Seven of us, keen and ready to go for the 3-day Tiger Leaping Gorge trekking. 
After breakfast at Qiao Tao's Jane's restaurant, we started to hike up. Photo: this is only a gentle slope. More challenging ones to come.
Well, that wasn't too bad. 
After the 28 bends up the gorge, we did not look too badly out of shape.
Sight of the Tea-Horse Trading Guest House, where we stayed the night. 
It has been a tough hike. More challenges to come. View from the guest house of the mountain on the other side of the gorge: 
and we marched on, 
eventually arriving at Tina's Guest House for lunch and a breather.
After an some rest, we started to descend the gorge to the muddy JingSha River (Yangtze River). 
(photo: looking down to the river) We got to the bottom
(photo: looking up),and we were still smiling
, but have a look up and see if you can see the "Sky Ladder" on the cliff face: 
(look for the ladder in the photo).
In case you can't see the Sky Ladder, here is a closer shot of it:
Well, that was how we got up (via the "Sky Ladder"), and here are a few more shots long the way:
and here is a more gentle slope:
Home at last at Tina's Guest House where we stayed the night.
(Photo: Le with Mr He, our guide who lives in one of the near-by villages)
We left early next morning for Lijiang to re-join the rest of the fellow travellers. It has been a great experience and photos don't really show the spectacular scenery. Aug is a rainy season and not many trekkers. We were very lucky with the weather for it rained on the previous day and night before we came down.
Sadly, this is the last post from China. Next post ..... from South East Asia ... Laos
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