I initially wanted to skip the Yulan Snow Mountain coz it would be time consuming to go up the cable car to the top and with Jazz previous day altitude sickness, there was a high chance another attact could happen as cable car just climbs up fast and no ability to stop the car midway. Mid morning discussion and the plan had change, to Yulan Snow Mountain base, snap a photo and run. I guess that was reasonable since its just a photo. Midway we encountered a tourist toll gate.
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| Toll Gate to Yulan Snow Mountain Scenic Spot |
This was new Bing said and they were charging 100 yuan just to pass the road regardless if anyone go up to Yulan mountain or not. Weather was super cloudy obscuring everything and I told them it's a fat chance to get a photo of the snow cap mountain.
Once the big bike arrive, everyone agreed and we all made a turn but consolation prize was we did get to stop nearby to take some photos with horses and be on our way again to Tiger Leaping Gorge
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| Photos with Horses along the road ... |
The trip really started this day I feel, ride to Tiger Leaping Gorge was through the old road ... not even national road but smaller than that. Base on videos and even Bing and Faz experience, it was no barriers at the edge where one can just roll off the cliff into the gorge. China made full use of 2020 to 2022 it seams and put up the entire barrier along this popular road trip trail, or at least almost all of it.
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| Tiger Leaping Gorge Ticket Entrance |
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| Tiger Leaping George Scenic Area |
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| The Narrowest Point of Jinsha River where the Tiger is supposely cross the river by Jumping on the Rocks |
Tiger leaping Gorge was beautiful and we even found some new monument along the way to get great photo shots. At the Tiger monument was a van selling coffee and tea. A couple that was travelling China in their wan and selling coffee along the way for some pocket money. It was an amazing idea and one that I would have done if Malaysia had been as big as China.
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| New Tiger Leaping George Monument along the road |
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| The road behind Yulan Snow Mountain |
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| The road towards Shangrila |
Good stop, good coffee and of course everyone brought out their cooking kit for lunch. Some road trip locals from other parts of China all seam very interested in our bike group and came to take picture and I got cornered for translation and answers once they knew I could speak .... barely.
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| Travelling Van Selling Coffee |
I was getting better at this for standard new tourist couristy always go around the same questions like where you are from, what you are doing, where you are going, how come I could speak mandarin etc. Keep repeating the same answers in different manner and my Mandarin was improving remarkably.
After the monument was the climp up to Shangrila. One word ... beautiful. Is all that could describe it. Me and Azu being the last two keep stopping for smoke breaks with Bing just taking a few photos then everything was kept and we just enjoy the scenary.
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| Riding into the Clouds & Mist |
The distance today was short ... only about 300km but due to the many many and so many stops we had, just soak in the enviroment and take photos, we reach ShangriLa late around 830pm. Partially also due to going up mountains we were passing rain clouds and mist and the terrain was an amazing riding journey
When we reached ShangriLa, I immediatly ditch the crew. Checked in the hotel, said Hi to my roomate, chucked my bags and was out the door .... ^^
Traveled On: Jun 2023
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