Description
Tiger Leaping Gorge lijiang, one of the deep narrow canyons in the world, is located on the Jinsha River in northwest Yunnan province. It is the famous first bay of the Yangtze River. The valley gradually Narrows into a canyon. The left bank is Haba Snow Mountain, and the right bank is Yulong Snow Mountain. The cliffs are steep and precipitous, with a total length of 18 kilometers and a vertical height difference of 3790 meters, which is more than 1,500 meters deeper than the Grand Canyon in the United States. Turbulent river water, like ten thousand horses galloping, rushing out of the road, the speed of 6-8 meters per second. Gorge sound such as thunder, spray splashing, thrilling, precipitous, is a hiking adventure tourist resort. 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.
