Yunnan Part Three

After we left Lijiang, we headed to Tiger Leaping Gorge, the deepest gorge in the world (well, one of). The river is the Yangtze, before it gets really big and spreads out across the plains of central China. The gorge is named TLG because supposedly, in ancient times, a tiger leaped right across the frothy rapids to the other side.

On the first day, we walked ~14 miles, including 5200 meters vertical ascent (and then the worst part was, we had to come back down that same day). The second day was much shorter; we descended right down to the water (it was a raging river) and saw the purported "tiger leaping stone." Given that the opposite bank was a sheer cliff, I find it difficult to believe any sort of tiger was doing any sort of leaping...

Pictures.

Yunnan Part Two

Pictures of Lijiang are finally up.

Sorry it took so long. More to come immediately.

Yunnan Part One

I just spent a week in Yunnan, eats of Tibet, south of Sichuan, north of Burma, Laos, etc. I'm putting pictures up in installments, cause I have a lot. First I flew to Kunming, then took an overnight sleeper bus to Shangri-la up in the mountains. Kunming was nice and warm, but we drove up hill for 12 hours, and by the time we got to the Tibetan plateau, it was snowing. Great.

For these first few days I was by myself, then met up with Jill and Claire in a town called Lijiang south of Shangri-la. If you're one of those types who likes to look at a map to see what happened, here it is.

Our trip: Kunming--> Shangri-la--> Lijiang --> Tiger Leaping Gorge--> Dali-->Kunming.

Pictures of Shangri-la come first.