The Tiger Leaping Gorge attractions are introduced as follows:
Tiger Leaping Gorge, famous for its danger, is one of the deepest canyons in China. Tiger Leaping Gorge has Shangri-La section and Lijiang section and the points, and Shangri-La Tiger Leaping Gorge is a national AAAA level tourism scenic spot, it includes the upper, middle and lower Tiger Leaping Gorge, highway trekking line. Among them, the Tiger Leaping Gorge hiking line is known as one of the world's top ten classic hiking routes, mainly by the high road hiking line and the middle Tiger Leaping Gorge hiking line consists of two major parts.
Tiger Leaping Gorge is located in Tiger Leaping Gorge Town of Shangri-La City, 96 kilometers from Shangri-La City and 80 kilometers from Lijiang City. It is in the northeast of Longbang Township, Yulong Naxi Autonomous County (formerly Lijiang Naxi Autonomous County), Yunnan Province.
Geographic location of attractions
Tiger Leaping Gorge is located in the southeastern part of Zhongdian, 105 kilometers away from Zhongdian County, 35 kilometers away from the First Bay of Yangtze River, which is divided into 3 sections of Upper Tiger Leaping, Middle Tiger Leaping, and Lower Tiger Leaping, and **** 18 dangerous beaches. The narrowest part of the river is only more than 30 meters, the river was Yulong, Haba two big snow mountain hostage, altitude difference of more than 3900 meters. The depth of the canyon is among the deepest in the world.
From the town of Tiger Leaping Gorge through the Chongjiang River hole Haba Snow Mountain foothills down the river, you can enter the canyon. On the Tiger jump from the Tiger Leaping Gorge town 9 kilometers, is the entire canyon in the narrowest section, the width of the gorge only dang more than a meter. There is a 13-meter-high boulder in the center of the river - Tiger Leaping Stone, the boulder is like a lone peak, standing alone, the river and the boulder fight each other, the mountains and valleys roar, the momentum is extraordinary.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tiger Leaping Gorge Scenic Spot
Sentences describing the Tiger Leaping Gorge
1, Tiger Leaping Gorge of the river, like a churning dragon.
2. The vast Yangtze River is squeezed into a small stream here, to be pinched off.
3, the essence of the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the sharp point of the "sword" - on the Tiger Leaping.
4, revealing the unruly nature of the overturned river, you push me and shove to be the first.
5, such as ten thousand horses running a thousand pythons dancing vigorously, the sky and the mountains swept away!
6, the canyon in a huge black stone lying in the river, the river water constantly impact on the boulder.
7. The sound of the waves of the river and the boulder was ringing in my ears, and a thousand piles of snow were being rolled up.
8, I stood at the bottom of the valley, facing this magnificent picture, this pounding momentum.
9, to the strange and majestic known in the world of the Tiger Leaping Gorge, where you can glance at its spectacular beauty.
10, Tiger Leaping Stone, the boulder is like a lone peak protruding, standing alone.
11, the river and the boulders fight with each other, the mountains and valleys roar, the momentum is extraordinary.
What is the landform of Tiger Leaping Gorge
The main peak of Tiger Leaping Gorge scenic area is as high as 5,596 meters above sea level, and the north bank of Haba Snow Mountain is 5,396 meters above sea level.
Tiger Leaping Gorge geomorphic landscape is in the upper reaches of the Jinsha River, located in Yunnan Province, Lijiang Naxi Autonomous County, northeast of Shigu, a large canyon. To the east are the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and to the west are the Diqing Haba Snow Mountain. Tiger Leaping Gorge on the mouth of the gorge at an altitude of 1800m, the mouth of the lower gorge at an altitude of 1630m, the canyon vertical height difference of 3790m.
The river in the gorge continuously fell 7 steep canyon, the drop of 170m, the water is rough, the sound of miles, for the world's one of the deepest Grand Canyon. The narrowest part of the river is only 30 meters. Legend has it that a tiger descends from the mountain, and a slight leap on the river's rock will enable it to cross the river in the air, so it is called the Tiger Leaping Gorge. Reefs in the gorge, there are 21 dangerous beaches, up to 10 meters of the drop can 7, 10 waterfalls.
Main attractions
Jinsha River from north to south, all the way straight down, with the Lancang River, the Nujiang River parallel and parallel to the flow of the Lijiang Drum, "the first bay of the Yangtze River," the Jinsha River turned to the left all the way to the east, from the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and the Haba Snow Mountain between the passage, in the ground to split one of the world's deepest gorges!
Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Tiger Leaping Gorge convergence of snow-capped mountains, canyons, rivers and other scenes, is one of the six major tourist areas in Yunnan Province, "Western Yunnan Shangri-La ecotourism area" is an important part of the heart of the natural heritage of the three rivers. The scenic area brings together snow-capped mountains, canyons, rivers, Huazhuan Terrace and other landscapes.
Tiger Leaping Gorge attractions
Tiger Leaping Gorge is the world's famous Grand Canyon, known as the world's most dangerous and majestic. It is divided into the upper Tiger Leaping, the middle Tiger Leaping and the lower Tiger Leaping three sections, many dangerous beaches, the river in the Yulong, Haba two snow-capped mountains under the confrontation flow forward, extraordinary momentum. Tiger Leaping Gorge has always been to "dangerous" and famous throughout the world. Here is first of all the mountain insurance. Both sides of the canyon, high mountains stand. East of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, all year round Phi cloud wearing snow, silver peaks in the sky, the main peak elevation of up to 5,596 meters, the waist of the strange stone cymbals, ancient vines coiled knot, the foot of the wall, plunged into the bottom of the river, tigers whistling apes cry, wolves and leopards infested; West of the Habba Snow Mountain, the lofty sudden redness of the mountain waist between the terrace, the foot of the mountain for the precipitous cliffs. West coast peaks, more than 3,000 meters above the river. Domestic three gorges, the world called spectacular, its river surface and peak height difference, only 1500 meters; Hell's Canyon in the United States, the world-famous, the maximum height difference, only 2400 meters, it's deep, it can be seen! Tiger Leaping Gorge is not only deep, and narrow, many places, double peaks want to close, such as the door is half open; into the valley, look at the sky a seam, look at the river a dragon; head of the wall, feet facing the rapids, it is frightening. Secondly, the water is dangerous, due to the fault collapse of the mountain rock, resulting in countless stone beams fell can, coupled with steep slopes on both sides of the mountain, rocky cliffs, rock weathering, boulders perennial collapse of the valley floor, the formation of the river reefs, crisscrossed, dense dangerous beaches, waterfalls. From the upper Tiger Leaping Gorge to the mouth of the lower gorge, the drop of 210 meters, an average of 14 meters per kilometer, the river is particularly rapid, many paragraphs, up to six to eight meters per second. Thus, the river water posture, changing rapidly, or wildly, rock chaotic water excitement, snow waves, or whirlpool roll, waterfalls roar, fog and air. Constitutes the world's rare landscape wonders.
The Tiger Leaping Gorge Valley world danger. Although this brings inconvenience to navigation, but this "danger" but contains a kind of beauty, a kind of heart-stopping beauty, attracted domestic and foreign tourists to this search for the danger. If you enter the gorge from Lijiang Daguo, down the platform, along the path around the foot of the mountain, up to the lower tiger jump. Dangerous cliffs on both sides of the wall, in the 30-meter wide river, but also stands four or five meters high tiger jumping stone. The river from both sides pouring down, as if a tiger downhill, the wind and lightning, the water into the shot, the valley roar.
Crossing the river on the mountain, along the side of the middle of the mountain path climbing up the steep slopes of a small village called "Walnut Garden", residents of the slate cover houses. To the Tiger Leaping Gorge pedestrians, often in this unique flavor of the village to stay. When the night is quiet, in the blazing fire side lying down to rest, the river's rushing, strong wind and the sound of the pine waves mixed together, vaguely make people feel the impact of the wild waves on the gorge and the slight tremor, as if sleeping in a boat sailing in the waves, there is an unusually fresh feeling.
Not far from the walnut garden village, rugged mountain road suddenly appeared a huge deep ditch: towering clouds of the Haba Snow Peak, like a giant head chopped an axe, leaving a knife cut "like a deep valley. Pedestrians have to climb from the side of the deep valley, carefully down to the bottom of the cliff, and from the bottom of the rock on hands and knees, climbed up the hill, soaked in sweat, only to cross a straight line only dozens of feet away. Further ahead, across the river on the wall, can be seen vaguely by the wind and rain erosion of the formation of Naxi women side shadow, seems to be in the mountains galloping, the local people called this side shadow for the "Achang local rice". Legend has it that she rode a white horse, is patrolling the mountains, in the event of vicious beasts out to harm people and animals, will call out loudly. Magical imagination, magnificent scenery, to the mountains and rivers scenery added a charming color.
Continuing forward, to the "tiger jump". Here drink cliffs empty, or straight to the sky, or slant to the mouth of the river, wide and voluminous river, encountered the cliffs of the squeeze and block, it seems to become angry, it gathered strength, to the cliffs and rocks continue to launch the impact of the raging waves, waterfalls in the air, the air valley roar, the sound shocked the valley. The bottom of the river waves cracked shore, cliff head springs. When you in the Haba Snow Mountain waist, along the wall stirrups carefully climbed, often encountered waterfalls, waterfalls, swept from the top of you, as if into the waterfall cave.
Traveling along the mountain road, feet to the width of the trail suddenly rise and fall, under the feet of the unfathomable cliffs, the bottom of the valley is the roar of the waves, the head is whistling past the strong river wind, forcing people close to the root of the rock, be careful to move forward, occasionally touching down a stone, such as the nine flying fall, a long time before I saw it into the river center of the waves! Walked through the steep wall with slanting cans, a silver stream, flashing into the bottom of the eye, this is "on the tiger jump". Just see the two mountains face, shaped like two iron gates, in the middle of the green and black tiger jumping stone, like a fierce general gatekeeper. Jinsha River from his sides over the cliff, flying down in the air, with the force of thunder and lightning to the bottom of the cliff, and bouncing up, the formation of ten thousand snow-white crystalline waves, then turned into silver rain mist, wetting the surrounding rocks and grass. Under the cliff, a thousand waves, boiling, circling and rolling, such as a thousand mosquito dragon stirring the lake and the sea, like ten thousand silver horses galloping, and then ride the wind and go. In the face of this magnificent picture, the momentum of this pound, people overflowed with gas. Qing dynasty Yongqian at the time of the Yunnan poet Sun Mane Weng, in the "Jinsha River" poem wrote: split open the good city axe without trace, out of the plough cow to Li Run. A line in the sky as a moat, the two mountains clip bucket stone for the door. The magnificent scenery of Tiger Leaping Gorge attracts a large number of domestic and foreign "backpackers" to hike here. It is the entrance to the Tiger Leaping Gorge in Xinyi, Guangdong, where strange stones are piled up in a thousand shapes and forms, and people can only walk among the rocks, as if they were in the group of strange birds and beasts. From here to the "Tiger's Mouth" Sagan cliffs stretching, here on both sides of the cliffs towering, the middle of the turbulent water murmuring. The left side of the river there is the immortal bridge, is modeled after the Sichuan trestle chiseled stone opened into the pedestrian path, rugged and narrow, on the prominent rock cover, below the abyss, which is a good place to exercise the courage of the people. In the past, the new bride sedan chair to return to her husband's home, the practice is not on the way out of the sedan chair; but here, you have to make an exception to get out of the sedan chair and walk, and then take the sedan chair after this dangerous road, so it is also known as the bridge for newcomers. Under the bridge is a deep pool, the old name of the big rock, it is said that fishermen also do not measure its depth, fat fish to catch endless, rocky cliffs on a stone cave, called the big king cave, also known as the "wing king palace", once for the local yao people's leader meat wing king lived. Ming Wanli four years (1576) in the battle of Luobun, where he fought against the Governor Ling Yunyi dispatched by the Gaozhou Senator Chen ___ of the conquest, died heroically. Yao people built a temple in Hujiakou to commemorate him, and now the temple has been abolished.
The tiger jumps in the realm of the golden lock, stone lions, barns, salt warehouses, stone elephants, the sword platform and other attractions, the riverbanks have immortal beds, gates and other monuments. Nearby is the "five horses to the trough" famous mountain, attracting countless tourists, leaving many beautiful poems. Liu Ruxin, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem: "The azalea cries blood and dyes the flowers, and the water fights for the beautiful stone gorges. I want to find the spring spring silence, ask the flowers bloom for who red. From Lijiang city westbound to 214 national highway, and then along the national highway all the way north, over the Jinshajiang River Bridge, from the side of Zhongdian northbound more than 10 kilometers to Qiaotou, Lijiang to Qiaotou 99 kilometers. Or 96 kilometers south from Zhongdian County can also be to Qiaotou, Qiaotou is also known as "Tiger Leaping Gorge Town".
Qiaotou is a river in the east, north-south long and narrow market town, the town east of this Chongjiang River because of the rush into the Jinsha River named.
Passenger station in the town dam, Lijiang, Zhongdian buses are here on and off passengers, want to rent a car into the Tiger Leaping Gorge, but also here to find a miniature cab; the town north east side of the highway arch bridge across the Chongjiang River, across the bridge is the scenic area of the ticket station, from which will be entered on the Tiger Leaping, where looking up to the snowy top of the visible Yulong Mountain, due to the body of the Haba Mountains, can not see the peak of the Haba Mountains. After the ticket station a short distance ahead, you can see the north of the Chongjiang River into the south of the Jinsha River, in this vast turn to the northeast flow, crashed into the huge gap between the Haba Snow Mountain and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, cut a long and narrow deep valley, which is the famous Grand Canyon - Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Walking along the gravel road, on the right side you will see a prancing stone tiger, even the base is about 3 meters high, which is the iconic stone sculpture shape into the Tiger Leaping Gorge. From this to go in, will enter the Grand Canyon, you are now in the side of the Haba Snow Mountain, the north bank of the Jinsha River through the gorges on the road, the river on the other side of the towering peaks is the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. This is another part of the adventure process after crossing the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
From Tiger Leaping Gorge over Haba Mountain to Baishuitai there are two roads.
One is to walk from the valley on the northeast side of Haba Mountain to Haba Village and then to Baishui Terrace, which takes about one day.
The other one goes over a yakou of Haba Mountain, which takes 3-4 days, and passes through Ice Daban, Bent Sea, Dajianshan Ping Ranch and Haba Village on the way, and finally to Baishui Terrace, the holy land of Naxi Dongba, which will climb from the lower Tiger Jump at about 1,700 meters of altitude to the yakou of Haba Snow Mountain, which is at about 4,750 meters of altitude.
Haba Snow Mountain has unpredictable weather, complex geology, dangerous slopes and strange rocks, as well as pseudo-glaciers and swampy zones. Although the scenery along the way is fantastic, you should have a familiar guide or be organized by a professional company, and you must be well-prepared for the journey. After crossing the ferry, you will be on the side of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Take the "zigzag" mountain road up a mountain beam, along a wide road can be straight into the big tool.
In this section of about 10 kilometers of road, to the Tiger Leaping Gorge, look back, can see two snow-capped mountains face each other at the same time, the left side of a sharp cliff is the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the right side of the peak of the seat is slightly flat is the Haba Snow Mountain, the two snow-capped mountains between the dark shadows of the place is that you out of the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the two snow-capped peaks than shoulder to shoulder comparable to the beauty of the picture with the eyes can be framed in the mind.
There is such an interesting local legend: the Jade Dragon and Haba two brothers to stop the Sands sister to the East, blocking the road to take turns on duty to guard, but the turn of the day Haba guard, he was intoxicated by the sister's song, do not fall asleep, wake up to find that the Sands sister has long been flowing eastward for 10,000 miles, the brother of the Jade Dragon had to cut the head of the brother of the Haba, so today you still see the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain with the "head", Haba Snow Mountain "hidden head".
Daguo is an ancient Naxi town, in the south of the town there is a four-square Tuping Square, east of the square is the "Tiger Leaping Gorge Inn" and "Jinshajiang Inn", which is the best conditions in the Daguo, but also often chosen by the tourists of the inn; square north is the food administration of the shopping mall and guest house. North of the square is the shopping mall and guest house of the Food Administration; West of the square is the very flavorful "Qixia Restaurant"; South of the square is a row of small department stores and amusement parks, and the streets of Daguo are scattered from the square to the four sides of the extension of the square. Look at this square square you will feel similar, it and Lijiang's Sifang Street, Shuhe's Sifang Street are extremely similar, but it is more simple, is the soil ping.
From the four square square of Daguo, to Shuhe's four square streets, and then to Lijiang Ancient City's four square streets, you will see the Naxi people to "square bazaar" to nurture the characteristics of the town, and to see a track from the rural towns and gradually to the city development. The walnut garden is the next tiger jump, the mouth of the gorge gradually open, can feel the imminent out of the gorge.
There are two choices after leaving the gorge: one is to cross the Jinsha River and take a bus back to Lijiang; the other is to continue the hiking adventure over the Haba Snow Mountain to Baishuitai, and travel to Zhongdian.
Transportation of the Jinsha River and there are two ferry, one in the walnut garden about 5 kilometers away, choose this ferry can see the "high gorges out of the lake", another ferry from the walnut garden about 10 kilometers away from the gorges out of the mouth of the river and then along the river to a section of the front to.
A yellow English sign on the side of the gravel road will guide you to the turnoff for the first ferry. About half an hour down to the river, look at this section of the river you will have two impressions: one is very wide, the second is very quiet, in addition to the river on both sides of the towering peaks or features in the canyon, which is very different from what you see in the tiger jumping stone of the Tiger Leaping Gorge impression, which is "high gorges out of the Pinghu Lake".
February 1996 Lijiang seven magnitude earthquake, so that the Haba Snow Mountain side of the large landslides, blocking the river channel, the river surface uplift, the current Yin slow, as if in the river to form a high lake, which is a large natural Liangdu.
The best way to savor the beauty of this, is to the deep gorge shouting, no roaring rapids and you, but there are two walls of snowy mountains to help you sound, you can clearly hear their voices lingering in the snowy peaks of the river between the surface of the long entangled not scattered, is a wonderful enjoyment. This is a small village between the middle tiger jump and the lower tiger jump, the original village is full of walnut trees, so there is this name. Hiking through the gorge tourists, in the morning, whether from Qiaotou or from Daguo, whether to take the gravel highway or Haba Mountain trail, are just in the afternoon to here for dinner and overnight, so the walnut garden has become a special scenery of the Tiger Leaping Gorge. Here you can dream to the sound of the waves and hear the legend of the Gorge Inn.
The Walnut Garden at night is a kind of only the sound of the river waves of serenity, both sides of the snow-capped mountains are not seen corridor, the stars are listed in a line, where the dream, are the waves of dreams. Wake up in the morning and pull open the door, face to face is the blue mountain walls, in the canyon, you will suddenly feel: this is the real "open door to the mountains".
There are only two inns in Walnut Park, "Hillspring" and "Mountain White Face", which are 50 meters apart, with similar facilities and prices, but the owners have their own distinctive colors.
"Mountain Spring" owner Xia Shanquan is a bitter Tibetan in Zhongdian, handicapped hands, but has a tenacious spirit and clever mind, his wife Marjia is an Australian, 1996 tour of the gorges to meet him and have a Romantic love, "Mountain Spring". "With this" foreign wife "seems to be gradually lively, Marjane's" authentic Western food "and the legend of Xia Shanquan attracted domestic and foreign tourists passing through the gorge.
"Mountain White Face" owner mother Chongjun and his wife Ren's is the authentic walnut garden people, they accumulate with hard work have "mountain white face" experience, is a traditional Chinese characteristics of the husband and wife store business story, their husband and wife hospitable, simple, and every night there are many walnut garden villagers to the village of the "authentic Western food" and Xia Shanquan legend. Every night, many villagers from Walnut Grove come to visit "Shan Baifaian", which has some local flavor and its Chinese food is more suitable for domestic tourists. The name of "Shan Baifaian" comes from a large piece of exposed white rock in the east of the village.
The "foreign story" of "Mountain Spring" and the "local story" of "Mountain White Face" will give you the best of both worlds. The story of "Mountain Spring" and "Mountain White Face" will add some warm and romantic colors to your journey through the Tiger Leaping Gorge.