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.
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