Posts tagged 'Guangxi'

Slideshow: Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces

I know, I know, you’ve had enough of Guangxi. And I promise, this is it for awhile. But if Wednesday’s rave review wasn’t enough to convince to add a stop in Dazhai to your trip to Guilin, these photos should do the trick. As we walked through the Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces, it was hard [...]

Rice and Spiders in Guangxi: Trip Report (Part Two)

For part one of this trip report, see yesterday’s post on the Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces.
When we arrived in Sanjiang, a smallish town in northeast Guangxi, we found that we had missed the last bus to the Chengyang Wind and Rain Bridge. Lonely Planet’s description of Sanjiang — a “bog-standard town” — was both incomprehensible [...]

Rice and Spiders in Guangxi: Trip Report (Part One)

Last Friday night, I found myself once again on train 2513 bound for Guilin. Avid readers of the blog may remember that I am no fan of Guilin, and I happily spent just a few hours there on my return trip to Guangxi Province. The real aims were the Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces and the [...]