Incredible Longsheng Day Tour to Longji Rice Terraces and Zhuang Yao Culture from Guilin
Guilin, China
Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 8 hours
Take a day trip from Guilin to Longsheng to discover China’s rich minority culture and to enjoy the magnificent Longji Rice Terraces, some of the most famous rice terraces in the entire world.
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Take a day trip from Guilin to Longsheng to discover China’s rich minority culture and to enjoy the magnificent Longji Rice Terraces, some of the most famous rice terraces in the entire world.Your guide will pick you up from your hotel in Guilin at 08：30am and drive you to Longsheng County, where is approx. 2 hours northwest of Guilin. Begin your tour with a visit to Zhuang Yao Villages, two of the ethnic minorities in China.
Your guide will provide comprehensive information about the culture and traditions of the Zhuang and Yao, and you will have the opportunity to see their unique and colorful clothing, watch the women embroidering. Afterwards you will enjoy a delicious local lunch.
After lunch you will climb up to the summit of the Longji rice terraces at an elevation of 2,886 ft (880 m). A half-hour hike up offers an amazing panoramic vista of this incredible feat of farm engineering. The ethnic minorities were forced to move to the mountains in the Yuan Dynasty when they were hunted by the government at the time. They were mainly an agricultural society and, as a result, created the rice terraces to continue their farming culture on the side of the mountains. From the peak the terraced rice fields resemble the backbone of a dragon twisting and turning into the distance. The terraces divide the mountain into multiple layers. Tiers of water glisten in the sun during the spring, lush green rice shoots appear in the summer, layers of golden rice flourish in the fall, and layers of snow cover the terraces in the winter. When the tour ends, you will be transferred back to your hotel.
Your guide will provide comprehensive information about the culture and traditions of the Zhuang and Yao, and you will have the opportunity to see their unique and colorful clothing, watch the women embroidering. Afterwards you will enjoy a delicious local lunch.
After lunch you will climb up to the summit of the Longji rice terraces at an elevation of 2,886 ft (880 m). A half-hour hike up offers an amazing panoramic vista of this incredible feat of farm engineering. The ethnic minorities were forced to move to the mountains in the Yuan Dynasty when they were hunted by the government at the time. They were mainly an agricultural society and, as a result, created the rice terraces to continue their farming culture on the side of the mountains. From the peak the terraced rice fields resemble the backbone of a dragon twisting and turning into the distance. The terraces divide the mountain into multiple layers. Tiers of water glisten in the sun during the spring, lush green rice shoots appear in the summer, layers of golden rice flourish in the fall, and layers of snow cover the terraces in the winter. When the tour ends, you will be transferred back to your hotel.
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