were magnificent. Pity about the rain as we had ALOT of it whilst there but nonetheless a few of us decided to trek through the mud and slippery stones for 4 hours to the next village...great times! By far the most fun was legal ...
Longji
... hair/skin off. It was quite a site. We hike for about 20 minutes before we reached the top of the Longji Terraces. There were terraced fields all up the mountain side in perfect harmony and fashion. It took over ...
Trekking through the ricefields!
... slippery conditions so we realised how lucky we had been the previous day! I would actually recommend the Longji Rice Terraces to anyone visiting rural China - the hike actually WAS worth the effort and I certainly felt good after the exercise (not ...
The Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces
Got up early on the 7th and packed our day bags for the trip to Longji. The plan was to get a bus to the Yao minority village, Dazhai where we were going to stay a night then do a 4- 5hr trek the following day through the rice terraces to ...
Wandering Mountain Rice Terraces
... . Ended up getting a nice beef fried rice though given Im in China I have to wander if its got MSG in it for flavouring. Longji - Day 2 - Walk to and back from Ping'an Suppose to be a nice walk with and easy enough trail between Dazhai and Ping'an. ...
Slippery When Wet!
When we booked the days walk round the rice terraces we had envisaged a n ice gentle stroll along a level path with maybe a little up and down occasionally - not a walk which rivalled some of the days in Nepal! Whilst there were a few flat sections ...
To Longji
Another travel day and we're heading higher and even colder. Our destination Longji Terraces 1916m above sea-level. Described as a must see destination for any International visitor. After the bus journeys a couple of days ago things could only go down ...
Experience the villages ... part II
More touristy, but still filled with small villages, we arrived at Longji, famous for its extensive rice terraces. After a smooth bus ride and a really one (kinda made me miss the first on in Cambodia) we arrived at Ping An Village. The weather was ...
Strairway to heaven
Longji Terraced Fields is in the Heping town in Longsheng, a 2 hours drive from Guilin. The terraced rice fields, like ladders, wind from the bottom of the mountain to the top. The elevation varies from 380 meters to 880 meters with a drop of 500 meters. ...
Two Tribes
... hillside in sedan chairs suspended between two local men so we don’t feel quite as lazy. The rice terraces are centred round Longji and cover an area of 70 square km and are called the Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces. As its getting close to ...
Longji Rice Terraces
Headed up to the rice terraces for a couple of days trekking. Bucketed Rain - it was ...
Way up in the mountains
... a lady walked up and said she had a bus leaving for Ping An so off we went. Ping An is a small village located in the Longji Rice Terraces. This is all located way up in the mountains. It is a pretty incredible place. The bus can not get all the ...
Dragons Backbone Rice Terraces
After our 2 hour bus ride to the famous Longji Rice Terraces, we got dropped off at Dazhai Village at around 12pm. I thought it was the last time we'd be climbing up anymore stairs since Mt. Emeishan. Oh how I was wrong. It was a further 1.5 hr walk ...
Bamboo rafting, biking and hiking in Guangxi
... was instructed (so it's not just for the aristocracy after all!). Our journey continued up the mountain to the base of the Longji terraced rice fields. Here we left the car and walked through the lanes of the village of Dazhai before continuing on a ...
It's called the Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces
... in a 4X, so were were light enough to cross over safely. Finally we arrived in San Jiang, where we quickly boarded a bus to LongJi Ping An Terraces, a very short trip. When we arrived at the Terraces entry, we were met by a hoard of porters who ...
I am the Lizard King
On the bus ride back to Guilin Richard decided to change his own plans and join me, I was off to the Dragons Backbone rice terraces. From Guilin, we had to catch a bus to the transit town of Longsheng before getting another bus to one of the villages ...
The rice terraces of Longji
... ; The Longji rice terraces were begun about 700 years ago and it took generations and generations to complete them. The name Longji translates as Dragon's Backbone and this is a good way of describing them as the hillsides almost look like the ...
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