On the road to Tiger Leaping Gorge
We took a day to travel to a place called Tiger Leaping Gorge.  It is about a 2 hour drive from Lijiang.  We hired a car to take us there.  We didn't really hire a guide but we had the service of one anyway.  Lijiang old town has a tourist information office that we used.  In this office there was a young woman there named Annie who could speak English quite well.  She provided us information, arranged the car for us and volunteered to come along with us.  This page is devoted to what we saw on the way to and from Tiger Leaping Gorge.  Most of the pictures where taken through the side or back window of the van.  The driver was willing to stop when ever we asked him to, it's just that I would have been asking him to stop every mile.
Here we are on the road to Tiger Leaping Gorge.  This was one of our first glimpses of the Yangzi.  It was about 10:00 AM.  I asked the drive to pull over to take the next three pictures.  It was just a bend in the road.
It was cultivated like this all along this ride.  Miles and miles of meticulously terraced fields.  Not a piece of heavy equipment to be seen.
There's our ride... and the road.  We were accompanied by a driver and a guide from Lijiang.  A young Naxi woman named Annie.
 This is just typical town along the river.
The industry out here is farming and taking stuff out of the ground.
Here we are entering the Tiger Leaping Gorge area.  Jade Dragon (Yu Long Xue Shan) forms the north wall of this canyon.

Click here to see Tiger Leaping Gorge
After one or two hours walk in the gorge it was time to head off to another site.  By this time the sun was coming right through the front window of the van.  This was a perfect opportunity to shoot (photo's) out the unobstructed rear window.  This is what I saw.
More terraced fields. 
Just  a road side shop.  Very typical.
Looking back at a little town that the road passed through.
An old Naxi woman gathering something?  Maybe those pine needles.  We saw many people gathering these needles.  We're not sure what they do with them.
The south side of Jade snow mountain.
Moooooooo........
This is called "First Bend".  It is the first big bend (I guess) of the Yangzi.
After this, we stopped off to see a little town.  Click here to see the town.
Now we are heading back to Lijiang.  We have left the banks of the Yangzi.
Hello!  Welcome back to Lijiang.