These mountains are the foothills of the Himalayas. The highest peak is Malong at 4122 meters (13,523 ft). You can hike up some very steep paths and do the fitness mountaineering hike up to a glacial lake. But with the rain of the past few days and the rain that had just started that morning, we took the Zhonghe cable car to an elevation of 2600 meters (8530 feet) to start the hike along a paved path. There are 18 peaks in the range. The path cuts across several.
There are many tombs in the side of the mountain. This was popular practice which is no longer allowed to do the large Chinese population.
We took the cloud travellers path across the mountains to the Gantong cable car to go back down. It rained the whole time. This hiking is in paved paths but was still beautiful.
We used a restroom that had a squatty potty over a trough. Water runs every free minutes through the trough. This was a different one for me.
The Zhonghe temple
Some views of the hike were shrouded in low clouds but we took pictures where we could.
The Phoenix eye came was unfortunately closed.
Qilongnv pools
These people are created from a river running through the gorge. There are 6 pools where water is collected in flat areas. There was quite a climb to get above all 6.
The path and the Gorge viewing platform
After returning to old town, we found a Chinese foot massage. Or get needed it after two days of hiking.
We then went to dinner. I tried Dali ice flower beer. It was light and refreshing.
