China
Ping'an
Ping'an is home to about 180 families who make their living farming the surrounding terraced rice fields. The village and rice fields grew to their present size over a period of about 300 years. Given how steep the slopes are, cars and people with underdeveloped legs are two things you won't see here. What you will see are traditional wood homes (typically with three floors: one for animals, one for people, and one for food), beautiful views, and people walking up and down the steep paths loaded down with propane, rice, wood and just about every other necessity you can imagine.
Heading into Ping'an
Around Town
A gourd
Ping'an and surrounding rice fields
A sweet, strong, and very tasty wine made from glutinous rice, spicy mountain vegetable soup, and glutinous rice with chicken -- a great meal after a long climb
