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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Lijiang, China by TravelPod blogger Youngtravellers titled “Tiger Leaping Gorge” Youngtravellers’s travel blog entry: “Our dear friend Emily visited China some years ago and just loved Tiger Leaping Gorge, so I thought it was a good place to go and looked forward to it. Little did I know that I was once again signing myself up for a mountain trek. And that part of it would be a horrendous uphill climb. Travis only fed me morsels until just before we left, and even as we started I didn’t think the 24 bend path would be THAT bad. Really, it wasn’t, but I don’t like climbing and I generally like to complain to Travis about our trekking. Mama Naxi had a bus take us to the trek’s starting point. A two hour drive ended up being three hours and we didn’t actually start trekking until nearly 1 in the afternoon. That put us behind schedule to begin, but we still started off eagerly. The first climb was relatively flat and took us over fields and through the ends of Qiaotou village. Across the river we could see the greens and yellows of the vegetable fields. Already it was a beautiful picture, and we weren’t even in the gorge. The first ascent was slow, and the Yangtse was the same dark turquoise as it had been in the Three Gorges. I was determined to cut down the two hour time estimate to our lunch point, so we hauled right through. We ended up doing 1 hr 40 minutes, but it would have been more enjoyable if I’d just relaxed and …
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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Lijiang, China by TravelPod blogger Glyn titled “Jade Dragon Snow Mountain” Glyn’s travel blog entry: “Got up and went to the place I’ve been going too for the last few days whilst in Lijiang for breakfast and had a banana and chocolate pancake – the backpackers favourite. Then walked to the bus station north of the water wheels where the Belgians had said to walk too in order to catch the No.7 bus to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain which lies about 20km to the north of Lijiang as they mentioned on the tour to Tiger Leaping Gorge, yesterday, that you can take a cable car all the way up to where the snow is. I found a No.7 bus straight away, got on and sat on the drivers side as I knew that the mountain would be on this side as we travelled towards it. I took a while for us to get going but then we set off and we reached the entrance to the mountain park where three uniformed people got on the bus with tickets. It costs some Y190 (14 GBP) to enter the park and then you have to pay extra for the cable car so today wasn’t going to be that cheap but hey, how many times do you get to go up a mountain without gasping for breathe? One Chinese girl on the bus seemed to be having a right old heated conversation with the officials over something – probably the price of things, no doubt. Anyway, the bus continued to a visitors centre where we all got off and I bought a ticket for the cable car – another170 which included Y20 for …
