So we took a day to go up to the Tiger Leaping Gorge, but we had an unexpected detour. We went to see the First Turn in the Yangtze River. It is where the river is going south and then all of the sudden it starts going north. This happens hundreds of times in the river but I got to see the first one. I think we were there a total of 30 minutes and it was still too long.
Tiger Leaping Gorge is a big attraction in South China. It is the place to go to when you are going on vacation and guess what….It was only two hours outside of lijiang. Most of the foreigners usually hike the 20km gorge, but we had kids with us. And one of the kids threw up in the van. Luckily, we were going up hill so the puke rolled to the back and not the front where I was sitting. And the miniminivan had a metal floor. So we just had to take a hose to it. There is a picture. It was just like ever other gorge you have seen. And if you haven’t seen a gorge yet, then it was the most beautiful valley that anyone has ever seen. So the reason that they call it tiger leaping gorge is because the legend is that some tiger was travelling to the north or south and he came to the river and guess what happened…he had to LEAP over the river. Well, there is the huge boulder in the middle of the river, and the tiger was unable to make the complete leap across the gorge so he jumped on the boulder and then leaped to the other side. And you know what happened next…..Well, you can look up the story online because I don’t know and I didn’t think that it was interesting enough to ask. The best part of the tour was that there were people from the Hong Kong area and we were at around 8000 feet so the people coming from the coast would have to take a break like every ten steps. There was a step trail to go down to the river and then you had to come back up. And they also sold oxygen canisters for people and tons of people were sucking them down.
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