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 5'000m high with their glacier peaks towering over the rice terraces on the Yangtze banks. In the afternoon arrival at the plain of Gyalthang/Shangri-La, at an altitude of 3'300 meters the highest municipality of Yunnan province. Overnight at downtown four-star hotel and local Tibetan dinner.