Een trektocht van 5 dagen door een van de meest afgelegen streken van deze regio. Zeer mooie tocht door een streek met vele minderheden die nog zeer traditioneel leven. De natuur en het spectaculaire landschap zijn ruig en mooi en nog nauwelijks beïnvloed door de moderne tijd. Overnachting in tenten of homestay en er gaan paarden mee als lastdieren. Een Engels sprekende gids begeleidt je op deze bijzondere trek.
de beschrijving van de trekking volgt hieronder in het Engels :
5 Day trek from Baoshan stone cith to Lugu Lake
Day 1 trek Baoshan stone city to Liuqing (20 km)
morning: visit the old stone city
walk 6 hours (incl breaks)
grade: prepare yourself for a tough day
path: very steep at times, small goat paths, very high, climbing over stones, going up and down. Steep path towards 3500 (?) m. last 1,5-2 hrs cross through 2 tunnels (60 and 90 m long). After tunnels path goes down towards liuqing.
Beautiful views on riceterraces, jinsha jiang (yangtse) flowing below, small naxi villages, friendly locals, spectacular views over gorge along yangtse
Day 2 trek to Fengke (12 km)
walk 4 hrs incl breaks
path: most of route goes down, relatively. Spectacular views on mountain range and gorge. Dry arid area.
Grade: relatively down the mountains, difficult at times because of the loose stones and gravel
trek to Labe (10 km)
walk 4 hours
path: mostly down sometimes very small paths with loose gravel, steep down. Moonlandscape. Through nice villages. Mosuo people. Take a boat across the yangste river
grade: most of it is downhill, last bit to go down river is tricky because gravel path and steep, not too difficult
day 3 to Gewa (17 km)
walk 4,5 hrs incl breaks
grade: steep all the way up and down, now and again cross the car road
day 4 trek to Baicaoping (15 km)
walk 5 hrs incl breaks
grade: go up and down
path: first go up steep path, then hit the car road, go down. After 1,5 hrs village with shops. Lunchstop, yakbuttertea. Pumi people. After steep uphill, view on forest, flat desertscape, another steep mountainslope up, through the pine forest. Go down.
day 5 trek to Yongning, end of trek (25 km)
walk: 8,5 hours incl breaks
grade: longest day of trek, not difficult but going down the gorge seems forever
path: go up hill, through thick cool forest, up and down. View on jade dragon snow mountain and haba snow mountain. On the way tibetan herders and their yaks. Gorge is stony path and the descent seems endless. Another mountain slope up, high, go down through a vast arid plain, yi villages Then finally: yongning.
This is the end of the trek.
Je kan deze trek ook nog verlengen door te beginnen in de Tiger Leaping Gorge. prijs op aanvraag. Dan komen er 5 dagen bij maar dagen 3 en 4 kunnen op zich ook in 1 dag gedaan worden dus deze trek duurt minimaal 4 dagen.
Deze trek kan natuurlijk ook op zich geboekt worden als 4 of 5 dagen en dan eindig je in Baoshan stone city. Dan met een privé auto naar Lijiang terug (extra dag erbij). prijs op aanvraag.
Vanaf de Gorge komt dit stuk er nog bij:
4-5 Day trep from Tiger Leaping Grge to Baoshan Stone
Day 1 private transport from lijiang (or zhongdian) to qiaotou, start the trek into the tiger leaping gorge, about 5-6 hours on the upper path to half way the gorge
Day 2 trek down to Walnut grove, (3-4 hours), take the ferry across, walk to daju (lies at 1600 m), about 2 hrs
Day 3 trek to Baimo (2840 m)
Road: 3-4 hours steep road up the mountain
Day 4 trek to Changsong (2700 m)
first climbing up till 3335 m the highest point and then going steep down to 2700 m
Grade: climbing up the first couple of hours to reach the highest point at around 3300 m high meaning 1500 meters above Daju plain. Then, it is more or less 2 hours more all the way down to Changsong
Day 5 trek to Baoshan stone city (road is 1950 m, village down is 1790 m)
5 hours most of the part is going down