Longsheng, China Travel Blogs

Dragons backbone Rice Terraces
Jun 16, 2006 (22 photos)

From Guilin it was a two hour bus ride to a small town called Longsheng. This is not a tourist town, there is no reason to come here other than using it as an access point to the rice terraces. It has a population of about 170,000. The city is a colourful ...

Bizarro Kaifeng
Feb 2, 2008 (6 photos)

... ," she said with her no-nonsense Chinese attitude coming out in her English.     "Really?!" we said.  "Longsheng already rocks," we thought as we left the hotel.       As we started to explore ...

9 Dragons, 7 Stars, and a Moon
Feb 23, 2008 (25 photos)

... guy.  We finally got the tickets and climbed on the fancy bus.  They gave us free waters and newspapers.  Once in Longsheng we were supposed to find a bus to Ping'an.  This was supposed to be easy.  It wasn't.  The ticket ...

Huangluo Village
Sep 2, 2009 (4 photos)

Famous village of the long haired women, Longsheng mountain region.

Longsheng
Apr 19, 2006 (5 photos)

Dragon's backbone rice terraces

Life above the clouds
Jul 25, 2005 (12 photos)

... terraces. The only thing that I've seen that compares in visual impact is the Grand Canyon. This place, however, is unmistakably China. The seemingly endless terracing is a unique image created by the hand of man over about 800 years, yet so natural and ...

Climbing the Dragon
Jul 22, 2005 (3 photos)

... time the we e reach the top of the valley, my hostess and I are the only two people on the bus. As I'm learning about China though, there is always somewhere to buy a ticket, and this is not an exception. 50 Yuan seems pretty steep just to get into ...

Longsheng-rizeve terase
Feb 5, 2009 (15 photos)

... odlocila, da se podava na podezelje in spoznava se drugi obraz Kitajske. Odpravila sva se v manjse mestece (180000 prebivalcev) Longsheng, kjer je mogoce videti zelo zanimiva terasasta polja za vzgojo riza. Danes so te terase v vecje zanimanje turistom in ...

The rice fields of Longsheng Dazhai
May 22, 2007

The next morning we rose to a wonderful Chinese breakfats of noodles and eggs and tomatoes. From there we set out on a trek to Ping an along the rice paddies. Along the wya we had many of the locals offer us guidance to show us the way, or invite us in ...

Neon
Oct 3, 2008

... we're back to Guilin by bus, then 2 more buses to get to the Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces at Ping'an, Longsheng. this is where, way up in the hills (a scarey hairpin bended road), the landscape has been transformed into farmable terraces. Once ...

Dragons Backbone Rice Terraces
Sep 23, 2007 (27 photos)

23/9 We set off for Longsheng from the Central bus station, getting on a big empty bus, complete with air conditioning and kung fu!  It seems strange that just about every movie that we have seen in china has consisted of kung fu or other ...

Longji Rice Terraces
May 20, 2009 (9 photos)

... air, and just taking it all in. It was a nice place to be. I returned to Guilin by bus in the evening. From Guilin I took a late night bus to Yangshuo. Yangshuo area is supposed to be one of China's most beautiful landscapes. We will see how it treats me!

Les rizières en terrasse à Longsheng
Apr 16, 2008 (41 photos)

Longyi Rice Terraces
Aug 27, 2007

Longsheng

freezing my nuts off
Nov 28, 2006 (7 photos)

Caught a plane to Guilin and after a 3 hour journey north, through some scenery, ended up at the Longji Scenic Area, Longsheng - basically an area of national park, home to some remote hillside villages and lots and lots of rice terraces. The area's ...

rizieres de l epine du dragon
Apr 23, 2008

tout d abord lever aux aurores 4h30.. enfin maia a termine le blog tard et avec les ronflements de la chambre d a cote elle n a pas dormi. le taxi etait la .. ouf . par contre il a revu son prix a la hausse binesur ..trop tard pourdire non nous voila ...

Southeast China....
Sep 8, 2006 (37 photos)

... for Yangshou to bike and row around the area known as the Dragon's Backbone. We headed up to the rice terraces in nearby Longsheng to see the amazing agricultural engineering feat. Then took a (horrible) 32 hour bus ride to Chengdu, which was a nice, ...

10,000 peiople in 400 years
Aug 8, 2005 (10 photos)

... , we want you to landscape it so that we can fill it with rice paddies. How long do you think it will take?" The Longsheng region is home to one of the many minority ethnicities in China, the Zhuang. They have spend many, many years terracing the hills ...

Longji terrasses
Nov 26, 2008 (9 photos)

je suis partie a la journee sur les celebres terrasses de Longji. nous nous sommes tout d abord arretes dans un village Yao ou les femmes ne se coupent les cheveux qu une fois dans leur vie, au moment de leur mariage. puis deuxieme arret a pig xian, ...

Longsheng Rice Terraces
Oct 20, 2008

20/10 Before arriving at the rice terraces we left our large bags at a random hotel on the way because in order to get to our hotel we had to trek for an hour up a steep path. The whole area around our hotel is covered by rice terraces cut into the ...

Longsheng: Land of Rice Terraces
Jun 10, 2008

After Yangshuo So Young and I went to some really awesome rice terraces near a town/city called Longsheng.  This wasn't too far from Guilin. The interesting part of this expedition was that we thought a car was going to pick us up from the train ...

Longsheng
Aug 29, 2004 (10 photos)

Beautiful terraced rice farming - one of the most beautiful natural sights I've ever seen. Two day, 10 hour trek, up and down hills that foreshadowed for me the amount of pain coming my way in Bhutan. My all time favorite bathroom - a small, cold, wet, ...

Terraced Haze
Nov 20, 2006 (7 photos)

5 days were spent guiding thirty 12-year-old international students through the rice terraces of Longsheng, about an hour north of Guilin. I was helping with a guiding company called China Climb, who guides school and corporate trips. We hiked from village ...

Longsheng, China
Oct 20, 2005

Longsheng, China

Longsheng County
Nov 3, 2006

... home, and few of them believed what they saw. On the first day, we had an Ethnic Minorities Culture expedition at Longsheng Terrace. After three-hour drive we arrived at Longji Rice Terrace, which is located in the southeast of Longsheng County and is ...

Hiking ,Drinking and The Cold
Jan 6, 2008

... charachteristics or following on from the traditions when their feet were bound and bones broken in order to be beautifull and marry into a good family. Think it was the highlight of China, the mood was just right and the people warmingly hospitable.

longsheng
Jul 20, 2007 (8 photos)

The rice terraces

Taxi from Yangshuo to Longsheng
Apr 11, 2008 (5 photos)

We decided to take a car to Longsheng as it was only RMB150 each. The road was a bit dodgy in places, and we had to help the driver past an overturned truck at one point. We stayed in Ping'An, which is on the Dragon's Back rice terraces. Unfortunately the ...

Longji Rice Terraces, Ping'An
Nov 16, 2008

Longji Rice Terraces, Ping'An 龙脊梯田 平安

YANGSHOU TO LONGSHENG AND ONWARD UP THE YANGSTE
May 11, 2006

... was anywhere in china someone would find a use for a well worn pair of army boots it would be amongst the mountain folk in Longsheng. Having mentioned this to one of my group, and they in turn staring at the size of my feet, they did respond with... ' ...