Honghe Hani Rice Terraces

A Mountain Farmed in Steps for 1,300 Years Cascading down the flanks of the Ailao Mountains in southern Yunnan, more than 3,000 individual terraces at some locations step from forested ridgelines to the valley floor, forming one of the most extensive and enduring feats of traditional agricultural engineering anywhere in the world. The Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, built and continuously maintained by the Hani ethnic minority for an estimated 1,300 years, were inscribed as a…...