A few hours from Yangshuo there is an amazing place where entire mountains were domesticated by Man. Imagine several mountains completely covered with rice terraces, until the eye can reach. Imagine these rice terraces flooded with water with newly planted rice (I was lucky with the time of the year), showing you different tones and reflections as the sun moves during the day. This place is the mighty Dragon Backbone Rice Terraces.
I stayed in a cute guesthouse in a small mountain village with two nice dogs and an extremely nice family (mother and daughter). The food was great, some of the best dumplings I had so far, and right in front there was a full mountain slope wit rice terraces.
The guesthouse's restaurant
The view from the guesthouse
During the night I saw the largest nocturnal insects I've ever seen! During the day we sat in front of the guesthouse, just looking at the terraces , while the 'village's grandfather' (a 102 years old wrinkly man) looked at us, while squatting in a higher location. This was probably the 102th time he saw these reflections in the terraces.
A moth and a fly-looking bug (my hand is there to give you an idea of the scale)
My travel mates, the guesthouse dogs and the village's grandfather in the background
We did a trek for a few hours where we realised the scale of the enterprise... There were several mountains around also with the rice paddies. With the amount of rice eaten in this gigantic country no wonder that such huge enterprises exist...
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