Thursday, April 17, 2008

Guilin and Longsheng

Sorry I have been slow with the posts, but let me continue on my spring break adventures...
After Yongshuo, we went back to Guilin, which well... other then the two pictures below, was a bit odd, and the bad weather didn't help either, but we made the most of it and found a great candy shop we went to each day.


From Guilin we also took a VERY LONG day trip to Longsheng, "The Rice Terraces" which were absolutely stunning. When we got off the bus the local women from the village come and try to sell you all sorts of silly souvenirs.

Here is Amanda with one of the ladies from the village, Amanda bought a hand-made skirt from her. Something to note is the odd way the woman's hair is put up, traditional women from the region never cut their hair, they have an extremely complex way in which to put their hair up, it was so amazing.

More stairs..... will it ever end

View from the top, mite I also add that to get to the rice terraces you take an hour Chinese bus ride up the scariest road I have ever been on, Mom you would have had a heart attack with the height, when we drove around the curves,(no barriers like going to Big Bear on the sides) eeeeeeeeeeeeek!



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