Tiger Leaping Gorge
1 min readJinsha River（upper course of Yangtze River）cuts spectacularly through Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain to form this dee-pest gorge of the world.It is 18km north of Lijiang city，between peaks of over 3000m above the river，which is 80m or more at the widest，or only about 30m at the narrowest，a most dangerous section of Yangtze River about 17km long.At the entrance right in the middle of the river lies a huge rock，and the rushing water has to squeeze through a 13m passage at both sides.Folks say that tigers often leap to the other side of the river by this rock，thus the gorge earms this name.A more recent discovery is the ancient rock paintings on cliffs of the gorge，which add wonders to the grand gorge of the world.
