Ping-an

After Yangshuo, Tim and I spent a couple of days in Ping-an to see the Dragon's Backbone Terraces... so called because of all the rice terraces on the sloping hills which supposedly look like a dragon's backbone.

Unfortunately, we couldn't see it very well due to low cloud etc., but Ping-an was very nice to walk around in itself, and we couldn't get enough of the smoked bacon done Yao style!! The Yao minority smoke the bacon about 10 times until the outside is black and it tastes really, really good.

Originally, we were planning on hiking down to Jinkeng, which is another Dhong village, but because of the shitty weather we decided to push on. In the darkness on the way home on our first day, we met an Aussie called Martin and as we are going in the same direction (and he's a cool guy) we've been travelling together ever since. Hope you like the photos though. :)

A typical Dhong style wooden house.

Tim on the path leading to the wind & rain bridge.

Me on the way up, up, up to our guest house.

Birds-eye view of Ping-an's Dhong houses.

The fabulous smoked bacon... yum!

At least it had atmosphere, if not the view.