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,
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