We left our gear at the hostel in Lijiang and packed our small day bags and caught a bus for 2 hours to Qiaotou to start a trek in the Tiger Leaping Gorge. It is one of the deepest gorges in China on the Yangtse river- almost 4,000 metres from the top of the mountains to the river below, and over 20 metres wide at its narrowest point.
We stayed at a Tibetan style Guest House along with about 30 other westerners all wanting to do the same walk. We got a map and up-to-date information on the trail and headed out early the next morning in the mist.
We stopped after 2 hours at a small Naxi -the local tribe- village for breakfast. 
You can always have rice, eggs and noodles anywhere.
We had to climb up 900 metres and Lil made it with only 3 stops!
We spent a night at a guest house that Michael Pallin visited in one of his TV travel stories- it had a loo with a view! I'm sure it was cleaner for him than for us. We walked with Mette and Christine from Denmark on our final day. The green leafed plant was in the flower box behind them in this photo.
