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Trekking on Longji, Dragon-backbone Rice Terrace
Author: Leo He Date: Aug 1, 2007
We wanted to find a new trekking route on Longji area, Stewart and I selected a rainy day to go for this advanture..
Early in the morning we put on our backpack and took a bus to Lingchuan county, where we hired a mini-bus to drive us to a small town called Bojitang where we were supposed to start our hiking. It took around 2 hours on the way altogether. The last part of the drive was not easy, the road is narrow and bumping. We got off the mini-bus and start our trekking at the end of the bumping road where there is no way for the car.
We saw some local farmer sitting at the place where we got off the car. They were taking a break after carrying some bamboos down from the mountain. In this area most of the plants on the mountain are bamboos and bamboo harvest is a major income for the villagers. In order to save the time of finding the path from time to time as well as letting the local people to earn some money, we hired a villager to be our guide.
We hiked most of our way up, which consumed a lot of energy of us. But when we looked down to enjoy the splendid scenery of the terraced rice fields from time to time, all the weariness seemed to have gone. When we got to the top of Dahu mountain, the second highest mountain in Guangxi Province, the feeling is really overwhelming. It’s cool and a little dark over there since it was going to rain. We are suddenly among the mist and the mist rushed away quickly because of the strong wind. And then we surprisingly found two graves there. All these reminded me the atmosphere described in the ghost stories.
After around 4 hours’ hiking, at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon, we arrived a village called Jiuwu. According to our plan, we would spend one night there and then continue to hike another 4 hours to Dazhai in Jinkeng area. Stewart was very happy with this result and said he didn’t expect that we could finish the first half in such a short time. He turned to me with a smile, “are you ok? shall we continue our hiking since we still have a lot of time today?” I said “ok” hardly before I gave time to think about it. Then we continued.. Partly because we were a little tired after 4 hours’ trekking and partly because of the rain started shortly after that, I felt that the second half was much more difficult. Stewart fell for twice and I’m not better than him, I fell for 3 times because of the wet slippery path. For the last half hour we were walking in the totally darkness and I felt almost worn out when we finally arrived our destination—Dazhai village.
I put down my backpack in the room of Jinkeng Guesthouse and rushed into the bath room. The hot show seemed to be the most comfortable and refreshing one I had ever had. It was the same with the dinner that night, never been better than that since you are so tired and hungry.
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