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| About
the River |
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| Nearly
twice as deep as the Grand Canyon and only a third as wide, the Great
Bend of the Yangtze ranks as one of the grandest of the world's canyons.
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| Incredible
7 days rafting journey through the Great Bend where we pass beneath 2
mile-high walls. This expedition offers impressive scenery, amazing rapids,
exotic culture and beautiful insect free weather. |
| Special
Scenic |
| Baoshan--Ancient
Stone Village |
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Two
Snow Mountains
When start to rafting, you can see two snow Mt.,Jade Dragon & Haba,
standing both sides of the river. |
Ancient
Stone Villages
visit ancient stone villages
and paddle giant rapids with towering waves. |
| Wild
Animals and Flowers |
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Wild
monkeys
Usually every time we can see wild monkeys running across the mountain. |
Wild flowers
Such as edelweiss, hsueh-lien-hua and so on. Most of them are too little
to watch.
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| Itinerary |
| Day
1 |
Kunming
fiy to Lijiang, and then we board a bus for the 3 hour drive to the put
in on the Yangtze. |
| Day
2 - 8 |
For
7 days we float through the immense Great Bend Canyon with some of the
world's highest vertical river cliffs . In a number of places the water
is bank to bank between sheer walls rising over a vertical high.
When the massive walls taper, we hike up marvelous side streams and visit
a 1,000 year old stone village. |
| Day
9 |
Sightseeing
in Lijiang old town. Fly to Kunming at afternoon. |
| River
Rate |
Class
V+ |
| Season |
February
to April |
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