Lijiang >> Tiger Leaping Gorge

Attraction Typ: Landform and topography

Location: about 60 km from city

Recommend: 5 Star

Tiger Leaping Gorge

As one of the world's four great gorges, the Tiger Leaping Gorge has three gorges - the upper, the middle, and the lower, every cliff are only 20 meters apart. The narrowest place is only 10 meters. The Tiger Leaping Gorge is honored as one of the deepest and most marvelous gorges on the globe.

Tiger Leaping Gorge is a canyon on the Yangtze River–locally called the Golden Sands River–located 60 km north of Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China. It is part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas World Heritage Site.

The tributary of the Jinshajiang River is flowing into the gorge with surging wave and it looks very grand. Legends say that there was a fierce tiger jumping over the huge stone in ancient times, so the name of the Tiger Jumping Gorge comes. It has the title of the biggest gorge in the world.

The Tiger Jumping Gorge has three gorges - the upper, the middle, and the lower, every cliff are only 20 meters apart. The narrowest place is only 10 meters. There is a huge lying stone in the center of the three gorges.

Among the Tiger Jumping Gorge, the most dangerous one is the middle gorge. On the left cliff, there is a man-made lane, which is over 30 meters away from the surface of the river. If you walk on this lane, you will feel like squatting by the tiger's mouth.
The waterfalls of different appearances are everywhere inside the gorge. Some are like old man's beard. Some are like the white scarf, symbolized respect meaning in Tibetan Buddhism. Some are like the Milky Way.

If you come to the Tiger Jumping Gorge after raining or in cloudy day, you will see different landscapes along the way. You will see the light mist from the bottom of the Jinshajiang River enveloped the entrance of the Tiger Jumping Gorge up and down. At this moment, the Jinshajiang River is like a yellow dragon strolling in the cloud and mist. This scenery is hard to see elsewhere.

There are all beautiful landscapes and astonishing places from the foot of the Haba Mountain into the Tiger Jumping Gorge, inside the gorge, on the road to and from the gorges and around the hillside. All those made it special to travel the Tiger Jumping Gorge.