Shek Kwu the town after lunch we started to work towards it to Tiger Leaping Gorge. Jinsha River Tiger Leaping Gorge is a turn after a big bend Yulong Snow Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain break formed by a canyon terrain, drop (referring to the Peak to the river) was almost 4,000 meters, is the world's deepest one of the Grand Canyon. Tiger Leaping Gorge from west to east down the river in turn are divided into the tiger jump tiger in the tiger jumped and the next jump, two were bridgehead west of the town, belonging to Diqing Zhongdian County, as well as a ferry big east, belongs to Lijiang Prefecture. Lijiang highways pass these two places, as to go to Zhongdian, a highway bridge pass Zhongdian, and large compared with Haba snow-capped mountains along the barrier, you must turn the snow-capped mountains, and have a baishuitai only road leading to Zhongdian.

Walk across the Tiger Leaping Gorge generally have two such routes starting from Zhongdian to the bridge, across the Tiger Leaping Gorge Tai a, over the Jinsha River to Lijiang; if the direction of departure from Lijiang in contrast, across from the big to bridge with. We have chosen is not someone to go the third route, starting from Lijiang to the bridge, crossing after crossing the Tiger Leaping Gorge Haba snow-capped mountains, visit the birthplace of the Naxi baishuitai, then baishuitai to Zhongdian.

There are two paths inside the Tiger Leaping Gorge to choose from, one is the so-called High Path, is a traditional backpackers path winding throughout all Road; the other one is the newly opened along the gravel road to go, also known as Low Path, better to go some, also a straight road, but the scenery a lot of difference, but also greatly reduces the pleasure of crossing on foot, but also the first Rolling Stone during the rainy season there is the possibility of landslides. We chose, of course, High Path. In general, along the High Path through the Tiger Leaping Gorge, Haba Snow Mountain and then climb this route is said to considerable physical exertion, I am a person who love crab, consistent Yangaoshoudi, for such a challenging journey flew on the finalized, and beginning at noon on the first day was planned through the night, Hetaoyuan residential area, next morning departure Haba snow-capped mountains to climb, Liu chef is opening back empty bridge, from Zhongdian Bypass baishuitai to meet us. Now want to come: Fortunately this plan did not materialize, or else very difficult for us in two days which has completed such an arduous journey.

Less gossip Syria, the book The Story of return. In the bridge money, bought 30 tickets for us on the tiger jumped straight on, here come to Lijiang, Zhongdian tours must play the land, and their trip to Tiger Leaping Gorge is actually starting from Lijiang, after a bridge during a visit to the Tiger jump to see the so-called "tiger jumping stone", and then back to bridge, or go directly back to Lijiang, Zhongdian. For those of us who walk through the run, jumped on the tiger is a tasteless role, see, picture not as good as the tiger jump, do not see, then somewhat discontented, so I decided to bring everyone to take a look or a bar.

Tiger Leaping Gorge on the tiger jumped at the entrance, visitors must shun the stone steps down from the gravel road for about 10 minutes to close contact with the mighty Jinsha River water. Before reaching the mountain pass, the Jinsha River flows relatively flat, a tiger jumped into the last, immediately becomes a narrow river, combined with a larger drop, the river roaring down, can be described as magnificent. I have not seen the field in Shanxi Yellow River Hukou torrent looks like (take the Beijing-Shanghai line Daoshi seen many times when the tragic story of the Yellow River), coincides with the rainy season trip to Tiger Leaping Gorge, Jinsha River carries a large amount of mud, water glistening yellow , so in the Tiger Leaping Gorge of the Yangtze River to see the same television, the Yellow River Hukou see almost.

Tiger Leaping Gorge signboards "tiger jump" tiger jumped from stone, allegedly because of Tiger Leaping Gorge is very narrow, narrowest point only 30 meters, and, of course, even a tiger or a 30-meter jump is not the past, just middle of a river where there is a stone, a tiger can jump from the rocks and then jump to the east coast of the West Bank, thereby crossing the river, hence the name Tiger Leaping Gorge.

If you go, then follow the guide, tour guides will be pointing to tiger jumped on the middle of the river in a rock situation very frustrating to say to you: "Look, that is, the tiger jumped the famous stone." And then you may feel excited can not help but raise their cameras for front of this rock the murder of a large number of films put on a variety of positions. The question is: this piece of stone is in fact an earthquake in 1968 fall into the river in the cave, and lay in the history here, but for 30 years, how could the actual occurrence of the old legend of the tiger jumped stone do?

So, the answer is: all of the publicity tour tiger jumped on the middle of the river is not a real tiger jumped stone stone, stone is in fact situated in the tiger jump tiger jump, we go to visit him tomorrow.

Tiger jumped back on the gravel road, and we get on the train again for a while, eyes there was a fork in the road on the left is a gravel road continues towards the middle and lower tiger jump, the right is an uphill road. Liu master the car stops, leisurely, said: "This started on foot, and think well, to walk in here, get off, otherwise, still follow my car, I was in front of Woody hotels wait for you."

Since the Su-Qin, after a long trek to the lake has been less comfortable, I originally planned to bypass the Tiger Leaping Gorge, Zhongdian, etc. directly to us, but in the end still persisted with us into the gorge, apparently on foot as best; Yong Long is the days under the most sweetheart of a boyfriend, though would like to join us on foot, but after all according to Gu Suqin paramount; In addition, Jeffery, and Jian Min has chosen to take the road along with cars, so the remaining five men and three women accompany our peers. Originally I was carrying all the equipment ready to go to understand what all apparent seriousness, how hard backpack through Tiger Leaping Gorge, Liu said that you master the provincial bar, I am sorry for the packages are resting in the car, with only a bottle of water, a can of Jianlibao, camera, warm clothing around the waist, and his party are also eight mighty uphill walk.

I am not very familiar with the geographical Tiger Leaping Gorge, thinking that here is a High Path of the starting point, does not. We started to walk places, "Gravel Road, 14 kilometers," which is 14 kilometers away from the town bridge, while the High Path is the town began to spiral up the hill from the bridge, and at the moment are our heads, that is, we are from the halfway planted vertically along the trail to go. It sounds as if we were sitting in cars run 14 kilometers an advantage, but in fact half of them take the path up the hill from the degree of difficulty just as much as a starting left High Path, not only the steep slope and the road is also more difficult to walk. We can say that through the trip is divided into two paragraphs, the Sheng walking paths, a section of the Sheng High Path walk, everyone feel that the latter is a heavenly feeling, Huang Ru National Park, a walk on a footpath; while the former is still recall up and still feel horrible to the extreme.

Just started kinda decent way up the mountain, five minutes later he showed his true colors: It is purely one in the barren hills by the caravan out of the narrow winding path, from time to time Colts came into the column, we have to embracing Cliff avoidance. Steep, slippery, dangerous, and winding all over the gravel, walking up a great strain. At that time I thought it is the foreigners love to go High Path, can not help but command the respect of foreigners: I feel very hard to go empty-handed, foreigners carrying eight or 90 liters backpack sparkle to walk it not stronger than me too more? Of course, such an instance, I have not seen, but added the foreigners to see a woman on horseback followed by a caravan down the mountain, made following Qiangdajingshen see our shape, we hasten to say that "It's just ten minutes' walk" to comfort her In fact, we have sighed walked half an hour.

Later, everyone went silent, and save the physical. While ago in the China Youth Daily, bragging to see a girl in Beijing to defend himself on that, saying in a Sino-Japan Liaison Office in mountaineering activities where they are these Chinese high school students (Come on, is the Beijing students, less disgrace to the Chinese students) is because the side of the mountain side of the inviting voice and singing was able to maintain a high morale way along the road, and that people do not help each other Japanese children the spirit of cooperation, one by one only care if they walk. There are two common sense questions: first, the climbing is a sport involving breath control, and side movement while singing seems conclusive cause breath disorders. I have good and bad from fifteen years ago where the regular mixed choir, and now no law in singing at the same time control of the normal atmosphere to long-distance running, let alone the child. Second, the Japanese spirit of collaboration is well known, "brother in Japan," the most emotion is the Japanese not so much let's Huahuachangzi we can work together diligently to honestly do a good job, and then Like the hard-earned money like crazy glasses and Banv arms burn. Movement disorder breath if I can not detrimental to the movement itself under the assertion, the Japanese whether there need to be used in the test team spirit of mountaineering, the individual will and I can not call the shots for them, but at least one thing is certain: For the Young made the capital of succession is better than OK, dare to say that the good quality and ability, we are too busy in these pure and high school students in Beijing saw the future and hope. However, Ye Hao, Beijing's high-end job market no threat to local people on your situation, at least in this generation who will not change, the buddies in Beijing, making money is really lucky to have so many local people in the low-end to you sell coolies.

Just when everyone was hard at walking, followed by to a little girl carrying a basket carried on, feeling like she was only a small antelope, at the beginning was just a black dots, hop hop to catch up with us. 11 However, little girl, two years old appearance, looks pricey, a little face is very delicate and pretty, but also showing a stubborn bones. Girls and met with eight individuals on slowing down and began walking with us, we are struggling after the fork in the road climbed to the Mid-levels, multi-up, while certainly able to finish, but different way to take up the difficult level is different, With the girls we are assured that a lot of guidance.

And girls are walking about, before we know she will be called the Feng-pei, is the boss in front of Half Way Inn Feng (forget the name, shame! Which Brother told me) the daughter of the boarding bridge to go to school today, Saturday, she returned home to live , by the way the town house from the point of purchase items that hotels need to bring back the results on the road with our chance encounter. She pointed to the mountain a floating roof of a white flag and the flag shop house told us that her family's inn. As the name implies, Half Way Inn is located in High Path of the midpoint is between a good place for travelers stopping for a rest. Feng boss received numerous foreign visitors, compared to Chinese tourists walk across a little like Tiger Leaping Gorge Tiger Leaping Gorge has become foreigners, so he put up outside the shop side of flag Chinese flag has demonstrated it is a Chinese hotel.

We are already tired and thirsty and hungry to see this paradise exceptionally spirit, although seems a long way off bang goes up. We have this group of hungry, thirsty demons burst into the courtyard, Feng boss quickly opened square table, long bench, one cup of hot tea for the reverence and respect for, and finally put these ghosts to quell the thirst. Then began the town of Hungry Ghosts, take on the roll of bamboo, I almost thought it was the Qin and Han antiquities, there is a surprise to see the top foreign language know that this is the menu, in the bamboo engraved in Chinese and English on the menu, but also great originality. I was doing a good job of being severely mentally prepared for slaughter knife - as a transportation hub of the Beijing Capital Airport cup of coffee to 88, a steamed buns must be 10; where the remote mountains, the vast majority of raw materials had to external basket carried on the back from the mountains come, would not get out sky-high price? Results 1 to read the menu, snacks surprised, pile tip a bowl Egg Fried Rice as long as five spending money, only the equivalent of Beijing, Shanghai and a small restaurant where a small-cap prices, cheaper than I expected half (our common in Yunnan Egg Fried Rice or less the same city, eat this level, indicating Half Way Though located in the tourist destination, but it did not, as most of the travel services unit prices, as riding, extortion tourists). I am an outspoken person, after reading the right Feng boss said: This is the menu your conscience say no Guia! Fan Chu Feng boss faces a simple and honest smile, saying: As long as you understand the like.

We call a big table beverage food, though it was about four points to minutes, is far from dinner time. It is because this path uphill walk too much physical exertion. Feng finished the boss to take care of a group of exhausted decided to abandon the original plan gone in to spend the night here, are now drying stage, chatting and drinking look at the scenery from time to time on our beautiful do twinkle wasted effort and the foreigners are after the ride came to us about "Donkey Wall ": probably the May Bar a few travelers from the big a departure, across the Jinsha River, under the tiger jumped across the big ditch in the tiger jumping, walking High Path to this hotel, Feng boss brought them from the Half Way starting on the Haba Snow Mountain, the road, bad weather, at night accommodation in the Yi shepherds abandoned stone house, hardly anything to eat, also it began to snow at midnight the following day, the four authors were cold and hungry, it really stepping on the snow easy before returning to hotel. To commemorate the "Mix" (Brigade of Friends) in the expedition, von bosses engage in such a wall inscribed with all routes of donkeys and follow-up activities, namely, re-travelers along this line, the first day of a walk from the Great High Path to the Half Way, Haba Snow Mountain on the following day to complete can the donkey's name was engraved on the wall of a bamboo and get souvenirs - donkey palm. Feng boss hopes to this event bigger and more people in order to introduce this tourist routes, and I wish him success, but unfortunately we have about the first place, there is no time to spend the night here, following this line of.

We eat and drink, regaining strength, ready to move on, I suddenly thought of this inn where another famous tourist attractions - best in the world closets, Lian Manggan each person the toilet. The so-called "best in the world toilet" is because the toilet Rinzan was built out of the window facing the Yulong Snow Mountain, and pour in the Jinsha River Tiger Leaping Gorge, scenery is very beautiful, hence the name. We visited a long time after an absence of exactly when the sun among the clouds, dew a nod, according to the Yulong Snow Mountain, on a golden rock, so-called "sunshine gold hill", but also adds a best in the world the magnificent beauty of the toilet.

It will end account, Xie Feng strike the boss's free tea, and we valiantly mettle once again embark on the journey. This time we really embarked on the High Path, a flat smooth road, surrounded by scenic, if just to experience walking in the Tiger Leaping Gorge hard, then now is a comfortable feeling through Tiger Leaping Gorge. I walked like: If you go to the mountains in front of me carrying a backpack, I Nazhi 65 liters of non-die halfway, but any section of track is estimated that no problem, it seems foreigners can do I can do. However, see below, the fact that I started not understand: the right way because walking on the way met a lot of foreigners, but none of them carrying a large backpack, and a maximum of 40 liters only, I have to ask: their equipment into the Where to?

Here also, incidentally Shu-hui students entrepreneurial spirit. Shu-hui on the uphill, when physical exertion is very large, quite barely momentum, Toshio, and I decided to help her with her backpack, finally only then bag from her and force them to. Now back on the road, I am afraid she was tired again a little later, they rushing to put her bag back, and Zhe Xiake got him into big trouble, Shu-hui way chasing me, Buyiburao's asked me to pack back她. At first I also disagree, the way she was left behind trying to brisk walking, did not expect her tenacity, a temporary cold shoulder does not lose heart, but with hundredfold enthusiasm and commit them to the final victory for women's liberation movement of the great revolutionary movement, finally I Chande Buxing Le put her bag back to back trouble. This constant struggle in the face of adversity and eventually win the spirit of its own legitimate rights and interests of every one of us is worthy of study.

Shu-hui Although not do uphill, downhill is Kathrine and I adhere to the "hard down the mountain easily," the ancient and saw the downhill on the timid heart, because the mountain is just effort to survive, relying on endurance to go on-line continuous upward; down the mountain are relevant to the control of rhythm and pace of the place of choice and deceleration, Yi Gu tremendous effort alone is not enough. If I go into the mountains was "sweating, such as pulp," then down the mountain when the school bell will be, "hard work, sweat would not dare." Shu-hui is not, it began to slope to as Yiliu Yan-like, disappeared among the twinkling of an eye in the mountain paths, the really big eye-opener for me, do not know how to train this skill out of the mountains. Next go to Malaysia when crawling Kinabaru must let her teach me.

This way and went more than an hour, we finished the High Path Shunshundangdang way to the gravel road - here is the tiger jumped - to see the master Liu had been parking there for us. He brought us the bad news: the roads are deep groove in front of large water will cut off his car to drive is not in the past. Our field survey a moment, that's true: gravel roads have been washed down rapids, hobble around in a timber, a single person can barely passed, the car is picking on anyway. That being the case, I think Liu instructors may backtrack from this bridge, and then pass Zhongdian to baishuitai meet us, we have to survive a single-plank bridge, has completed Tiger Leaping Gorge, Haba Snow Mountain and then crossed himself; but just has completed High Path The brothers have the opinion that today a great strain on the car without making backup master Liu, tomorrow climb Haba snow-capped mountains in the odds are against us, or at least very difficult to arrive before dark tomorrow baishuitai, let alone tomorrow night accommodation Zhongdian, I heard that the day after tomorrow is the grand Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the annual festival - the opening ceremony of the Jockey Club Diqing, we do not want to miss this opportunity. I think this idea too, makes sense on a second choice, that is tomorrow, come under the tiger jumped, and then backtrack, in this ground vehicle directly to Zhongdian, to give up crossing the Haba Snow Mountain, also we reverse on the grounds that there is no Hours for viewing the tiger jumped, they finally decided to stay here tonight, tomorrow morning in the tiger jumped down to see the river, came back same route out of Tiger Leaping Gorge to Zhongdian.

So we live in the beautiful tiger jumped Villa, which is woody branches and purpose is to recruit because the big ditch down the road impassable travelers. Landscape is very good, out of the window is the Yulong Snow Mountain and the endless torrent of the river, there's a long terrace can be viewing. Liu set the master gave us a chicken with his own hands gave us good chicken stew, Dali night drinking beer with the chef Liu, Zhang teacher's brother far apart blown night, washed a hot bath, a man in black lacquer paint on the balcony to see anything (I actually did not fall four or five hundred meters kick Ta Kong fell to go down river is also a miracle, so if I had the opportunity to drift Tiger Leaping Gorge, a) looked at the direction of the river torrent sit for a long time, This return to the second floor of the bedroom looked on acoustic lifeless sleep.

June 24: Chinese tiger jump - Zhongdian

The last paragraph of yesterday's Travels Chang teacher and his younger brother, had to explain where their identity and relationships - the relationship between the two of them I have also began to engage in a confused, and then think they finally find out, and now think again Some muddle-headed. I know it is: Teacher Chang was not with his brother, brother, but sworn brothers; Zhang secondary school teachers have taught in the bridge, he's sworn brother, a junior in the local teaching - the so-called "junior" is the mountain inside a simple primary and secondary schools only teach the curriculum for grades 1-4, finished after the fourth grade students have a certain self-care ability of the accommodation and then fled to the mountains outside of the system to read the complete primary school - so this is also a Teacher Chang. Chang since there were two teachers, one another is sworn brothers, I can not figure out how their relationship remains to be familiar with the person Zhijiao 12.

Zhang a teacher many years ago to Tiger Leaping Gorge, inspection, many people travel together, in order to develop tourism in his hometown, the more beautiful the scenery presented to foreign visitors, he was a man in silence to the status exploration, opening up one from the gravel road leading to the tiger jump tiger jumped stone paths, and as far as possible without destroying the natural original premise of lower berth of the stairs, frame the wooden bridge, in the difficult climbing areas set up chain, so that travelers can be down to the tiger tiaoshi possible.

In addition to this Teacher Chang opened up the path, there is a local farmer called the summer of solid silver, and also carried out for a road leading to the tiger jump. Psychology is very solid on this summer and silver contempt that he could think about is making money, not open for the convenience of tourists, but solely in order to make money along the way they carry out a number of damaging the ecological things, changes in the sub-ran the same way, so for him a rather scornful tone, but also allow him the same way his way to pick up Teacher Chang. I have also seen other online User evaluation of solid silver for the summer, saying that he whole business flavor too strong. I have no dealings with him I played, no way to do evaluation, we can only write here at the moment.

Carefree feel to get up extremely early, probably tired after yesterday, but also a sense of reason Haohaodeshui. Villa beauty of a person sitting in the balcony watching the Jinsha River at the foot of muddy torrent of water a daze, until we all got up for breakfast. When they have to start to see a tiger jumping stone, several of the girls are loudly tired, only Shu-hui go along with our five boys, five boys are: Chen Ying, Toshio, Yong Long, Jeffery and I, our guide is to Teacher Chang.

Under the tiger jumped the road in general is also divided into two sections, a section is downhill from the gravel road leading to the riverside; the other one is along the river paths, pass to the tiger jumped stone. To go downhill pretty good, but a physical problem, it may come back uphill, they are less tired and some; the way some small streams, get more slippery the road, may pay attention to safety do not slip; And then there are a relatively steep slope, Teacher Chang beat Tiezhuang pulling wire, visitors can climb down. In addition, downhill nothing particularly dangerous, there is no scenery.

Beautiful scenery along the path from the beginning, of course, where the risk coefficient is also significantly increased. Separated between the mountain and the river rock, to close contact with the mighty river have to walk up the stone. These stones have been washed Rapids for many years, very smooth in some places still a long with slippery moss, and some are floating a layer of wet sand stones, shoes will be a dip slip, where slip is not a joke fell over I could go on , ranging from muscle movement on the bone, while in slippery bath went inside to the Jinsha River. Then the Yangtze first drift warriors sat capsule into the water Shunshundangdang the last tiger jumped over-reach the tiger jumped stone, because of the flood wave here, anxious, there are invisible underwater reef, the results of capsule by pierce, boaters rely on superb whitewater rafting skills to actually be able to escape, climb up the opposite side of the Yulong Snow Mountain a riverside stone platform. There with the side of where we are worlds apart Haba snow-capped mountains, the whole is a sheer precipice, no slope, birds and animals that grew from. The result is trapped in there, get out, and eating with stone walls on the long leaves of the trees at the tree, drinking water, the Jinsha River, is to hang for three days and three nights, the last roundabout around to the opposite side by the local hunters to lay down a rope only then on the Yulong Snow Mountain people to hang up. Unfortunately, later heard that the Warriors have lost their lives in the drift of the Yellow River.

Thanks to the way the teacher Zhang pulling us, and we were able to successfully cross the rocky beach in one piece chaos near the tiger jumped the final stone, but after all, did not go up because the rainy season, rose water, make life difficult, and if it is dry season in winter can be points to the words to their work. But even if not on the tiger jumped stone, we have been completely in the tiger jumped the sublime scenery of the shock: the great roaring rapids in the side down, thrown a mist, thunder rocked the valley, Gudang endless; Standing tall among the rocks in the waves, are the so-called rock-solid; the tiger jumped in the river and the rock is a picture of the melee Si Pin, who did not show weakness, who do not yield, finally pour out endless river Duolu , while the reef is also fight to keep associated with it in the end did not allow for thousands of years. We are all Southerners, but in that same part of the southern Northwest Yunnan feel the vigorous air of the Chinese nation at the moment, to clumsy Lawrence, and destroyed all feel like being in the desert north of the river in general.

Psychology, pointing us to gain a foothold rock tells us: This is an earthquake landslides and rock fall, when the river just in place raft - that is, cut down timber in the upstream mountainous areas after the use of the river is allowed to drift to the downstream to conduct their own the collection - after a number of timber is a stone cave hold him down, until now we can clearly see the wood. Northwest Yunnan is located in Asia and Europe and the Indian Ocean plate occupies a plate belonging to high seismic sections, in our two weeks prior to trip an earthquake just happened Ninglang Xian was also really shocked to Junxiong comrades, almost put me to cancel Lu Lake trip it.

I received minor injuries in the return on the road: In jumps between two boulders and failed to step on a stone opposite a result, two stones fell into the middle to go, and crashed into the opposite leg solidly in stone. Teacher Chang a look at called, bad, and he thought I was definitely broken, and when I watched the stone toward the front leg when hit themselves feel that I can not be broken, but in the end there are those who bless you for peers, but only become a lifelong affliction, it is I feel lucky too, began to suspect that he is not a monk Tang lineage as well as surrounded by six small Rokko protected at all times.

It's that limp, hard-cis-retrace their steps back to the mountain white-faced beauty of Villa, we packed my things, so do not wave to the Tiger Leaping Gorge - of course, did not leave any clothes or clouds - went to Zhongdian County.

Author: stallion