Archive for May 23rd, 2009
The Magnificent Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces
The main reason everybody comes to Pingan village is to marvel at the magnificent rice terraces built on the mountainside. Rice is an important part of the diet of the people here, mountains have made it difficult to plant rice which needs flat land to plant on. As usual, necessity is the mother of invention, they local people carved terraces from the mountains to enable the planting of rice.
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