Tiger Leaping Gorge

Day 2, we all left early to head to 虎跳峡 "hu tiao xia" or in English The Tiger Leaping Gorge. This gorge, located 62 miles northwest of Lijiang's old city, is considered to be the largest gorge in the world at about 700 feet deep and 9 miles long. Below is the group in the Old Town preparing to head out along with a few views of Lijiang's old city.

第二天， 我们一起去了虎跳峡。这个峡，在六十二英里的丽江古城的西北，是世界最大的峡。这个峡是七百英尺深和九英里长。在下面的照片我们在准备去虎跳峡。






Below we are in a bus on our way to the gorge. I asked the bus driver right after this shot about how long will it take to get there. After getting over the shock that he understood me, I realized that we were in for somewhat of a long three hour ride. I however, kept my self entertained as you shall soon find out; the next 14 photo's are all taken on the way there. The trip began with a two hour bus ride where we were dropped off at a restaurant. It is simply touristy China to catch the unprepared tourist off guard by dropping him off at a restaurant in the middle of no where right at lunch time. He thus has no choice to eat there and pay the hiked up prices... As one can see China's tourist industry is made up of an intricate pad of relationships. So much that whether you know it or not you are participating in a package deal. From the restaurant the bus would take off back to Lijiang and leave us with no option but to either walk five hours to get there or to pay again and get on the 面包车 "mian bao che" (literally means bread car but refers to the English "van").

在下面我们正在坐 车去哪儿。我问了师傅到虎跳峡有多长时间？他说大概有三个小时。使我很惊奇因为他明白我说的话。以后我知道要很长的时间去这个峡，所以，用这段时间我拍了很多照片。在下面的十四的照片可以看到我的意思。

我们坐公共汽车两个小时到一个饭店。 我们去的这个峡是一特别的示例（shi(4)li(4) 为中国旅游 （lu(3)you（2），在午饭的时间我们的车停在一个很的贵饭店 和因为没有别的饭店在。所以没有办法不去很贵的饭店吃饭。 中国的旅游是建立在很复杂的人际关系之上。你在中国旅行的时候你买了一揽子交易，他们不管你要不要。这个公共汽车回丽江，我们要换车去虎跳峡，然后我们租（zu(2)了一辆面包车去虎跳峡，（走路要五个小时去虎跳峡。）
















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Here we finally have arrived at the center of the gorge.

在这儿我们终于到了峡中间。

This was by far the most beautiful 厕所 “ce suo" or bathroom in the whole world! Who knew that it would be in China! :)

在下面有世界最漂亮的厕所！

After our short bathroom break, we began to descend in to the Gorge.

我们去厕所以后，开始下峡了。

Below is Stacy, who unfortunately as I am writing this update is packing her bags to go back to the States. Please keep her in your thoughts! Recently her Father has been in and out of the ICU with heart related problems! Her sudden return was not expected and is extremely ruff for her and a lot of her friends still here. We'll miss you Stacy!

在下面是 Stacy。我写这个的时候他在准备回美国，真可惜！最近他的爸爸常常去医院因为他的心有严重的问题。她的意外打算对她在中国的朋友是很难的。她中国的朋友都舍不得她走。 Stacy, 我们要真想你！

Heres the happy couple again still in their fairy tale...

这儿有快乐的两个人还在他们的神话故事里。。。



I'm not quite sure who this is just thought the view looked nice...

我还不清楚他是谁？但是景色太漂亮的！

Who is that!?!?!?

他是谁阿！？！？

This was very uncharacteristic of Stacy but you can really see her Italian side showing in this pic.

这不是典型的 Stacy, 但是在这儿真可以看到他的意大利人的一面。

Tom found this wooden gun in one of the garbage baskets on the path down. ..

我们在下峡的时候Tom 找到一个木头做的枪支（qiang(1) zhi(1)

Here we finally made it to the bottom of the gorge not all looking forward to going back up...

在这儿， 我们终于到了水边不想很快爬峡。。。



Below is Doctor Heather Wilson, who came at the beginning of this year. She is also in my comprehensive Chinese class.

下面是 林博士。她今年来到中国。她也是我的综合中文同学。

Here is the couple in action...

这儿有情侣在活动…

Grace appears to be crying above... I'm not sure why? I think Andy put something in her drink...

在这里Grace 看起来在哭。。。 我不太清楚为什么？我想Andy 放了一个东西在他的饮料(yin(3)liao(4) 里。



Well anyways there isn't much else I can say about the tiger leaping gorge, not that you read anything I write anyways you just look at the pictures. Anyways, Here I am reading the South East Asia Edition of Lonely Planet to find out about our next and last stop, namely Jade dragon snow mountain!

没有别的事情会告诉你，没关系因为你只要看照片。但是在这儿我在看中国西南的寂寞行星所以可以学习我们的下一个地方要去，玉龙雪山！