YuanYang, China

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 ...

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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 this ...

... 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 sunset.& ...