TLG Photos

I promised to put some pictures from our wonderful Tiger Leaping Gorge Trek, and here they are. The first is of us before the trek, smelling great and without any mud on our shoes! The start of the track was pretty difficult to find. Luckily we met some German/Swiss travellers who had downloaded the track onto their GPS!




The first day was pretty easy, although mostly uphill. We walked with the aforementioned Swiss/German travellers, one of whom was eleven years old. A Chinese farmer thought he was on a winner and followed us for kilometres with his donkey in case Josi, the eleven-year-old, became tired. He followed us to our first overnight stop without any luck!



This is just one of dozens of photos I took along the way. The difference in topography from the Yangtze River to the top of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is about 2km. That's impressive.




Upon arrival at our first overnight stop, Naxi Guesthouse, the lady running the place sat us all down, flustered and muddy, and offered us green mint tea. It was one of the most welcoming places we had stayed in for a while, and it almost felt like a shame to be on our way again early the next morning. We met a few ex-pats based in Shanghai who were happy to stay perched at the edge of the gorge with a good book indefinitely.




Daniel, a German ex-pat with whom we spent the first day, showed us his Chinese visa. Although it's officially proper English, we still had a chuckle!


More photos to come, I've discovered you can only upload five photos at once on Blogger.