Tiger Leaping Gorge

The formation of Baishuitai is attributed to the sedimentation of groundwater rich in calcium carbonate on the surface over the years. The snow-like white, the water-like flow, combined together, gave birth to the poetically named 'Baishuitai'. It is located in the hidden mountains in the south of Lijiang, Yunnan. As one of the largest karst landscapes in China, it seems to be a 'living fossil' inlaid by nature in the world. Scenic Area: Baishuitai Ticket: 30/person Transportation: At present, there is no direct bus to Baishuitai in Lijiang, only self-driving or chartered car, carpooling Recommended tour route: Lijiang Tiger Leaping Gorge Baishuitai → Lijiang (day trip) Lijiang Tiger Leaping Gorge Baishuitai → Shangri-La (you can also go the other way) Other tips: √There is a highway from Lijiang to Tiger Leaping Gorge. After playing in Tiger Leaping Gorge, take the Shangri-La East Ring Line to Baishuitai. The road condition is good, just pay attention to the falling rocks on the mountain side, small cars are no problem √The road from Baishuitai to Shangri-La is still the East Ring Line, which is along the mountain ditch. Except for more bends, the whole journey is a cement road and the road condition is very good There are buses from Lijiang Bus Station to Tiger Leaping Gorge Scenic Area, 30/person √Seeing that Lijiang is crowded recently, there are much fewer people in Shangri-La, and Shangri-La in winter is also super beautiful!

❤️Recommended Reason: The Tiger Leaping Gorge (Shangri-La section) has the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain on its southern bank, with its main peak reaching an altitude of 5596 meters, and the Haba Snow Mountain on its northern bank, with an altitude of 5396 meters. Constrained by the high mountains on both sides, the river narrows to just over 50 meters wide after entering the gorge, and at its narrowest point, a tiger or leopard could leap across, hence the name Tiger Leaping Gorge. The gorge is located on the upper reaches of the Jinsha River, with a total length of 17 kilometers and a winding path of 25 kilometers. With a vertical drop of over 3900 meters, it is one of the deepest gorges in the world. It was once blocked by a landslide, but today large boulders remain, making the water's momentum even more surging. 🌟Highlights: At the place where the water flows most rapidly, the sound of the water is deafening, truly awe-inspiring. For those who do not wish to hike, there is an elevator available, which is divided into three sections, all of which are quite long.

1-2 months in Yunnan, a travel guide without paying 'intelligence tax' ||| Yunnan, which means 'South of the Colorful Clouds', is also named for its location 'South of the Yunling Mountains'. . ✔️Average weather in January 3-17 degrees ✔️Average weather in February 5-20 degrees 💎January-February attire: Due to the large temperature difference between morning and evening in Yunnan, it is advisable to bring warm clothes and a thick coat, so you can add clothing in the morning and evening according to the weather to avoid catching a cold. In addition, you can also bring a sun hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, and an umbrella . ✅Yunnan Attraction Ticket Collection 1. Kunming: Dian Lake, Stone Forest Scenic Area (130 yuan), Xishan (75 yuan including cable car) 2. Dali: Erhai Lake, Nanzhao Style Island (45 yuan), Shuanglang, Xizhou Ancient Town, Dali Ancient City, Cangshan (cable car full journey from 260 yuan) 3. Lijiang: Shuhe Ancient Town, Lijiang Ancient City, Yushui Village (50 yuan), Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (140 yuan for cable car), Blue Moon Valley (including snow mountain ticket), Lugu Lake Scenic Area (70 yuan) 4. Shangri-La: Tiger Leaping Gorge (65 yuan), Haba Snow Mountain, Baishuitai, Songzanlin Scenic Area (90 yuan), Pudacuo National Park (138 yuan including eco-car) 5. Xishuangbanna: CAS Botanical Garden (75 yuan), Wild Elephant Valley (60 yuan), Primitive Forest Park (45 yuan), Dai Nationality Garden (45 yuan) . ✈️How to Buy Discounted Tickets 1. Best time to buy discounted air tickets (1) Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday early morning, and Sunday are generally good times to buy discounted tickets (2) Avoid Fridays, as many business people tend to buy tickets on Fridays. (3) Airline membership days for deals China Southern Airlines: China Southern membership day on the 28th of each month West Air: Pocket money days on the 14th and 28th of each month Air China membership day: Every even-numbered day of the month (January 1st, February 2nd, etc.) China Eastern Airlines membership day: 18th of each month Spring Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, which are less used, can pay attention to their official accounts for promotions, which will be pushed in advance . ✔️Yunnan 6 Days 5 Nights Itinerary Day 1: Fly directly to Kunming from across the country, check into a hotel, and have free time Day 2: Kunming—Jiuxiang—Take a car to—Chuxiong Day 3: Private yacht—Internet celebrity jeep photo tour—Bai nationality garden—Dinner with song and dance Day 4: Dali Ancient City—Foreigner Street—Lashi Sea—Tea Horse Ancient Road—Lijiang Ancient City Day 5: Shuhe Ancient Town—Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Day 6: Kunming—Warm home Tips: If you are a sister visiting Yunnan for the first time and don't want to plan the trip, you can consider joining a local tour group, like the itinerary above, 6 days and 5 nights for about 1300 yuan per person, excluding airfare, with transportation, accommodation, and attraction tickets all taken care of, which is quite convenient and saves trouble

⛰【Travel Guide】 📍Detailed address: Tiger Leaping Gorge hiking route (starting point at Naxi Ya Ge) 🚗Transportation guide: After getting off at Lijiang high-speed train station, you can choose to go to Lijiang Bus Station and take the Tiger Leaping Gorge bus line. Pay attention to arrange your time reasonably, as there are only two buses from Lijiang to Tiger Leaping Gorge. Follow the Lijiang Passenger Transport WeChat public account to keep up with the ticket sales at Lijiang Bus Station. Alternatively, private cars are available at Lijiang high-speed train station, just ask and you can get a ride, but this is more cumbersome as it requires multiple transfers to reach the starting point of the hike at Naxi Ya Ge. 🕙Opening hours: All day 💰Ticket price: The hiking route charges 45, and in 2024, those born in the Year of the Dragon 🐉 are free 🌟Highlights: Off-the-beaten-path route, popular with hikers, charming scenery, very relaxing, high mountains ⛰️ and canyons, snow-capped mountains 🏔️ standing beside, offering a soul-stirring and extraordinary experience. It's a hiking route in Yunnan worth visiting, selected by National Geographic magazine, so it definitely won't disappoint 📌Little Tips: 1. The hiking route is quite challenging and requires personal endurance, so proceed according to your ability. 2. Plan your trip in advance, there are many supply points along the way, not suitable for those with a fear of heights, and hiking also has certain risks, so please check the weather and other external factors beforehand. 3. Try to choose regular transportation channels to avoid multiple transfer costs. 4. If you just want to enjoy the scenery, you can also choose the less challenging Tea Horse Inn as the starting point, which costs a bit more money, but the journey from the Tea Horse Inn to the midway inn is very nice. All of the above are based on personal experience and are for reference only.

🌈 Say goodbye to the crowds and enjoy tranquility and uniqueness. This May Day holiday, let's travel in the opposite direction! 🎈 1⃣ The Northwest Grand Loop, away from the hustle and bustle, embrace nature! Grasslands, snow-capped mountains, sunrises, starry skies, and Tibetan intangible cultural heritage await your experience. 🎈 2⃣ Henan's hidden gems, beautiful in all seasons. Spring has seas of flowers, summer offers a cool escape, autumn for red leaves, winter for ice waterfalls, like a fairyland on earth. 🎈 3⃣ Guangdong Huizhou's version of the 'Maldives', with crystal clear glassy seas, niche islands, few people and beautiful scenery, a perfect choice for a weekend getaway. 🎈 4⃣ Qiandongnan, a filming location for Lonely Planet, with picturesque terraced fields and a slow-paced life waiting for you to experience. 🎈 5⃣ Chongzuo, a small town on the China-Vietnam border, a hidden beauty like a peach blossom utopia, where every snapshot is a masterpiece. 🎈 6⃣ Hiking through Tiger Leaping Gorge, one of the top ten hiking trails in the world, with spectacular canyons and the raging Jinsha River, a soul-stirring experience. 🎈 7⃣ Seda, the 'Buddhist Kingdom in the Sky', with red houses scattered across the mountains, a visual and spiritual shock, a Tibetan Buddhist holy place not to be missed. 🎈 8⃣ Wenchang Rocket Launch Site, witness the moment of China's rocket launch, with blue seas and skies, few people and beautiful scenery. 🎈 9⃣ Summer starry sky route in Tibet, at an altitude of 5000+, a dual challenge for the body and soul, with holy lakes, snow-capped mountains, and the most beautiful starry sky waiting for you to explore. 💫 This May Day, take the road less traveled and explore these super cool niche travel destinations together!🌟

Choosing to come to Lijiang in spring was definitely the right decision!!! My friends had long told me that I must visit Yunnan for its incredibly beautiful scenery, and I chose Lijiang for my trip to Yunnan. Before coming, I was really worried that altitude sickness would disrupt the rest of my trip, but after arriving, I found that the biggest impact was actually my own lack of physical stamina. 1 I chose a relatively easy route, Blue Moon Valley. I'm quite grateful that although it was an overcast day, there was occasional sunshine, making the lake water shimmer like jewels under the sun, framed by the snow-capped mountains like a scene from a movie. I didn't arrange any subsequent itinerary, so I could take a leisurely stroll around the lake to enjoy the beautiful scenery. Before leaving, I kept taking live photos, saying I'd take one last look. 2 Finally, I arrived at Tiger Leaping Gorge. Starting from halfway to the Middle Tiger Leaping, I marveled at the scenery I had never seen before all along the way. From Mr. Zhang's guesthouse to the Middle Tiger Leaping, it was pure mountain climbing with strong winds and lots of dust. By the end, my pants, shoes, mask, and nostrils were all covered in dust, and even the water I drank was mixed with dirt. This part of the journey also resulted in cuts on my hands and a swollen knee, making it difficult to climb stairs the next day. The kindness of strangers who gave me a mask and band-aids reminded me that there is true kindness in the world. 3 I chose to wander around Lijiang Ancient Town, where the vegetation coverage far exceeds that of other cookie-cutter ancient towns. Walking through the ancient town and admiring the flowers was like strolling through a park. Spending is entirely up to oneself, and my most satisfying purchase was Jiahua fresh flower cakes and Dongba paper.

The previous article provided a two-day guide for Tiger Leaping Gorge, but some of you may not have enough time and only plan to spend one day, or you may not have the physical stamina but still want to take some cool photos. Then this article is for you—a relaxed one-day hiking guide to Tiger Leaping Gorge. Without further ado, let's look at the route (map at the end). This route is more suitable for self-driving: 1. Leave Lijiang by car in the morning and head to 'Meet Halfway' at Tiger Leaping Gorge. The drive takes about 2 hours and parking is free, but the mountain roads are quite narrow, and you may need to reverse into the parking lot at the entrance. 2. After parking, you can walk back a bit along the high line to take photos and check in. There's no need to go too far; there are two bends that are particularly photogenic. 3. After checking in, return to the parking spot and continue walking down towards the halfway direction to take more photos. 4. Coming out from halfway, continue walking forward to check in at the small waterfall. 5. This is basically the end of the check-in spots. Head back to the car pick-up point and go to Teacher Zhang's. 6. Arrive at Teacher Zhang's Inn and take Teacher Zhang's trail down to the middle of Tiger Leaping Gorge to check in! 7. The return trip uphill is a bit challenging. If you feel energetic, you can return the same way. If you're not afraid of heights, you can climb the 168 steps of the Brave Man's Ladder for a more fun experience! Tips: Although this route doesn't involve much hiking, the schedule is quite tight. Time arrangement: It is recommended to depart at 8:30 am, have lunch at halfway around noon, and return to Lijiang before evening. Equipment recommendations: Sun protection!!! Focus on sun protection, followed by looking good. Wear whatever looks best because the route is not very challenging. Just consider sun protection, including a hat, sunglasses, a windbreaker, an outdoor backpack, and trekking poles.

Getting There - we hired a driver that took us from Shangri-La to the start of the hiking next to the highway, we noticed that this is also possible by taking a bus but since we sleep over in Halfway was convenient to have a driver that would pickup us the day after at Tina’s guesthouse with our luggage Attractions - beautiful and challenging hiking with lot of wonderful landscapes, the first day we started to hike around 9:30 in the morning and finished around 7 pm when we arrived to Halfway guests house, the second day we started around 10 am to get to Tina guesthouse around lunch time where we started a new hiking to descend to the bottom of the middle tiger leaping Gorge, this was outstanding and with very less people (to access here you will have to pay a fee to the families that are helping to keep the trial in conditions, in total you might have to pay around 30 rmb) Hotels - Halfway guesthouse the first night and Tina guesthouse if you want to stay one more day, in our case our driver took us Felei right after. Food & Restaurants - Shopping - #waterfall#naturalwonders#hiking#nationalpark#lakes

At first glance of the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the phrase that immediately comes to mind is 'an unstoppable force'. Here at Tiger Leaping Gorge, it should be changed to 'an unthinkable force' or 'an unspeakable force'. In the face of the 'force' of Tiger Leaping Gorge, one simply cannot think of the word 'stop', nor can one utter it. In fact, you wouldn't dare to say the word 'stop'. Upon arriving at Tiger Leaping Gorge and stepping onto the viewing platform, I was dumbstruck for several minutes at first sight. I was completely overwhelmed by its presence: was it shock? Awe? Reverence? Fear? Submission? It seems like all of them, yet none of them at the same time. Anyway, I can't clearly describe the psychological feeling I had standing in front of Tiger Leaping Gorge.

If you want to go to Tiger Leaping Gorge scenic area, collect this guide for non-hikers to drive to Tiger Leaping Gorge. 🚗Drive for an hour and a half from Lijiang Ancient City to reach the ticket office of the scenic area. 🎫Purchase scenic area tickets and parking tickets (students are free in January). It is recommended to buy tickets for the escalator (45 yuan per ticket, 50 yuan for the escalator, and 5 yuan for parking). 🔺Then drive six kilometers into the scenic area to reach Upper Tiger Leaping Gorge, park your car, and walk for about twenty minutes to reach the Big Tiger viewing platform. Here you can enjoy the majestic scenery and the roar of the river hitting the rocks and the shore. Then follow the walking plank road to enjoy the unique beauty of Tiger Leaping Gorge. 🔺Then you can take the escalator up. The escalator has four sections, with three viewing points. You can stop to take photos and videos, and you can also take free photos (2 inches free, 8 inches 20 yuan per piece). After taking the escalator, you can pick up the photos at the photo collection point. 🔺It takes just over an hour to complete the whole process of Tiger Leaping Gorge. (Middle Tiger Leaping Gorge and Lower Tiger Leaping Gorge are hiking routes, you can skip them if you don't hike). Then you can drive to the next destination!

Starting our trip in Lijiang, Yunnan, and ending at Tina’ house is a popular choice for many hikers. #mytripvlog The timing of our hike during the Dragon Boat Festival and rainy season could have been challenging, but we were fortunate to only encounter light rain on the first day. This made the trail less muddy and more comfortable than expected, which is always a bonus when hiking. One of the advantages of hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge is the presence of vendors along the trail. They offer opportunities to recharge and refuel, particularly before tackling the famous 28 bends. The availability of signals and arrows throughout the trail makes navigation easy, ensuring that hikers don't get lost. Additionally, the locals with horses provide further assistance for those who may require help ascending the trail. This is beneficial for those who want to conserve their energy or have physical limitations. Choosing to stay overnight at the Horse Tea Hotel, a few kilometers before the Halfway House, was a wise decision. It allowed us to have a more relaxed and easier start for the following day's hike, ensuring that we had energy to continue our journey. Overall, we had a wonderful experience hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge. It's a stunning natural wonder with breathtaking views!

The journey from Lijiang to Shangri-La via the eastern ring road is 263 kilometers in total. The situation on March 29, 2024, is as follows: 1️⃣ The first section, from Lijiang to Tiger Leaping Gorge, is 88 kilometers, taking the Dali Expressway, Xiangli Expressway, and the Western Scenic Line, and it takes about 1.5 hours. Since the route is mostly highways and the rest are national roads, 💯 the road conditions are very good. 🌈 The altitude also drops from 2300 meters in Lijiang to 1823 meters at Tiger Leaping Gorge, so there is no discomfort felt. 2️⃣ The second section, from Tiger Leaping Gorge to White Water Terraces, is 78 kilometers, taking the eastern ring road, and it takes about 1.5 hours. The road was newly built last year and is in good condition, but there are many zigzag turns, so be sure to drive carefully. ✅ If you haven't bought a ticket for Tiger Leaping Gorge, you can still pass through here, but the time cannot exceed 40 minutes. 🌈 The altitude at White Water Terraces is 2530 meters, and you won't feel uncomfortable. 🌈 Along this route, pay attention to the viewing platforms to see the Upper Tiger Leaping Gorge, Middle Tiger Leaping Gorge, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Haba Snow Mountain; the scenery is very beautiful. 3️⃣ The third section, from White Water Terraces to Shangri-La, is 97 kilometers, taking the eastern ring road, and it takes about 2 hours. The first half still has many zigzag roads, but the condition of the road is good. After reaching Pudacuo National Park, the road is very easy to travel on, all being dual carriageways. 🌈 The altitude near the Dukezong Ancient Town in Shangri-La is 3268 meters, and it is best to book an oxygen-enriched room (a room with oxygen equipment), which will be more comfortable. 🌈 On the way, you will pass by Pudacuo National Park, and whether you enter depends on your time schedule. We didn't go in because it was already 17:00 when we arrived, and it's also not the right season currently.