kez & hay travels 06

Arriving at 2.00 am at what we thought was Guilin train station we spent a few minutes arguing with the taxi man about the correct route to our hostel.  He won though when we realised our departing station was actually a few miles outside of Guilin - ooops.  After spending the last part of the morning sleeping we boarded a minibus for a 3 hour trip to Ping'An, a small hill-top village surrounded by one of the most extraordinarily extreme rice terracing that exists in China.  The rice paddies stretch for miles on top of enormous hills.  We did a 4 hour trek across these hills (which I'm sure was 90% uphill) - enough exercise to last us a couple of years!  We encountered many Zhuang women (the local community) who are apparently internationally renowned for having the longest hair in the world!