Sunday, August 14, 2011

Guilin Departure and Rice Terraces- John Mark Bellet



After taking final pictures with Qingshuan and leaving Guilin we visited another minority where the women never cut their hair (above) and I got to go through the marriage ceremonies with one of the girls there. It was very bizarre and part of the ceremony involved the family members circling around you and pinching your butt? Then we visited what some people consider to be the most beautiful place in China. The rice terraces pictured above stretched out all over the horizon in front of you. On the way up and down the mountain a full sized bus sped at high speeds on tiny roads up the mountain and seemed like it would flip at any moment! And on top of that since many buses were going up and down they had no way of seeing each other around tiny 180 degree turns on the mountain side and only honked the horn when coming to the bend to warn other traffic!

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