Tiger Leaping Gorge - Part III

Waking up on day three was good, as it wasn't raining!! It was still a little overcast though which was good because it kept the sun away from us most of the day.

At around 9am we set off down to 'Middle Gorge', which was the last part of the trek. The part of the trek took us all the way to the bottom of the gorge to where the river ran through. It took around 1 hour to hike down the amazingly steep track down to the gorge. The further down we got the more I couldn't help thinking about how the hell we were going to get back up again!!

Finally reaching the bottom, we were met by a series of massive rocks lining the banks of the ferocious river. It was amazing, I have never seen rapids like it. Looking at the water, you knew that if you fell in you were as good as dead. There is absolutely no way you could survive it.

As we proceeded to jump over the rocks and have our pictures taken etc etc, I later found out that about 4 weeks earlier a tourist had been doing the same thing...having his picture taken...and lost his balance and fell in the water. They never found him! Comforting to find this out after you have had you picture taken!!

From the middle gorge we proceeded back up to the top of the gorge via a series of very steep paths and extremely steep and unsafe ladders! Finally reaching the top alive and well around 1.5 hours later. We then organised a car to take us back to Lijiang, via a giant landslide in the middle of the road......

Only in China!