First Bend of Yangtze River, Yunnan, China
First Bend of the Yangtze River gets its name because the river makes a 90 degree turn from south to east within a distance of 1 kilometer.
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Lijiang Old Town, Jade Snow Mountain, Lashi Lake, First Bend of Yangtze River, Stone Drum, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Shangri-La, Pudacuo National Park, Stone Forrest at Kunming
The tiger leaping gorge (Yunnan - China)
(EN) Tiger Leaping Gorge is a canyon on the Yangtze River -- locally called the Golden Sands River (金沙江; Jīnshā Jiāng) -- located 60 km north of Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China. It is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas World Heritage Site.
Around 15 km in length, the gorge is located where the river passes between 5,596 metre Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (玉龙雪山; Yùlóng Xuĕshān) and 5,396 m Haba Snow Mountain (哈巴雪山; Hābā Xuĕshān) in a series of rapids under steep 2000 metre cliffs. Legend says that in order to escape from a hunter, a tiger jumped across the river at the narrowest point (still 25 metres wide), hence the name.
Administratively, the river in this area forms the border between Yulong Naxi Autonomous County of Lijiang City (right bank) and Shangri-La County of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (left bank).
Tiger Leaping Gorge is a contender for the world's deepest river canyon, depending on the exact definition used.[citation needed] The inhabitants of the gorge are primarily the indigenous Naxi people, who live in a handful of small hamlets. Their primary subsistence comes from grain production and foreign hikers. The gorge is not considered navigable. In the early 1980s, four rafters attempted to go down the gorge and were never seen again. In 1986, the first known successful attempt to sail through the gorge was made by the first expedition to float down the entire length of the Yangtze, starting at the river's high source at the Gelandandong glacier lake.
The area was officially opened to foreign tourists in 1993, but had attracted adventurous backpackers already in the 1980s. Officials plan to improve the existing trails and roads, bringing tour buses and more development. These plans arouse highly varied reactions among the local population, from strong opposition to strong support.[1]
Natural crystals are mined from areas in and surrounding the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
(F) Les gorges du Saut du tigre sont un canyon sur le fleuve Yangzi (connu dans cette région sous le nom de Jīnshā Jiāng), situé à 60 km au nord de la ville de Lijiang, dans la province chinoise du Yunnan.
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Travel to Kunming, Lijiang, Tiger Leaping George, SHIGU, The First Bend of the Yangtze
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Yangtze River at Shigu
Stony Brook students on the Ethnicity and Ecology tour visited the first great bend of the Yangtze River at Shigu, Yunnan Province, China. For more information, visit
Shangri-La and Yunnan Photo Tour
Our itinerary on the month of October, 2014:
20th October sightseeing Lijiang old town and Shuhe old town.
21st Drive to Shangri-La, stopping by the First Bend of the Yangtze River en route, visit--pass by Tiger Leaping Gorge, one of the world’s deepest and most exhilarating river canyons. Arrive in Shangri-La late in the afternoon.
22nd Drive to Mieli Snow Mountains. Drive to the Q shape of yangzhe en route for pictures. Visit Dhoundupling monastery and pass through baima snow mountain, which is 4229 meters from sea level and highest elevation for entire trip. Checked in a hotel at Felaisi.
23rd Drive back to Shangri-La. Stopped at Nixi black pottery and passing by Kunzhira.
24th morning visit shika snow mountain and then drive to Songtsam Ling Monastery to visit.
Tiger Leaping Gorge & Zhongdian aka Shangra-La, China
Terry Hodgkinson aka wandering ninja hikes Tiger Leaping Gorge and wanders through Zhongdian (Shangra-La) the third of Yunnan's northwestern unique cities.
Tiger Leaping Gorge was amazing to see. An increidlbe hike down but the hike up was 10 times harder! It was worth it to see the rushing water at it's base. Zhongdian was nice however due to heavy rain it was hard to get out into the country side and see so many of the great scenery. I did manage to get a few video clips of the city though - Terry
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Tiger Leaping Gorge
Around 15 km in length, the gorge is located where the river passes between 5,596 metre Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and 5,396 m Haba Snow Mountain in a series of rapids under steep 2000 metre cliffs. Legend says that in order to escape from a hunter, a tiger jumped across the river at the narrowest point (still 25 metres wide), hence the name.
Tiger Leaping Gorge is a contender for the world's deepest river canyon, depending on the exact definition used. The inhabitants of the gorge are primarily the indigenous Naxi people, who live in a handful of small hamlets. The gorge is not considered navigable. In the early 1980s, four rafters attempted to go down the gorge and were never seen again. In 1986, the first known successful attempt to sail through the gorge was made by the first expedition to float down the entire length of the Yangtze, starting at the river's high source at the Gelandandong glacier lake.
Zhongdian
Shangri-La County is a primarily Tibetan county in northwestern Yunnan province, Southwest China. Zhongdian was renamed Shangrila for marketing reasons. Signs in bus stations still use Zhongdian. The original Shangrila, from James Hilton's novel The Lost Horizon, was a (fictional) hidden paradise whose inhabitants lived for centuries. Hilton (who never went to China) located his Shangri-La in the Kunlun mountains. However, elements of his story were apparently inspired by National Geographic articles about various places in eastern Tibet, including Zhongdian; hence China's rationale for claiming the name.The local Tibetan population refers to it by the name Gyalthang, which is the Tibetan name for Jiantang Town, the county seat.
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Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Pudacuo National Park - Beautiful China
In the Yunnan Province of China, these are some amazing and scenic travel spots that you can't miss.
- Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
is a mountain massif (also identified as a small mountain range) near Lijiang, in Yunnan province, southwestern China. The range is also known as Mount Yulong after the Chinese or Mount Satseto after the Naxi name.[3] Its highest peak is named Shanzidou (扇子陡) (5,596 m or 18,360 ft).
- Tiger Leaping Gorge
is a scenic canyon on the Jinsha River (Golden Sands River; Jīnshā Jiāng), a primary tributary of the upper Yangtze River.
- Pudacuo National Park
is a 1,300-square-kilometre (500-square-mile) national park located in Shangri-La County, Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China.
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Milton Goh explores the legendary Tiger Leaping Gorge (虎跳峡) in Shangri-La, China!
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Tiger Leaping Gorge is a scenic canyon on the Jinsha River (Golden Sands River), a primary tributary of the Upper Yangtze River. It is located 60 kilometers north of Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China. It is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas World Heritage Site.
At a maximum depth of approximately 3790 meters from river to mountain peak, Tiger Leaping Gorge is one of the deepest and most spectacular river canyons in the world. The inhabitants of the gorge are primarily the indigenous Naxi people, who live in a handful of small hamlets. Their primary subsistence comes from grain production and foreign hikers (as well as Chinese).
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* Chinese Town in Kunming City in Kunming
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0 - Lijiang Old Town (UN World Heritage Site-- Many distinctively dressed Naxi Women
4:41 - Mountain Roads
14:00 - Town of Shigu (Stone Drum) and 1st Bend in Yangze River where Mao's Revolutionary Forces forded river to get behind Nationalist Forces as the first move in The Long March
22:00 - Drive Shigu to Lunch at Quiatou Village
28:00 - Tiger Leaping Gorge and drive along a mountain donkey until we were stopped by a rock slide we saw that just missed us. This gorge is billed as the world's deepest at 3 miles deep. The wide Yangze River is channelled between mountain making a deafening noise. Legend has it that a tiger leaped across the Yangze here using a tablerock wedged in the middle of the gorge.
35:00 - Bill on the spot commenting on the gorge
41:50 -Bill more gorge on the spot comments
45:03 - Hotel Lobby and street and market scenes in Zhongdian, (Recently renamed Shangra Lai in deference to the surrounding areas being the inspiration for James Hilton's perfect place described in his novel 1933 Lost Horizons ( ---The place is a frontier cowboy hunter/herder society in the Himilayan foothills and the video shows many Tibetans in their distinctive clothing. You may even see a lady with a giant hunting knife slung around her waste.Tibetan Men and women
48:00 - Zhongian plains, Yaks, Tibetan Houses, Yi Mountain Villages where women wear giant flat black hats as field workers to protect them from the sun...hats are brightly coloured for unmarried females LOL! All women wear ground length dresses made of 3 or 4 wide horizontal bands of different bright coloured cloth.
1:25 - Arrival at remarkable Baishui Tai (means white water platform) and was the inspiration for the Naxi's Dongba Religion---this place is a mountain side of natural cascading fountains formed over the ages from the dropping of minerals suspended in the 1/16 inch deep glacial melt water flooding down the mountain side
1:45 - Return trip from Baishui Tai and Yi Villages
1:46 - Forest Walk to hidden lake where Yi Men are building log buildings...We pass a young Yi unmarried girl in the wearing her long dress and bright coloured large hat
1:50 - Songzanlin Monastery---2nd largest Buddhist Monastery after Potala Palacem the original home of the Dalai Lama before he was exiled to India. I had free rein to go everywhere in this huge monastery including interaction with many of the buddhists. There is a more video on another video that is not yet uploaded but i will paste a link here when the upload is completed.
Tiger Leaping Gorge: Day 1. From Qiaotou through the 28 Bends.
Tiger Leaping Gorge (虎跳峡) is one of the deepest canyons in the world. Formed by the Yangtze River slicing between the 5600m Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and the 5500m Haba mountain, Tiger Leaping Gorge is between 2000 - 3000m deep. It takes several hours to reach Tiger Leaping Gorge from Lijiang, even though it is only 60 KM away. Hiking the length of Tiger Leaping Gorge (25KM) can be done in 7 - 8 hours at a very brisk pace, but it is wiser to spread the hike out over several days because of the altitude, occasionally unfavourable weather, and spectacular scenery that demands reflection.
On Day 1 of our hike through Tiger Leaping Gorge, we walk from the town of Qiatou to the Naxi Family Guesthouse and then on through the 28 Bends to the Tea Horse Guesthouse where we stayed the night. The 28 Bends, a series of switchbacks that elevate the trail 700 - 900m very quickly, are challenging but doable for anyone moderately in shape.
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Hike occured in July, 2010.
The Tiger Leaping Gorge (China)
A hike trough the beautiful nature of Yunnan province in China. This trail is called the tiger leaping gorge, because the myth goes that a tiger can jump over this gorge. The mountains are still a part of the Himalayas.
Dancing, Nanping Street, Kunming
Some elderly people dancing outside a bank near Nanping Jie, Kunming.
China Trek Swing Bridge Scare - Tiger Leaping Gorge
Hiking the Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan Province, China, across a shaky swing bridge above the raging Jinsha River on my way to the famous Tiger Leaping Rock.
Tiger Leaping Gorge, China, with Sean Spring
If you want an authentic feel for life in the gorge, with good company, excellent hospitality, thrilling treks with stunning views, then Sean Spring's guesthouse is a highly recommended place to stay! tigerleapinggorge.com
TIGER LEAPING GORGE...OUS - We were in China, Part III
Our two-day trek through Tiger Leaping Gorge.
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