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Conquering (?) Vertigo in Tiger Leaping Gorge
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 30 October 2011
Z jumps from stone to stone across the waterfall which tumbles in a rocky stream across the cliff-edge path and a mile or so down grassy rock, autumn wildflowers and...
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The Friday Photo: Autumn Wildflowers in Tiger Leaping Gorge
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 28 October 2011
Trekking the world’s deepest gorge in mid-October, pushing two miles above sea level, you don’t expect to see wildflowers. But in Tiger Leaping Gorge, in northern Yunnan, China, not far...
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Ducking Boulders, Dodging Rockslides & Living To Tell The Tale
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 28 April 2010
This is the second of two posts about my adventure hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge. Monday’s post describes the beginning of this not-so-easy trek. After a pretty tough hike on day one, Lily and I didn’t know what to expect from day two in Tiger Leaping Gorge.
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The Guidebook That Cried “Wolf”
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 26 April 2010
The extent to which I underestimated Tiger Leaping Gorge can be measured in pounds: 2.7 pounds, to be precise. That’s the weight of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 944-page tome Team of Rivals, which I mistakenly thought would be a good hiking accessory.
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Tiger Leaping Gorge
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 29 March 2010
A hike through Tiger Leaping Gorge (虎跳峡) is one of the must-dos for Western backpackers in Yunnan, and with the lure of fresh air and beautiful views, we were no exception. In China, these kinds of places tend to be fairly developed, with stone paths, stairs up the steeper parts, elegantly disguised trash cans, railings [...]
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Escape from the gorge
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 28 March 2010
I awake early in the morning just after dawn, its quite chilly outside do I decide to wait in the guesthouse until the sun rises above the mountains and dries the dew slippy rocks. My legs are aching predicable, a graze from where I fell climbing over some rocks the day before still hurts and [...]
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Alone against the Tiger
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 27 March 2010
12th Oct Looking up I watched the planes blinking light vanish over the looming black mass of the mountains. Its was strange to imagine all those people up there, sitting in comfort, being served by airhostesses, a bubble from the modern world here in this place of incredible remoteness. Night had fallen over tiger leaping [...]
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Yunnan folk
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 25 June 2009
Lijiang rooftops at dusk Our last week or so has been spent in China’s Yunnan province, a place consisting of mountains, villages and numerous Chinese ethnic minority groups. We made Lijiang, with its cobbled streets, fresh water streams, red lanterns and hordes of local tourists our base for exploring the more remote parts of the [...]
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Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan, China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 18 June 2009
Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yunnan, China – Images by Jamie McDonald Chengdu Airport, Sichuan Province. Departing rather than arriving, which means I’ve had about a week off from the blog, which in turn means I’ve got rather a bit to catch up on! We left Shangri-La under the guidance of one of Daisy’s (from Sean’s Cafe) friends who had a hostel in Haba village, under the snow capped Haba Snow Mountain. Our journey was quoted to be three hours, but after stopping for every person with a thumb out on the way (and ...
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