Blogs from Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan, China, Asia - page 7

" A beautful flower does not bloom forever" - Naxi proverb So we (me Kathy and Mikk) got up at 6:30am to catch the bus from the new town at 7:20am for Tiger LEaping Gorge. We locked our bags at the youth hostel ( including some of my valuables which probably might not have been the smartest idea but it seemed like it at the time). We got a taxi for 6RMB and arrived at the bus station at 7:10am. Quickly brought a wholesome breakfast of bread and ice cream for breakfast and two bottles of water and headed for the bus. Fell asleep on the bus (while I was asleep Mikk had a fan club on the bus that said he looked like Tom Cruise). We finally got to the start of the gorge and ... read more

Het werd dus woensdag de 14e mei dat we naar de TLG afreisde vanuit Lijiang. S0-Phi was weer lekker opgeknapt maar nu was Patries aan de beurt voor een feestje in haar maag- en darmstelsel. Deze keer in combinatie met een steile klim in de TLG dus een ieder kan zich voorstellen dat dit even afzien was... We begonnen de 1e dag wel met mooi weer wat garant stond voor vele mooie uitzichten in de gorge. Na ca 4 uur hiken (we took the shortcut) kwamen we moe maar voldaan op GuestHouse Halfway aan. Gezellig bijpraten (vele nieuwe reistips) onder het genot van een biertje met lotgenoten uit Duitsland, N-Zeeland en SingaPore EN een mevrouw uit Nijmegen. (It's a small world after all!) Op 2700 mtr hoogte nog een aangepast hapje eten en slapen op Spartaanse ... read more

Der Tiger Leaping Gorge am Yang Tse ist mit 3900m eine der tiefsten Schluchten der Welt, und der wohl berühmteste Trek Chinas. Ich entschied mich, mangels geeigneter Ausrüstung (wie fester Schuhe), jedoch dafür den Gorge mit dem Fahrrad zu erkunden. Laut Lonely Planet sollte es eine neue, vollständig geteerte Straße geben, die zwischen dem Wanderweg und dem Fluss für 23 km bis nach Walnut Grove führt. Diese Straße sollte jedoch leider auch ein Tummelplatz für unzählige Tourbusse sein, die die Atmosphäre kaputt machen würden. Beide Informationen waren jedoch schlichtweg falsch. Eine durchgehend geteerte Straße gibt es lediglich bis zu einem Aussichtspunkt nach ca. 10 km, wo die einheimischen Tourgruppen hingekarrt werden. Ab diesem Punkt verwandelte sich die sehr hügelige, teilweise spektakulär in den Fels gehauene Straße für einige Kilometer in eine schmale, steinige Piste auf der ... read more

Tiger Leaping Gorge - Jan 08 We booked a coach one day from Lijiang for the following morning to make our way to Quintao, the start of the Tiger Leaping Gorge trek. We got on the bus with other tourists all looking to do the same thing, we were worried about who our company would be for the next two days ( remembering the nightmare aussie couple in Nepal ) but on this occasssion we got lucky ! We did have another Aussie couple, but this time they were really nice people ,also another Aussie lady, an American guy and a nice bloke from South London who we got on with really well. We started our climb up about 10:00am on the first day, it was really steep in places and hard work in the sun, ... read more

I arrived in the village of Qiaotou which is in effect the beginning of the Tiger Leaping Gorge on Wednesday afternoon. Due to my arriving at this time there was no point in beginning trekking that day and I therefore checked myself into a guest house at the foot of the track which leads up to the gorge. There didn't seem to be many other people about and I killed most of the afternoon reading. I'm not very experienced at trekking and had been told that the trek is best done with a partner. One of the main reasons for this is obviously from a safety point of view. Over the years there have been accidents in the gorge some of which have cost people their lives. I was therefore very happy to meet another traveller, ... read more