Tiger Leaping Gorge

• Tiger Leaping Gorge

60 km north of the city of Lijiang has a point of interest - Tiger Leaping Gorge. Like all Chinese tourist attractions, you'll be a little surprised by human intervention in the natural monument. The Chinese have deployed a gigantic construction site: make wide roads, tear down mountains, strengthen the channel of the mountain river. In general, do everything to attraction could take 500,000 people a day.

At the entrance already put beautiful monument tiger. As expected, the monument was fenced brilliant fence. In China, very fond of all the shiny fence fences.

As you know, all the Chinese sights are rated from 1 to 5 "A". I wrote in detail about it here. Tiger Gorge - AAAA-level tourist attraction. Although the fifth And already painted, it remains only to paint.

More Tigers!

As expected from any of the Chinese attractions in Tiger Gorge has a huge cash Palace, where you will be charged an entrance fee of 2,000 rubles.

As can be seen, at the entrance of many construction equipment.

The fact that the valley is not very like the Chinese, and they decided to put things in order here.

It is necessary to make a normal concrete embankments, to strengthen the river bed, cut off the excess of the mountain.

Soon to be a beauty! Many souvenir shops, hotels, parking lots for buses.

Slowly natural attraction earns a rating.

The workers make a beautiful way.

Look how beautiful! Not what it was.

Buses with tourists already here.

Laid along the gorge hiking trails.

It is possible for a few hours to go for a walk.

Kinds.

There are several hiking trails.

Routes complex Elevation gorge about 600 meters.

Sometimes it is necessary to climb the steep stairs, so that people with obesity and poor physical fitness of the machine is far better to depart.

On route the locals selling water and fruit at exorbitant prices. For example, the usual cucumber costs 100 rubles.

But the most unpleasant, that at every step of enterprising Chinese try to tear off money from you.

are everywhere extortionists with signs that the passage fee.

All of a legend. The bridge / path / stairs built our family, and if you want to go further, you will pay the money. I do not know whether this is legal, but nobody fights extortionists.