Jinsha River Yunnan

Yunnan , China
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    The little ferry who couldn't, then could!

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    Leaving Tina's Guesthouse we said goodbye to Tiger Leaping Gorge. We drove to a village then walked an hour or so across country so we could cross the Jinsha river by "ferry" to Daju.
    Our guides had done the TLG trek many times and so the first two days had run very smoothly. Apparently they have only run the rest of the trip a couple of times …

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    More dams faster built in Yunnan

    ... - the building of roads, spillways and abutments - is underway. Waste material from the work is being dumped directly into the Jinsha River and the increase in silt is damaging the hot-arid valley ecosystem. More critically, the dam's reservoir lies over ...

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    US man missing kayaking on Yangtze

    ... , but decided to take a kayak trip first. He never made it to the conference.He was last spotted entering the Jinsha River on Aug. 13.Last week, the university hired a company that specializes in overseas assistance. Searchers are looking along the river ...

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    Dam for Tiger Leaping Gorge

    ... preparing to invest even more -- 49 billion yuan (7.2 billion US dollars) -- on a costly water diversion project from the Jinsha River. "The length of the diversion project is nearly 600 km, which makes it expensive and difficult," says Yu Xiaogang ...

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    Tiger Leaping Gorge and its 28 Bends

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    ... end it took 3 and a half hours. The Gorge one of the deepest in the world, measures 16km long and is 3900m from the Jinsha river that cuts its way through to the top of the Haha Mountain. We finally set out from Qiaotou Village at 11.30am with a ...

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    Trekking over the Tiger Leaping Gorges

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    The best trek in China so far, And no steps here!! Tiger Leaping Gorges are among the deepest in the world from Jinsha river to Haba Mountain up 3900m. After leaving my big bag at Jane's GH, I went up the mountain and spent 2 days enjoying the view ...

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    Rural farmland, Disneyland, and perilous journeys

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    ... now living in Guangzhou) to depart the next morning with me for a 2-day trek through Tiger Leaping Gorge, a beautiful gorge where the Jinsha River (of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River) runs between two high mountain ranges. A tiger is said to have ...

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    On tigers and trains

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    ... Lijang and hike the Tiger Leaping Gorge, one of the deepest gorges in the world (16 kilometers long and 3900 meters up from the Jinsha river). By cutting my Shangri-la visit short – which I really didn't mind so much -, I could just squeeze it in ...

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    The Gorge - Day 2

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    ... the Middle Tiger Leaping Stone, from which the Gorge gets its name.  Legend has it that a hunter was chasing a tiger down to the bank of the Jinsha River, when the tiger leapt across the chasm with the help of a stone in the middle of the river. ...

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    Tiger Leaping Gorge

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    ... of the best views yet. The sides of the gorge towered above us (3900m at its highest) on either side, with the gushing Jinsha river below us. After almost four hours of seeing only a few local herders and their mountain goats (that seem to stick to the ...

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    Tiger Leaping Gorge

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    We left Lijiang in the morning on a minibus heading north to Tiger Leaping Gorge. From the raging waters of the Jinsha River to the snow-capped mountains at the top, the gorge is 3900 metres deep making it one of the deepest gorges in the world. ...