We woke up early this morning to visit Tiger Leaping Gorge. It’s a 3900m gorge cutting through the marble mountains creating magnificent scenery. We walked along the middle of the gorge looking over in to the rushing water and enjoying the views.
On our way back from the Gorge (of which we have millions of photos) we stopped off at the first bend of the Yangste River.

The next day we had all to ourselves, we woke up early and headed up to the top of the Old Town and found a tea house over looking the roofs and the hills in the distance. We found ourselves hanging around there for a couple of hours before deciding to explore the place a bit further.
Explore we certainly did in a ‘not entirely sure where we are’ sort of way. We wandered around for another couple of hours before finally stumbling upon our hotel from a completely different angle to the one we were expecting.
After that we took a rest and had some lunch (meat on a stick) before venturing off again into the town, this time sticking strickly to the main routes. It’s a beautiful town, and because of that got very busy towards the centre with all the shop sellers and tourists trying to get a good deal.
We’ve really enjoyed our time in Lijiang and despite it’s obvious touristy-ness it’s certainly somewhere we’d like to go back to and spend a bit more time.