Awa Earth Pillars
Rain washed away the soft ground and left the hard cores standing as pillars - counted among the world's three great earth-pillar sites.
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Rain washed away the soft ground and left the hard cores standing as pillars - counted among the world's three great earth-pillar sites.
Whirlpools twenty metres across, appearing twice a day; a walkway slung under the bridge shows them through a glass floor.
A mountain at the city's back and rivers threading through it - the town's shape legible from above.
Cedar planted on precipitous slopes and hauled out by sledge; its tight rings go into buildings and barrels.
Indigo planted where the river floods and enriches the soil - a crop chosen to turn disaster into profit.
Salt fields once covered this shore; their divisions remain in the land, an industry that stood beside indigo.
Stretches were deliberately left unbanked to let floods pass - villages and fields laid out on the assumption of inundation.
Artist residencies opened the door to migrants and satellite offices - cultural policy that changed a village's demography.
The river cut down through crystalline schist; the layered rock faces repeat like a drawn pattern.