With the Haba Mountains to the west, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to the east, and the waters of the Yangtze River thundering over boulders almost 4000m below, Tiger Leaping Gorge is one of China’s most spectacular treks and a unanimous must-do on any visit to Yunnan.

At around 15km in length and arguably the world’s deepest, the gorge has long been a staple of adventurous Yunnan travel. Its sheer slopes, striking peaks, waterfalls, forests, drowsy hamlets and local Naxi farmers with their donkeys or goat herds passing along the way, all combine to make a Tiger Leaping Gorge trek one which most visitors would be hard pushed to find better in the whole of China.

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