February 27, 2015 at 9:31 am
Picture of the Day: Rice Terraces from Above
Photograph by Jialiang Gao | www.peace-on-earth.org
In this breathtaking aerial photograph by Jialiang Gao, we see the amazing terraced rice terraces of Yunnan, China. Yunnan’s Yuanyang County is a popular destination with photographers due to the vast areas of nearby mountains which have been cultivated into terraced rice paddies for at least the past 1300 years by the Hani people.

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