Travel Blogs from Ping'an, Guangxi, China

The Rice Terraces

A travel blog entry by mikeandrachel

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We got a tour bus from Yangshuo to Ping'an as we thought it would be easier than arranging the journey on our own. Ping'an is a small remote village located in Longji, well known for the very distinct rice terraces in China. The village is located high up ...

Home of the Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces.

A travel blog entry by andremaheux

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... each tribe dresses very distinctively. One can tell which tribe a local belongs to just by looking at their hair style and their clothes. Ping'An is about Corn, Chili Pepper and the all wood homes the Dongs live in. They lay the chili peppers si it ...

Day 7: Into the mountains

A travel blog entry by kramertown

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... . Met at the airport by our super mini-van (just imagine a mini-Cooper minivan) we bounced our way through the countryside to Ping'an. Fortunately, we have lost all sense of safety and the kids played in the trunk for most of the windy mountain trip. ...

Longji terraced rice fields

A travel blog entry by sarahtritschy

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We went to the Longjie terraced rice fields in Ping'an on Saturday. AMAZING! If you ever get the chance go there!!! The scenery is so breath taking and just pure awesome! A mimbus from Longsheng brought us up the mountain on the hairpin ...

Day 8: Rice Field Adventure

A travel blog entry by kramertown

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... , that if it could be arranged, we would leave a day early for Yangshou as we had really seen most of what we could see in Ping'an. It turned it was possible and now all we had to do was explain to our non-english speaking hotel manager that we needed to ...

Ping'an

A travel blog entry by mies

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Ping'an Adventure (Summer Break)

A travel blog entry by eddakath

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... isn't this just stunning, it's a.....a....another thing to buy and never look at. Enough, bye bye. You begin the walk up to Ping'An by going across a little bridge full of You Buy You Buy stalls and when you round the hill the view that is before you ...

2 days in Ping'an

A travel blog entry by beornot2be

two night nights on top of the mountains in Ping'an. (more ...

Oct 14, 2011

A travel blog entry by betzgu

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2 Saturdays

A travel blog entry by grubear

... , and I pretended to smoke a cigarette.  Woohoo.  Sometimes it's easier to just try to appease the older generation in China; they don't take 'no' lightly.  We also played a ton of dice.  I'm not sure what this game is called, but ...

Food

A travel blog entry by grubear

... out of three.  In China, fast food does not equal cheap.  It will be cheap if you are earning an American income while living in China, but if you are earning a Chinese income, it's not so cheap anymore.  You're much better off cooking for ...

Into rural china

A travel blog entry by jdelmaire

... in a run through stairs to the last house of the village (and being ripped off for it), we woke up the next morning in Ping'An, among the most amazing rice terraces arrangement you can imagine. The early start enabled us to enjoy the sunrise, and, more ...

Learning Chinese

A travel blog entry by grubear

... is falling, like when you yell “Stop!”  Another example besides 人, or person, is the word for China, 中国, ‘zhong[1] guo[2]’, or America, 美国, ‘mei[3] guo[2]’.  Now you know ...

Rice Terraces

A travel blog entry by jennyinchina

Yesterday we took buses to the small village of Ping'an to see the rice terraces. The second bus to the village was interesting. I gave up my seat to an older woman and stood for the hour long trip as the bus wove up the mountain. The mountains are steep ...

Wocka, wocka, ...aw, heck.

A travel blog entry by grubear

That went well. I took off at 9:00AM Thursday morning, an hour later than I thought due to rain.  And it rained again on me from about 9:30-10:15, but it was a drizzle instead of the morning downpour that it was earlier. About 12:30pm the sun came ...