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Scale the Slopes of the Rice Terraces in Guangxi Province
Published by Kristin Cowles, Editor-in-Chief
Country: China 
The Experience
In the town of Longsheng in Gaungxi Province, lies one of the most intricate and serene landscapes, where rice terraces scale the slopes of the winding hillsides. Known as the Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces, it is home to four different ethnic minorities Miao, Yao, Dong and Zhuang which offer visitors the amazing opportunity to truly mingle with the local culture by exploring their traditions first hand.
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- Cruise the River Art Gallery that is the Li River
- Cruising down the Li River in the Guilin area of China is one of the most memorable ways to experience the natural Chinese landscape. Imagine floating down a peaceful river, ice-cold drink in your hand; while around you, rising up on the banks of the jade-green river, countless karst peaks tower into the sky—majestic renderings of a classical Chinese landscape. Bamboo rafts fitted with chairs and steered by oarsman cruise down the many tributaries of the Li River. Skillfully plying a long bamboo pole through both deep and shallow waters, you are able to relax, forget your worries, and enjoy ...40 miles away.
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Books and DVDs
- China Travel Guide - Lonely Planet
- Welcome to China: vast, ambitious, proud, and transforming like never before. Speed down alleyways on your Beijing bicycle, slurp steaming noodles in the shadow of a Shanghai skyscraper and wake up spellbound to the desertscapes on Xinjiang.
- Guangxi: Land of Wonders and Beauty (Paperback)
- China's Southwest Travel Guide - Lonely Planet.com
- Are you ready to get your socks knocked off? China's southwest is studded with jawdroppers: newborn pandas in Chengdu, the world's largest Buddha statue in Leshan, the hypnotic ripples of the Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces and futuristic hotels shooting up into the sky.
Elsewhere on the Web
- Guilin Travel Guide - WikiTravel.org
- Guilin is a scenic town and one of the best-known tourist destinations in China. There are many scenic places within short traveling distance of Guilin. These include Longshang with it's famous Longji rice terraces; The Li jiang river, a scene of which is printed of the back of ¥20 bank notes; Yangshuo, a small city downstream form Guilin; and much more
- Longsheng Travel Guide - China Travel Guide.com
- Local Highlights: colorful mixture of Dong, Zhuang, Yao and Miao ethnic groups
- Longsheng - Back Roads of China.com
- Longsheng town, in Northern Guangxi province, is a small town of 160,000, which is surrounded by mountains on all four sides. In this town, you will find a mixture of Zhuang, Yao, Miao and Dong ethnicities.
- Travel Report China - Voyages.gc.ca
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Media References
- GOING TO Guilin - NY Times.com (newspaper)
- The name Guilin may not have a familiar ring to many Westerners, but among Chinese this city in the southern China province of Guangxi is legendary for its beauty.
- China's Waters And Mountains Of Eternity - NY Times.com (newspaper)
- I'D timed my visit to coincide with the flowering of the osmanthus trees. So when I arrived in Guilin on a moonless night in early October after a one-hour flight from Hong Kong, I smelled the city of my forebears before I saw it.
- Perpendicular paddies - Globe and Mail.com (newspaper)
- The hills — whose name translates into “Dragon's Spine” — are home to thousands of rice terraces stacked like giant shelves.
- China: Riding the Rising Giant - National Gepgraphic.com (magazine)
- Aussie duo Naomi Skinner and Scott Spencer have guided biking tours everywhere from Mongolia to Vietnam, but their favorite routes lie inside southern China's lush rural hinterlands.
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