In the morning, we make an excursion up onto Lion Hill, with its beautiful views over the tiled roofs of the Old Town of Lijiang and its quiet surrounding park. Before lunch, we travel on towards the Tibetan Plateau. On the way you will visit the Tiger Leaping Gorge, one of the deepest gorges in the world. During the millenniums, the Yangtze River carved a gorge into the massifs of the Haba and Jade Dragon Snow Mountains, both over 5000 m high with their glacier peaks towering over the rice terraces on the Yangtze banks. In the late afternoon, we will reach the Tibetan Plateau, at an altitude of 3200 m the highest county in Yunnan Province. Overnight in the Holy Palace Hotel (4*) and a special Tibetan dinner (Lhasa cuisine).