From Yangshuo, we took a two-day trip to see the Longji rice terraces. They were beginning to fill up with water from Spring rains.
The first day we headed to Jinkeng terraces and walked through a local village (house below).
We then took the cable car up to a viewpoint, ate an interesting lunch, and took off on a hike to our hotel. I will post pictures of the meal when I post photos of Chinese food.
Our walk meandered through villages and forest.
Our hotel is pictured above in the center. For some reason, it gave me an uneasy feeling from a distance. And, although we had a great stay, it was oddly deserted and felt ripe for murder (as I imagine would be in The Shining… which I have never seen). It was rather empty, perhaps because the only way to reach it is to hike. It didn’t help that lock to the room didn’t function.
The next morning we hiked down the terraces, this time, in the rain.
There is tons of construction in each village due to increasing tourism. The wheelbarrow above zoomed up and down to one of them, avoiding the steep climb.
We then drove to Ping’an to hike up to the rice terraces there. Unfortunately, the clouds had rolled in, and you can’t see the lush mountains in the photos that we glimpsed when the clouds would part.
How is the internet there? 😉
We are in Romania now, which I chose as a destination back when we had internet troubles, and I googled ‘fastest internet in Europe.’ China was a bit more challenging… but we managed.
Where “challenging” means censored and modem speed slow…