National day in the fields
I spent the week’s National Day holiday in Honghe prefecture, making a stop at the Hani minority rice terrace fields in Yuanyang. I’ve been trying to get down here for a while now, and am glad I did, as it was (almost) everything I’d hoped it would be. The village of Yuanyang - Xinjie is fairly well off the beaten tourist track, to the extent that there were very few tourists in town even during the “golden week” holiday. At any rate, I certainly recommend Yuanyang to anyone who wants to stay in crap hotels, eat questionable food, struggle to understand a local dialect, and see some unbelievably sweet rice fields.