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Renata: Renata is ill / Renatukas serga

2009-08-21

Hello everyone,

It seems a bit unfortunate but it is a second day I am poorly with sore throat and some temperature (haven't measured how much exactly). I am taking Tylenol and sore throat medicine with a funny old man on a package, called "Golden Throat", so fingers crossed it helps!

Tomorrow our tour group is off for 2 days of hiking to Tiger Leaping Gorge (Hutia Xia), which is about 100km north of Lijiang. It is world's deepest canyon, set at the altitude of 2500metres with its south wall rising above 3000 metres. I think in total we are going to hike around 25 km. The hike will take 2 days to complete, so I am trying to get well and staying in bed all day today no matter what.

A few photos taken yesterday when we went out for a Won Ton soup lunch are here Renata.Paliakaite/lijiangaug2009

I hope you are doing much better and have no cold or sore throat!

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Sveiki,

As sergu jau antra diena. Skauda gerkle ir turiu temperaturos. Geriu Tylenol and ciulpiu tabletikes, pirktas Kinijoje. Jos vadinasi "Auksine Gerkle", tad tikiuosi, kad mano gerkle taps auksine ir pagis greitai.

Rytoj musu grupe iskeliaus i 2 dienu kopimo tura i didziausia ir giliausia pasaulyje kanjona, siekianti 2.5km, o pietine siena net 3km. Is viso ketiname nueiti apie 25 km, tad as stengiuosi nieko nedaryti siandien ir visa diena praleisti lovoje, kad buciau geresnes formos rytoj.

Cia keletas vakar dienos nuotrauku, kai issiruosem pietums paragauti Won Ton sriubos

Renata.Paliakaite/lijiangaug2009

Tikiuosi, kad jusu sveikata yra puiki!


Renata: Trekking - Tiger Leaping Gorge / Zygis

2009-08-23

Regards from Tiger Leaping Gorge! (for more info on the canyon see info below)

This afternoon we came back from the gorge after 2 days and 25km trekking, the link for the photos is below. No incidents, accidents on the way. Andy slipped on the wet mud and fell once and I pushed through my fever. I think that week's trekking in Nepal prepared us for this and we did not find the trek neither hard nor challenging. It was just a pleasant walk with quite a few very steep steps!

Tomorrow we will spend almost all day travelling as we are catching a bus to airport and then taking 2 flights to our next destination - Yangshuo (you can see our detailed travel map in Beijing photo folder).

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Linkejimai is sokancio tigro kanjono (manoma, kad jis yra giliausias pasaulyje)!

Siandien grizome po 2 dienu zygio. Taigi 2 dienoms ir 25km veliau raportuoju, kad nukeliavome ir grizome be jokiu siaubingu nuotykiu - tik grazus vaizdai, smagi kelione, ne per didziausia fizine itampa. Manau, kad savaites zygis i kalnus Nepale mus gerokai pralavino. Andis paslydo ir pargriuvo tik 1 karta, o as zygiavau su skaudancia gerkle ir temperatura.

Rytoj visa diena praleisime bekaliaudami: autobusu i oro uosta, po to 2 skrydziai Yangshuo (galite pamatyti detalu keliones zemelapi Pekino, Beijing, nuotrauku albume).

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Tiger Leaping Gorge (Hǔtiào Xiá) is a canyon on the Yangtze River – locally called the Golden Sands River (Jīnshā Jiāng) – 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.

Around 15 km in length, the gorge is located where the river passes between 5,596 metre Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (Yùlóngxuĕ Shān) and 5,396 m Haba Xueshan (Hābā Shān) in a series of rapids under steep 2000 metre cliffs. Legend says that in order to escape from a hunter, a tiger jumped across the river at the narrowest point (still 25 metres wide), hence the name.

Tiger Leaping Gorge is a contender for the world's deepest river canyon, depending on the exact definition used. The inhabitants of the gorge are primarily the indigenous Naxi people, who live in a handful of small hamlets. Their primary subsistence comes from grain production and foreign hikers. The gorge is not considered navigable. In the early 1980s, four rafters attempted to go down the gorge and were never seen again. In 1986, the first known successful attempt to sail through the gorge was made by the first expedition to float down the entire length of the Yangtze, starting at the river's high source at the Gelandandong glacier lake.

The area was officially opened to foreign tourists in 1993, but had attracted adventurous backpackers already in the 1980s. Officials plan to improve the existing trails and roads, bringing tour buses and more development. These plans arouse highly varied reactions among the local population, from strong opposition to strong support.

(UPDATE - fixed links...)

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Andy: Hot air ballooning and boiled dogs in Yangshuo

2009-08-24 to 2009-08-25

Hi All,

Firstly, if anyone has tried to contact me on Facebook, please be aware that China doesn't do Facebook, or Twitter, or most blogging sites (getjealous seems to have slipped under the radar).

We have been in Yanghuo, China, now for a couple of days. I haven't seen as much of it as Renata as I was struck down with another stomach bug shortly after we left Lijiang and stayed in close proximity to our ensuite bathroom for most of the last 2 days. Renata went out on a group bike ride yesterday and saw the market where they boil and smoke dogs to eat. I was surprised to see on her photos that the dogs are quite small - i would have thought they would grow massive breeds for meat but it appears not.

Last night we went to see a performance on a lake coreographed by the director who was in charge of the Olympic opening ceremony. Thankfully this performance was not 12 hours long, but it did feature some 600 performers as well as some buffalo and cormarants. It was pretty cool if you're into that kind of thing but I was hoping for some fireworks at the end, which didn't happen.

Yangshuo is a beautiful town situated amongst strange looming 'mountains' which are like spikes/mounds that protrude from the earth at almost 90degrees and then flatten off at the top (see photos for example - hard to describe). There are loads of tourist activities on offer here, described below:

'Cormorant fishing' involves not fishing for cormorants, but rather fishing >with< the large sea-birds... tying a noose around the bird's neck that forces it to regurgitate the fish it catches once it lands on the boat and tries to swallow them. We passed on that one, though it comes highly recommended by some others from our group.

Hot Air Ballooning - We got up at 0530 to do this today... it was amazing, though far less comfortable than we imagined. We're not sure if it's just the Chinese baskets but we felt very cramped and when the flame was fired into the balloon (pretty much all the time) it was almost unbearably hot on the head, neck and back. That notwithstanding, it was a fantastic experience, particularly with the added danger of around 100 mini-mountains all around us to crash into. Somehow our pilot managed not only to avoid the mountains but also to land perfectly in the middle of a small road, where a van was waiting to collect us. In some ways, ballooning is similar to flying at low altitude in a plane, but the slower speed means you get more time to look at things... highly recommended!

Cave Diving - we'll do this later on today. Not exactly sure what it involves apart from that we go to some caves where there are freshwater pools and we swim around a bit and roll around in big pools of mud. Full report in due course.

Chinese Cookery - we're off to a little village tomorrow to do this. We'll spend 3 hours cooking, then eating, a variety of local dishes (hopefully not including dog hotpot).