YunNan, Lijiang, Day 3

paiseh, paiseh... you guys must be trying to check what happen to my Shangrila trip. i was not able to keep up with the live posting as i was traveling to Shangrila for the last 2 days. the hotel did not have internet access so...

quick summary of the tour. a little dispointed not because of the group or guide but due to the weather. it was foggy when we went up to the 石卡雪山 (ShiKa Snow Mountain), therefore the best was not accomplished. further more, due to the altitude of the 4500m, i was getting light headache and my son was feeling very lethargic (sleepy because of lack of oxygen). my wife get pretty serious headache the first night at Shangrila at 3300m. The guide 阿洛 Ah Lou was very professional and helpful. Accomodating all requests if he could.

Update for 22nd Apr
anyway, we left 8:30am from lijiang with Alladin tour, our first destination for the 2 days tour was 长江第一弯 (Yangtze River First Turn), then to 虎跳峡 (Tiger Leaping Gorges), 3rd destination was temple (forgotten what the name) and finally Na Pa Hai. On the way, the guide introduced himself and also let each and individual to introduced ourselves because we were all from different area. through, introduction, i noticed that there are two main groups of people come to yunnan for tour. the first were mainly southen china, those from dong guan, shen zhen, guangzhou areas and the other groups are mainly from sichuan.

enough of saying... time for pictures.
this was the first stop, nothing much so Ah Luo told us that 10mins including a toilet break will be good enough, and it was true. I only took this picture of the "first turn". What a great turn of the Yangtze river?

at the stop, there are many stores selling stone/rock. not too sure what these stone for or from...

there are 3 sessions of the tiger leaping gorge. the lowest, the middle as well as the upper. the best view would be the middle session that i understood from many tour agents. this is the upper session and i do not find it great. the reason for it to be not that great was because it best view in July/August time frame when the water is higher and faster.

i am going to stop here for the day. a bonus picture for those who visited my site... haha... let me know if you like this picture so that i would post more of this. haha...


to be continue...

continue update on 27th Apr... for 22nd Apr

after visiting the tiger leaping gorge, we visited the "月光城"

a picture of the city taken from the temple.

as "松赞林寺" was not part of our agenda, we did not manage to visit the place but the Ah Luo was helpful enough to get the coach stop for 5 mins allowing to take picture of this beautiful budda temple. this temple is like the "布达拉宫" in Lhasa but a smaller version of it.

next destination before we headed to the shangri-la old town for a night stay was the Na Pa Hai "依拉草原、纳帕海". it is the greatest and gorgous grassland of shangri-la.

the strong sun was penetrating through the cloud with it ray...

a young loving couple from chengdu taking pictures, this yunnan area is very suitable for newly wed couple.

group photo, actually only half the group. the rest are somewhere around the area taking more pictures with the great scenary.

that's it for Day 3 of the trip. have fun reading and i will be back.