Travel Photographs by Rosemary Sheel

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I call this 'rainbow cliffs'. It is in the mountains of Yunnan, near Dongchuan.Women cut stalks of rice. Harvest time is in the fall. Yuan Yang.A elderly woman cuts rice on a mountain top terrace. She was 78 years old, agile and nimble with a good sense of humor.An unusual rice paddy shaped in a circle. The farmers may not actually own their fields, but they have something like a lease. This is near the area called Thousand Hills. There are myriad gum-drop shaped karst mountains in the background.An overview of rice paddies near Thousand Hills.Cornfields on the mountain tops near Dongchuan.Two Chinese farmers walk along the ridge between rice paddies. The bundles lined up on the right side of the picture are rice stalks that are waiting to be threshed.Viewed from the mountain top, these harvested rice terraces resemble an abstract painting.Look closely and you will see men carrying bales of rice stalks on their backs. I watched to see if it was difficult for them and it wasn't. They simply flew up the small path to the mountain top.A house is hidden in the depths of the valley in Long ji.Mist rose up from the valleys every night. This was fall and it was cool but not cold.Long-ji is perhaps the most beautiful of all the rice farms in this part of China due to the mountains being close together and the unusual curving terraces. The terraces are 400 years old. They have been irrrigated using bamboo pipe but now they are beginning to use pvc.Mist and pine trees in the mountains.Orange-colored rice terraces, dried out after harvest.A Pagoda overlooks the rice fields and the Thousand Hillls.A farm in the red earth country of Dongchuan.Terraces flow down the ridge of the mountain like a sack of spilled coins.An abstract of rice terraces. Long ji.
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Orange-colored rice terraces, dried out after harvest.



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