Longshen Rice Terrace Climb @ China – Oct 2009

5 hours climb to get us reached to the place we stay up for the night.It was the longer route we took to visit the different area of rice terraces surrounding the longshen village.

Though i was numb and speechless at the last hour, but no regrets. The view was magnificent, not to forget to mention the great companions during the journey. ;)

Longshen is 2 hours bus ride from Guilin. Those terrace fields are built along the slope winding from the riverside up to the mountain top. Got to know from the local villagers that most of the terrace fields were built 500 years ago, during the Ming Dynasty.

This is still not the peak, is a rest stop halfway through the climb =P .

I am half dead, whole body sweated and my legs started shaking. haha. A little exaggerating, but is when i started to feel a little exhausted. It was after the second hour, and we thought we were almost there.

Awesome weather early in the morning

When sun rises… keeping everyone of us warm and cozy

 

The little ‘white bug’ we see in this village up in the mountain hill

Horses helps the villagers to transport goods up and down the mountain hill. The horses back are really strong !

Their land of producing rice to their people, its like our padi fields in Malaysia.

Houses where the local villagers stays