Travel Blogs from Longsheng, China

Longsheng Rice Terraces

A travel blog entry by nomadic-brands

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... up the passengers, a German lady in her 20's joined the tour. We teamed up with her, and a British teacher working out in China. It was still very heavy rain, but as we neared the mountains, some 2 hours later, we were more worried about the ...

9 Dragons, 7 Stars, and a Moon

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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... to return to Guilin led us to catch the last bus everywhere.  But at least we caught them.  The bus station in Longsheng was completely empty, which never seems to be a good thing in China.  We got back to Guilin late and decided to get a ...

Huangluo Village

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina

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

Life above the clouds

A travel blog entry by robjstaples

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... 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 ...

Climbing the Dragon

A travel blog entry by robjstaples

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... 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 ...

The rice fields of Longsheng Dazhai

A travel blog entry by mrewkowski

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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 ...

Dragons Backbone Rice Terraces

A travel blog entry by helenpretious

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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 ...

Les rizières en terrasse à Longsheng

A travel blog entry by z00b

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freezing my nuts off

A travel blog entry by jamesemorrow

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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

A travel blog entry by maialex

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 ...

finding a place to squat

A travel blog entry by daily4

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... americans bikes to be looked at. whatever the issue was couldn't be fixed so he hopped on the guides bike and we rode into the Longsheng dragon back terraces. or rode up that is. up and up. goofed off by the river (again) and cycled a tad more until we ...

Longji terrasses

A travel blog entry by crazyaurore

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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: Land of Rice Terraces

A travel blog entry by cantreadchinese

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 ...

Another Long Climb and a Swine Murder

A travel blog entry by fmvela

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... the vehicular carnage and graphic level of death on the mean streets of Guilin, we proceeded to a rice terrace village called Longsheng. LESSONS NOT LEARNED…MORE BAD DRIVING. We got to Longsheng in about two hours. Once we arrived, we took a long, ...

Terraced Haze

A travel blog entry by lilgrimper

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 ...