Tiger Leaping Gorge
Tiger Leaping Gorge Travel Guide offers tourists useful information including travel tips, attractions, tours, weather, food, restaurant, accommodation, activities, photos and maps.
The key highlight of this itinerary is to climb Haba Snow Mountain. Standing at 5396m, Haba is just above the snow-line and is covered with snow all the year round. This trip allows you to experience the typical process of climbing a snow mountain. It is not a hard climbing route. The most difficult is to overcome the high altitude sickness. For this 5 days Haba Snow Mountain tour, you will have one more day for adapting high altitude from Base Camp to Base Camp 1. If you often go to high altitude areas and if you want to have a try to reach the summit of a mountain at 5396m, please don’t hesitate to join our snow mountain climbing tour. Before reaching Haba Snow Mountain, have a stop to visit Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Sightseeing and Activities: the First Bend of Yangtze River, Iron Chain Bridge, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Haba Village
Accommodation: Haba Local Guesthouse
Meals: Breakfast and lunch
From Lijiang, we’ll drive about 60 km to the First Bend of the Yangtze River with imposing gorge scenery, and the Iron Chain Bridge in the Stone Drum town. The town of Stone Drum got its name from a large, cylindrical, marble tablet shaped like a drum. The scenery is magnificent as the road running through the Lijiang valley which is filled with wheat fields and drying haystacks.
Continue the driving 40 km more to visit the upper Tiger Leaping Gorge, the deepest gorge in the world. With 34 rapids of the Yangtze River, it is called the Jinsha in this area because you can find gold in the river. Then, you’ll head for the middle part of Tiger Leaping Gorge for your lunch. After a short trek in Middle Tiger Leaping Gorge, drive to Haba Village which is a small Naxi village located at the food of Haba Snow Mountain.
Arrive at Haba Snow Mountain Guesthouse in Haba Village. You will prepare for your equipment and acclimatize yourself to the altitude(2600 meters in Haba Snow Mountain Guesthouse). After lunch, examine your heart rate and blood oxygen content. Learn the knowledge, condition and introduction of the Haba Snow Mountain Climbing.
Sightseeing and Activities: Trekking
Accommodation: Camp
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Trek up the Haba Mountain for about 15 km to the Base Camp at the 4200 m, which will take about 7 hours, with yaks taking your luggage. You will have a picnic lunch in Haba Snow Mountain. You only need to take some water, clothe, necessary food, the other equipment will be transferred by the horses to the Basic Camp.
This day, you will hike up 1500M of the altitude, arrive at the Base Camp in the afternoon. Because of the high elevation, everyone will suffer the different altitude sickness. You should know how to adjust the situation and adapt to the high elevation. If you really feel not very well, please tell your escort.
Note: It is not allowed to sleep before 9:00 PM.
Overnight at the Base Camp or in the wooden hut(beds and quilt are available in the wooden hut).
Option to have one more day in Acclimatization in the Base Camp.
You will spend the day to acclimatize in the base camp. Some Chinese climbers and web sites are recommending a Camp 1 at 4900 meters just before getting on the glacier (a small pond/lake is located there) but it seems that most people do the climb in one day up and down from base camp. This seems to be the best solution especially if you can spend one day to acclimatize in base camp. There is a 4 hours walk going to black lake and back from base camp if you chose this option.
Sightseeing and Activities: Trekking
Accommodation: Camp
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Continue climbing up for about 6 km to Camp 1 at 4800 meters, which will take about 6 hours. Our professional mountaineering guide will choose the right path for you to climb up. Our guide will set up the Camp 1 for you.
There is the other option to walk to the Base Camp at 4200 meters within an hours and half via a couple of Lake and some mountain passes where you can have good views of Haba Mountain and the area. And then, walk up to 4800 meters from the Base Camp for some training and back to the Base Camp.
Sightseeing and Activities: Camp 1 at 4800 meters, the top of Haba Snow Mountain at the 5396 meters, Base Camp
Accommodation:Camp
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Get up at 5:00 am, begin to climb to the top of the Haba Snow Mountain at the 5396 meters, which will take about 5 hours. You will climb about 4 km, leave most of your luggage at the Camp 1. You just need to take your mountaineering tools, such as the rope, ice axe, ice pick, etc.
You need to use ice crampons and ice axes to get to the top of the mountain. On the top, you can have a very good view of the mountains in distance, including Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Lijiang, Meili Snow Mountain in Deqin, Three Holy Mountains in Yading and many other nameless mountains.
Have a picnic lunch, then trek down to Camp 1 to take your luggage, then continue trek down to the Base Camp. Our service clerk at the Base Camp will prepare good meals and wait for you.
Sightseeing and Activities: Base Camp at the 4200 meters, Baishuitai
Accommodation: None
Meals: Breakfast and lunch
Trek down from Base Camp to the Long Wang Bian Village with yaks taking your luggage. After lunch, drive to Shangri-La, you will visit Baishuitai (White Water Terrace).
Baishuitai is the cradle of the Dongba culture of the Naxi people. It is said that the founding father of Dongba culture settled here to spread his beliefs on his way back from Tibet. On the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, that is, the day when the founding father held his founding ceremony, people of various groups congregate round the terrace, singing and dancing and slaughtering chickens to pay tribute.
Note: If you will go back to Lijiang after the climbing, you can tell us in advance and transfer to Lijiang after ending the climbing trip.
Destination | 5 Star | 4 Star | 3 Star | Hostels |
Haba Village | / | / | / | Kaka Guesthouse |
Haba Snow Mountain | / | / | / | Haba Snow Mountain Base Camp Guesthouse |
Haba Mountain Camp 1 | / | / | / | Camping |
4 Days Haba Snow Mountain Climbing Adventure with Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour
5 Days Haba Snow Mountain Climbing (Camping at 4800M) with Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour
5 Days Haba Snow Mountain Flowers Hiking Tour with Black Lake and Yellow Lake
5 Days Haba Snow Mountain Circumambulation Hiking Tour (Finishing in North Slope)
5 Days Haba Snow Mountain Circumambulation Hiking Tour (Finishing in Qiaotou Town)
6 Days Haba Snow Mountain Summit Climbing Tour with Haba Circumambulation Trekking
7 Days Haba Snow Mountain Circumambulation Hiking and Climbing Tour
7 Days Haba Snow Mountain Climbing Tour and Tiger Leaping Gorge Trekking
9 Days Lijiang and Shangrila Adventure Tour with Haba Snow Mountain(5396M) Climbing
11 Days Yunnan Classic Tour with Haba Snow Mountain (5396M) Climbing Adventure
12 Days Lijiang and Shangri-La Adventure with Haba Snow Mountain Climbing and Baoshan Stone Town
13 Days Best Yunnan Flowers Trip to Snow Mountains between May and June
1 Day Upper Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour (Lijiang Part)
1 Day The Upper Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour (Shangri-La Part)
1 Day Middle Tiger Leaping Gorge Trekking Group Tour (Finishing in Lijiang or Shangri-La)
1 Day Tiger Leaping Gorge Highlight Hiking Tour from Bendiwan Village to Tina’s Hostel
2 Days Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Group Tour (Back to Lijiang from Hetaoyuan Village)
2 Days Tiger Leaping Gorge Trekking Tour with Daju Town and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
3 Days The First Bend of Yangtze River Rafting and Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour
3 Days Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Tour From Qiaotou Town to Haba Village
4 Days Haba Snow Mountain Climbing Adventure with Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour
5 Days Lijiang City Tour with Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Adventure
6 Days Lijiang Hiking Tour around Tiger Leaping Gorge and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
7 Days Lijiang and Shangri-La Paradise Tour with Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Adventure
9 Days Kunming Dali Lijiang and Shangri-La Classic Tour with Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Adventure
Baishuitai is located in Baidi Village, Sanba Township, southeast of Shangri-La City. It is 101 kilometers away from Shangri-La and and 2,380 meters above sea level. Tiger Leaping Gorge is another highlight in Yunnan travel. For tourists who want to get to Baishuitai from Tiger Leaping Gorge, you can take a bus or car-rental.
There is a daily bus running between Tiger Leaping Gorge and Baishuitai at a price of 55 RMB. It departs at 12:00. Tickets can be purchased at Tina’s Guest House or Tibet Guest House.
From Middle Gorge, you can flag down a van going East (Further down the gorge) and ask to go to Baishuitai (40–50 RMB). If there are lots of cars you can try hitchhiking as well. Or arrange a car with your hostel.
Renting a car is suitable for a flexible and comfortable way. It is better for you to rent a car with an experienced driver and a tour guide if you are foreign travelers. The driver of chartering car can stop for you to enjoy the scenery and take photos. Yunnan Exploration Travel can provide car-rental service, please contact us. Email: contact@YunnanExploration.com; Tel: +86-871-63511469.
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English Name: Naxi Family Guesthouse
Chinese Name: 纳西雅阁客栈
Address: Zhongnuoyu Village, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Shangri-la/香格里拉虎跳峡中诺鱼村
Tel: 13987040240 (Wechat)
Naxi Family Guesthouse is a guest house in Yunnan. Naxi Family Guesthouse is situated nearby to the railway station 虎跳峡 and Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Naxi Family Guesthouse (纳西雅阁客栈) is one of the hostels with good reputation where you can have meals and stay for the night. It is located in Nuoyu Village in Tiger Leaping Gorge, facing Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. The house with a red flag is just Naxi Family Guesthouse, a quiet and sunny quadrangle courtyard, surrounded by fields and fruit trees.
Travelers get to Qiaotou Town after 2-hour driving from Lijiang or Shangri-La, then trek another 2 hours to Naxi GH in Nuoyu Village. It’s just one of the good places for lunch and rest. It’s operated by a Naxi family. Most of the dishes is affordable and nearly 5-15RMB with strong ethnic characteristics.
Sean’s Spring Guest House is a well-known hostel recommended by the Lonely Planet Guide in 1994 and Rough Guide in 2006 for the international backpackers and leisure travelers who would like to go for a hiking in Tiger Leaping Gorge. It is in the Walnut Garden Village and built with an original Tibetan style in 1983 and it’s the first guesthouse in Tiger Leaping Gorge. The guesthouse offers the services of a responsible mountain guide by Sean himself. cozy rooms and guaranteed 24 hours hot water are available. The guesthouse also has modern toilets , delicious food and actually possess the bathtubs (En-suite rooms) which is great for soaking away the aches & pains of a long hike. Best of all, travellers can looks out onto a dramatic 2000m cliff from the terrace. Now that’s something to look at with your friends and cocktails in the evening! Now the hostel provides new dining room with Europe fire-stove keeps the whole day warm room !!
Woody Guesthouse is in theWalnut Garden Village of Tiger Leaping Gorge, Shangri-La, offers customers comfortable flat-room, standard-room, common-room with guaranteed 24-hour hot water and clean toilet. The hostel also provides delicious western & Chinese meals, cold beer drinks and open-air dining. Other services like car rental and trekking guide are accessible for backpackers. It is in the grandest & most terrific scenic spot by tiger leaping gorge .The owner is a warm-hearted and friendly local family. It’s said by the owner that the guesthouse is once burned up and rebuilt later. Best of all is the open-air viewing deck with grand view, furnished with kinds of plants and typical ethic architectural style.
Zhuoma Guesthouse is located in Walnut Garden Village in the Middle Section of Tiger Leaping Gorge which is the most thrilling, most splendid part of the whole gorge. The house is built with a typical Tibet style, Tibet carving and Tibet pictures. It offers customers Tibet meal, chinese and western meals. Wireless Wifi and picking-up service are also available. For people who hike along the highway with luggages, the hostel can help them to carry their belongings. Walk along the highway for a while, you will arrive at the hostel which is near the White Water Terrace and travelers can enjoy a fabulous view of the Upper Section and Haba Snow Mountain.
As you imagine, Teacher Zhang’s Guesthouse is named after the name of the owner, located in Yongsheng Village in the Middle Section of Tiger Leaping Gorge. it’s 18 kilometers away from East Ring Line in Shangri-La. Walking along the highway for 1.9 kilometers from Tina’s Guest House, you will arrive at the Teacher Zhang’s Guest House. Travellers can trek down to the hostel from Tina’s via a path, which only takes 10 minutes. The hostel is furnished with clean & cozy rooms with good lightling, guaranteed 24-hour hot water and offers chinese meal, baggage deposit service and trekking guide for customers. Please note it’s not available for credit card payment.
Teacher Zhang’s Guesthouse is a popular accommodation option located in the stunning Tiger Leaping Gorge (Hutiao Xia) in Yunnan Province, China. Known for its breathtaking views and serene environment, the guesthouse provides a cozy and welcoming atmosphere for travelers exploring this iconic natural wonder.
Teacher Zhang’s Guesthouse offers a unique and authentic experience for travelers visiting Tiger Leaping Gorge. With its stunning views, friendly atmosphere, and convenient location, it is an excellent choice for anyone looking to explore this remarkable area of Yunnan Province.
Planning a Tiger Leaping Gorge hiking tour for Singapore International School students involves careful preparation to ensure safety, educational value, and an enjoyable experience. Here’s a detailed plan:
Overview: Tiger Leaping Gorge is one of the deepest and most spectacular gorges in the world, located on the Jinsha River, a tributary of the Yangtze River.
By following this structured plan, the Tiger Leaping Gorge hiking tour can offer Singapore International School students a transformative outdoor learning experience, blending adventure with educational insights into nature and culture in Yunnan, China.
At the junction of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau stands a Yunnan’s famous tourist spots, Tiger Leaping Gorge. The gorge is tucked neatly between the Yulong Snow Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain. At the opening of the gorge, which is also the mouth of the Jinsha River, a Herculean pebble, about 30 meters wide, seems to be stranded amidst the billowing waves. In this tour, you can witness an incredibly loud, churning and foaming river relentlessly pounding giant boulders in its path.
Sightseeing and Activities: the First Bend of Yangtze River and Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking
Accommodation: Tea&Horse Guesthouse
Meals: Lunch
At 8 AM, meet your tour guide & driver at the entrance to Lijiang Old town(Big Water Wheel) and head to Qiaotou Town. On the way, have a distance view of the First Bend of Yangtze River from afar. After Arriving at Qiaotou Town, hike about 2.5 hours from Qiaotou Elementary School to Naxi Family in Nuoyu Village for lunch and rest.
In the afternoon, continue hiking about 1.5 hours to the 28 Zigzag Turns Trail. You will have a wonderful view of the upper part of Tiger Leaping Gorge from 28 Turns Trail, then hike about 1 hour to Tea and Horse Guesthouse for overnight.
Sightseeing and Activities:Waterfalls and Streams, Bamboo Forest, Upper Tiger Leaping Gorge
Accommodation: None
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
After breakfast, hike 1 hour to Bendiwan Village and take a break at Half-way Guesthouse. Hike along a small train to Guanyin Waterfall and Bamboo Forest, arrive at Tina’s Hostel at noon.
After hiking, have lunch in Tina’s Hostel and drive along the Yangtze River. We will have a stop to visit the Upper Tiger Leaping Gorge on the way. Drive back to Lijiang in the late afternoon. Service ends.
Destination | 5 Star | 4 Star | 4 Star | Hostels |
Tiger Leaping Goge | / | / | / | Tea Horse Guesthouse |
1 Day Upper Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour (Lijiang Part)
1 Day The Upper Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour (Shangri-La Part)
1 Day Middle Tiger Leaping Gorge Trekking Group Tour (Finishing in Lijiang or Shangri-La)
1 Day Tiger Leaping Gorge Highlight Hiking Tour from Bendiwan Village to Tina’s Hostel
2 Days Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Group Tour (Back to Lijiang from Hetaoyuan Village)
2 Days Tiger Leaping Gorge Trekking Tour with Daju Town and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
3 Days The First Bend of Yangtze River Rafting and Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour
3 Days Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Tour From Qiaotou Town to Haba Village
4 Days Haba Snow Mountain Climbing Adventure with Tiger Leaping Gorge Tour
5 Days Lijiang City Tour with Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Adventure
6 Days Lijiang Hiking Tour around Tiger Leaping Gorge and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
7 Days Lijiang and Shangri-La Paradise Tour with Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Adventure
9 Days Kunming Dali Lijiang and Shangri-La Classic Tour with Tiger Leaping Gorge Hiking Adventure
Tiger Leaping Gorge Travel Guide offers tourists useful information including travel tips, attractions, tours, weather, food, restaurant, accommodation, activities, photos and maps.
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Baishuitai is located in Baidi Village, Sanba Township, southeast of Shangri-La City. It is 101 kilometers away from Shangri-La and and 2,380 meters above sea level. Tiger Leaping Gorge is...
Book the Bendiwan Family Hotel in Tiger Leaping Gorge and stay at cheap Inn and Guesthouse. Enjoy the free WiFi, free parking, nice entertainment and visit the popular tourist...
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English Name: Naxi Family Guesthouse Chinese Name: 纳西雅阁客栈 Address: Zhongnuoyu Village, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Shangri-la/香格里拉虎跳峡中诺鱼村 Tel: 13987040240 (Wechat) Naxi Family Guesthouse is a guest house in Yunnan. Naxi Family...
Sean’s Spring Guest House is a well-known hostel recommended by the Lonely Planet Guide in 1994 and Rough Guide in 2006 for the international backpackers and leisure travelers who...
Woody Guesthouse is in theWalnut Garden Village of Tiger Leaping Gorge, Shangri-La, offers customers comfortable flat-room, standard-room, common-room with guaranteed 24-hour hot water and clean toilet. The hostel also...
Zhuoma Guesthouse is located in Walnut Garden Village in the Middle Section of Tiger Leaping Gorge which is the most thrilling, most splendid part of the whole gorge. The...
As you imagine, Teacher Zhang’s Guesthouse is named after the name of the owner, located in Yongsheng Village in the Middle Section of Tiger Leaping Gorge. it’s 18 kilometers...
Planning a Tiger Leaping Gorge hiking tour for Singapore International School students involves careful preparation to ensure safety, educational value, and an enjoyable experience. Here’s a detailed plan: Destination:...
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