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• Yuanyang Rice Terraces | 元阳梯田.
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The Yuanyang Rice Terraces are the Hani ethnic minority’s masterpiece of ingenuity. In unique shapes and sizes with thousands of years of history, they form a mosaic of colorful fields.
If you are a photographer, you should not miss the Yuanyang Rice Terraces. However, the best shooting time for the terraces is from January to March. Yuanyang presents the most beautiful views when after the terraces have been irrigated and the water in the fields reflects the sunshine, creating many colors. ⇒ Photography Tips at Yuanyang Hani Terraces
The province is one of the most diverse in China. The Northwest of the province is heavily influenced by Tibet, with whom it shares a border, and has a large ethnic Tibetan population.
⇒ Also сheck оut мore info: Yuanyang Rice Terraces (travelchinaguide.com) | China’s 5 Most Beautiful Rice Terraces (chinahighlights.com)
The terraced fields stretch across Honghe, Yuanyang, Luchun, and Jinping counties south of Honghe — ‘the Red River’. Yuanyang County is the core area of the Honghe Hani terraces with the grandest scale. In 2013, part of the county formed the *Honghe Hani Rice Terraces World Heritage Site, the 45th World Heritage Site in China.
Of China’s fifty-five officially recognized ethnic minorities, twenty-five can be found in Yunnan: about one-third of the population is not ethnic Han-Chinese. The region is renowned for its *Eighteen Oddities, distinctive traits promoted in tourist materials.
The vast majority of the ethnic minority women in Yuanyang county still wear traditional clothes as their daily attire. The main ethnic group is the Hani who share the region with several other minorities such as the Yi and Miao. Market days in the villages tend to be very colourful when the different minority groups in the vicinity, each in their own traditional costume, come together to trade and socialise.
The closest large towns to the west of Yuanyang county are Shiping (map) and Yuanjiang (map). Gejiu is the major town to the north-east and also the capital of Honghe prefecture. 70 km (43 mi) directly to the north of Yuanyang lies Jianshui (map), a small city with interesting monuments.
There is a railway from Hanoi to Nanning, Guangxi, and one with some sensational scenery from Nanning to Kunming. Another rail route reaches Kunming from central China via Guiyang, Guizhou, and a third one comes South to Kunming from Chengdu, Sichuan. All of these train routes offer spectacular scenery, with long stretches of bridges and tunnels.
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The most common direction-finding app used by the Chinese themselves is Baidu Maps, though it is only available in Chinese. Amap is effectively the Citymapper for the whole of China.
⇒ Also сheck оut мore info: Transportation • Tips for Your China Train Trip (chinahighlights.com)
BUS: A coach or bus in rural China is a different experience. City buses vary from city to city. However, if you can understand the bus routes then they are cheap and go almost everywhere.
TRAIN: Train travel is the main method of long-distance transportation for the Chinese, with an extensive network of routes covering most of the country. >> seat61.com (*Rail travel in China)
AIRPORT: The main international gateways to mainland China are Beijing (Beijing Capital International Airport, Beijing Daxing International Airport), Shanghai (Shanghai Pudong International Airport) and Guangzhou (Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport).
The INCREDIBLE Longsheng (Longji) Rice Terraces | A Day Trip From Guilin, China.
We went to the Longsheng (Longji) Rice Terraces in Guilin, in the Guangxi Province of China! A perfect day trip from Guilin, can easily be turned into an overnight stay for us.
Stepping away from the city life, we explored the rice terraces which are located just a few hours outside of Guilin. We stayed in a local guesthouse and hiked through the rice terraces taking in its beauty! This is something you need to put on your China Bucket List!
⇒ video source: James and Keli / youtube.com /
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