Day 66 Waking for one of Mama's pancakes (which was huge but we struggled through like troopers - especially Rob) we boarded the minibus that was to take us to Qiao Tao and the start of the Tiger Leaping Gorge trek. After getting our tickets for the path we headed up the hill with two groups, ours including Rob, Jillian, Paul, Lindsay, Anya and of course us two and the other a big group from Israel(who were also staying at Mamas). The heat was intense at the start and it was a pretty relentless hill going diagonally up the gorge side, however the scenery just got better and better which helped the walking. As we rounded the headland and entered the gorge we would call home for the next two days, the snow capped peaks
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