China
The Dragon's Backbone
It's amazing what hunger will drive people to. In Ping'an, it drove them to slowly carve away at every slope as far as the eye could see. For centuries. The effort was a rousing success on at least two levels: it allowed the people here to farm land that most farmers wouldn't look at twice, and (perhaps more importantly) it looks really, really cool. The area is called the dragon's backbone, and it doesn't take too much imagination to see how it got the name.
A vertebrae-ish part of the dragon's backbone
Valley of terraced paddies
A local who is out standing in his field
And more fields
Traffic jam on the way back to Guilin
