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Sunrise over a rice terrace field in the Yuanyang region

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Crafted over many centuries by the Hani people, their rice terraces are spectacularly defining the landscape of the southern Yunnan province and make for an amazing sight.
A dense fog enveloped the world around us, effectively making that world very small. Besides, it was pitch dark at this early hour of the day. Once inside the car, my travel companions and I wondered how the driver was going to take us anywhere as we could not see anything ahead of us. Still, he drove off. Sometimes, we could vaguely discern the contours of an object on the road: a car, a street sign, a house. But otherwise, we did not have a clue how the driver was able to prevent us from colliding head-on against a wall, or even worse, drive straight off the road in this mountainous region. Suddenly, we realized that the darkness of night was lifting, that the denseness of the fog was dissolving and that we were actually seeing the contours of houses and trees. The driver seemed excited, too, and stopped immediately. We jumped to the side of the road and, below us, we saw the outlines of some of the fames rice terrace fields of Yuanyang. This was, however, only a small area of rice terraces, and we quickly continued to Duoyishu. While we had hardly seen any traffic on the way, we were completely taken aback by the amount of cars, minivans and tour buses on the parking lot. My worst fears became true when we started going down the hill: it was swarming with domestic tourists, spread all over viewpoints at different levels, all with one or more expensive cameras. I almost had to fight my way to conquer a place to finally see what we were here to see.
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