Tiger Leaping Gorge Hike | Yunnan, China

This hike is no joke What's up P Nation? I'm Leah and I'm Zach and today we're hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge It's only supposed to be 10 to 12 miles. So it's not gonna be that crazy. However, we're doing it in two days There are three different parts. The first part is Super hard we hear. The second part is called 28 switchbacks. Is that what it's called? And that sounds pretty hard as well. And then we get to our first destination which is Halfway House So the first day is actually the biggest day and the second day we get to go all the way down to the water and The gorge and just relax basically And we're really excited! And that's where we started right down there Okay, so we got off the bus and we are following this guy who has an awesome GPS He also has WeChat which kind of has a map on its own and it's just really nice because we heard we were gonna get lost Like we definitely would have taken two rights already But we took two left and now we're on the right path Because if we would have taken the rights it would have taken another three miles. So we're really lucky to have him All right, following our trusted guide instead of going on the road Hiking up the rice terraces This is the spot on the mountain and she has a horse. I don't know if you can tell but this tree is like yellow It's like fall time in the Himalayas, but it's April. Entering into the village The first leg is really really difficult. And I think that's what we just did. We are, I am Really exhausted. Zach is fine, but the view already is Becoming amazing. So we started here. We just got here We have to go here What is interesting is that there's a lot of people like Europeans here that we haven't seen anywhere in China except for on this trail So it's very different than what we expected. A lot of people speaking English and they have water We thought we didn't have a water purifier, but we're gonna be fine This hike is no joke We are so far up here. I don't think my chest has burned this badly since high school Field hockey. Ah We made it past the first part. Mm-hmm. We made it past 28 bends. I Almost had a heart attack And I don't take that lightly So difficult and now we're heading down Hello Okay, I really want to stop for lunch, however We got two more hours. We're gonna make it. We have to keep going. We have to go to halfway house As you can tell by the wind we have almost made it to halfway house, I hope they have a room left I don't know because there's like not a lot of pre-booking that goes on here. So we're about to see We have made it Here's the room Quaint they only had twin beds left, which was fine. We can manage but it's nice and It has its own bathroom She's got a big bathroom. Oh Showered and fresh we are ready for some dinner because we're about to eat so many calories. Okay, I got my shoes on double socks and Slippers size eight Okay, buddy we got fried rice of veggies potatoes with tomato Fried noodles with egg So that's it for today, we're really full we're really tired It's 8 o'clock we're about to go to bed now, so we will see you in the morning So we just finished breakfast We are still pretty tired But we have to get a move on because we have to catch a 330 bus from Tina's guest house Back to Lijiang where all of our stuff is and where we're staying the night We just left halfway house and now we're on our way to Tina's it's supposed to take two hours Yeah, everything here is measured in time Not how far it is in kilometers or miles. So it's a new new thing for us So we don't really know exactly how long it will take us to get there or how far it is So we are walking on the road that is beside the cliff that has the most amazing view Tina's guest house and we're gonna go down to the water Okay, we just got to Tina's guest house However, we're leaving because we put our stuff down and we're going to the gorge now Yeah We're going down to the gorge and she said we didn't have enough time to like walk all the way down And do the whole trekking thing. So she suggested we go down this ladder. We've heard it before I think it's called the sky ladder. Yeah, or she's calling it middle ladder. I'm not really sure. We don't really know what's going on Okay, we just paid the lady off. I know you guys are like, what are you doing with this? My ears are burned and my neck is super burned. So the sun wasn't out earlier, but it is now So I'm gonna look like a tribal leader for the next two hours Whoops we're halfway and that's where we're going. We didn't really consider how far we would have to go down To reach the gorge so like going up all those steps. It's very reminiscent of when we hiked the Grand Canyon in one day You go down first and you're all inspired by the view and then you're like, okay, I've got to walk up now And it's a different story. We've already done one of these. That's one more. We're hiking down As you can see, this is the old one which would have been very interesting and that's the new one Which is still kind of steep, but nothing compared to the old one We're getting closer Got up in two hours Now we found the real sky ladder. The other one was a fake We just made up the sky ladder. How was it? very scary Very scary. I just can't believe the steps are like eight inches apart. It doesn't sound like that much but it is There's 54 steps It's actually harder because it's full body workout because you're holding on to it as you're going up. Wow That feeling that you get when you go up the mountain faster than anyone else Made it with time to spare Whoo, so we just made it up. I cannot believe Lea. She is a superhuman She did turn it on when we need to. Although I thought we were going to crash and burn We got up to the top and she was like all of a sudden we found these people from Denmark and she was talking non-stop Her adrenaline is still running crazy. I just needed to chat. Okay, I can't believe we made it up alive They were from Denmark. We were just in Denmark. We had to talk. Yeah, anyway, so we're back at the top We're done hiking. We've finished our trek at this beautiful place and Tiger Leaping Gorge. It's been amazing. It's amazing. You should do it Just laying in the road