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Yuanyang Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Yuanyang, China
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New Year's Day Again
This is a top pick! ... to stun, hillsides and river formations which did not resemble anything we have seen thus far after 5000 miles. When we finally reached Yuanyang, we checked into a pretty average hotel but then enjoyed one of the best meals we have had. We were yet ...
Broken Birthday Bridges
This is a top pick! ... turned the corner feeling really excited that we had only 30 miles along a flattish river road to do to Manhao, our last stop in China. We stopped at what appeared to be a check point, but turned out to be a group of laughing local men closing off the ...
Yuanyang
Having obtained our visa for Vietnam we headed south on our first long distance bus to Yuanyang which seems to be some sort of photographer Mecca. The attraction is the awe inspiring scale of the rice-terraces there and the colour plays they ...
Rice Terraces
Unlike Lijiang's old town and Dali's lakeside, YuanYang doesn't draw so many of Yunan's backpackers. Its distance to/from Kunming being long enough to separate those commited from the rest. We had the luxury of having enough days to warrant a visit to ...
rice terraces of Yuanyang China
... all the rooms with broken items and then sticking us with the repair bill... alas we escaped unscathed and paid a normal hotel bill. Yuanyang is rice terrace heaven. We spoke to the hotel staff about a driver to one set of the terraces for ...
Family life in Yuanyang
... that hit us to an ATM to get him some cash. They obviously didn't have insurance. Once we finally arrived in Yuanyang, about 2 hours later than expected, which we have figured is the norm for bus travel in China, we caught a minibus to the ...
crossing from Vietnam into Yunnan China
... to some other city, which passed by a road where we could be dropped off, from where we could catch a minibus to Yuanyang. We had to decide quickly and it was nerve wracking thinking about being dropped off in the middle of nowhere in ...
Two faces....
... there it is an easy and short walk way to the Duoyishu scenic area. This is the most beautiful natural and cultural landscape of Yuanyang Terraces, and it is the best place to go if you wish to photograph the sunrise. The terraces in this scenic area, ...
Pork Fried Rice?
... as Carly and I left Geijui with the mission of welcoming the ‘Year of the Tiger’ a few hours south in Yuanyang, an ancient flooded rice terrace area known for amazing sunrises and sunsets off the mirrored fields. I woke up this morning ready ...
Terase
Za tem pa je sledilo veliko razočaranje. Bolj ko smo se približevali terasam, bolj se je videlo, da je v hribih megla. In res, megla je postajala vedno gostejša, tako da se prav nikamor ni videlo. Tako stanje pa ...
The Yuanyang Rice Terraces
... during off-season. Lucky us! :-) Make sure you have enough memory available on your camera The Yuanyang rice terraces are another key tourist attraction in China’s Yunnan province. Although about a seven hours bus ride from the city of Kunming, a ...
Culture du riz en terrasse
Apres un dernier changement de bus a Luchun, j arrive enfin a YuanYang a 20h. Je fais 20 m a pied et soudain, c est le drame : en marchant je m affale sur la route comme une merde. J ai pas vu un trou au dessus du caniveau et je me suis tappe ...
Beautiful landscapes with fog and rice terraces
due giorni di carte e buon cibo casereccio in una guesthouse spartana con vista da sogno su una valle di terrazze di riso. ottimi incontri, e forse qualche amico. ...
Fog spotting
... , it was getting a bit too easy to carry on like that, and I was having serious reservations about jumping on a bus down to Yuanyang. I had met a lot of interesting people, had several good nights out and, on the day we were due to leave, some good people ...
Rice culture
Arrival in Yuanyang in the night First arrive around 4 AM the driver and everybody were staying in the bus so do I After 2 hours staying in the bus half sleeping and with no clue from where I was, I ask to the driver where was one hotel of that I ...
Amazing paddy fields ;-)))
... somehow communicated and felt very welcome. Yes, this area is absolutely gorgeous and we felt honored to be able to visit such a wonderful region! Places like Yuanyang and it's people surely make traveling for us as amazing and wonderful as it ...
Yuanyang
... because we got delayed on our return to town, thus I am wasting away time on the net waiting for the next bus. In conclusion China is totally different to what I had expected. I've had a great time here and still haven't seen the majority of the ...
Yuanyang Rice Terraces
Because we were unable to visit the Tibetan Plateau as originall planned we decided at the last minute to visit the Yuanyang Rice Terraces, a place we had wanted to visit but didn't have the time. After a long and hot bus ride, and dodging water ...
Más terrazas de arroz!!!!
... rice terraces in Guanxi province we wanted to see these ones too because they're famous for being some of the most beautiful in China, especially in winter when they're flooded. We emailed ahead to a hostel to check if they'd been flooded yet and luckily ...
Totally Tubular Terraces
... living in Beijing, studying Mandarin and starting an internship shortly. Candice was, like many others in China at this time, on a vacation, and had come to Yuanyang for the same reason we had. She had the advantage of speaking Mandarin, and was thus ...
Yuanyang
... to go after talking to some travellers when I first stayed in Kunming who had just returned from there. Yuan Yang is one of China's amazing vast rice terraces. I wanted to visit if they were going to be flooded as then they are meant to be astounding. ...
Aux portes des rizieres en terrasse
il me reste 3 jours en chine et il fait un temps de chien ... chanceux ou pas? on ...
Yuanyang Rice Terraces
The Yunnan chapter of our China guidebook states that if you have time to visit only one province in China, then it should be Yunnan. An unequivocal recommendation that is maybe influenced by the target audience of this particular guidebook. ...
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