下午三點，到了香格里拉市的酒店後，就是自由活動的時間了。我們三個都忙著補眠，下午五點多才出門覓食，因在酒店附近找不到合心意的餐廳，最後打的到市中心的壇城廣場一帶覓食，順便走走。在這海拔3,300米的地方，幸運的是，我們都沒什麽高原反應，就是晚上比較難以入眠。
15pm, we arrived our hotel at Shangri-La. After a short sleep, we began to look for dinner in the neighbourhood of our hotel, but finally we went to the city center to have KFC. Then we had a walk around the Tancheng Square before sunset. Luckily, we didn’t feel uncomfortable at the altitude of 3,300 m, beside hardly to have a nice sleep in night.
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在虎跳峽鎮用過午餐後，我們開始直奔香格里拉市（原名中甸縣），路程約120公里。這兩個小時半的路程中，因沒藍天白雲襯托，沿途景色澤有些黯淡，但出色依然。
After having lunch at Hutiaoxia Town, we continued our journey to Shangri-La, or Zhongdian. The distance was about 120 km and took us about 2.5 hours to reach there. Due to rainy weather, we didn’t have blue sky in sight, but the views were still so pretty and attractive.
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虎跳峽是世界最深的峽谷之一，峽谷長18公里，南岸有玉龍雪山、主峰海拔高度5,596米，北岸有哈巴雪山、主峰海拔高度5,396米，谷底流過的河流為金沙江（或長江的上游），河寬僅有30-60米。虎跳峽的上峽口海拔1,800米，下峽口海拔1,630米，兩岸山嶺與江面相差2,500-3,000米，谷坡峻峭，景色壯觀。金沙江在峽內連下七個陡坎，落差170米，水勢洶湧，聲勢浩大。我們去了香格里拉的虎跳峽（上虎跳）景區，欣賞這遠近馳名的自然景觀。
Tiger Leaping Gorge, one of the deepest gorge of the world, lying between Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (highest peak 5,596 m) and Haba Snow Mountain (highest peak 5,396 m), about 18 km in length. Jinsha River, or upper section of Yangtze River, flows through the valley. The width of the river is only 30-60 m, arrives here at an altitude of 1,800 m and leaves at 1,630 m height, falling 170m in 7 steeps rapidly. We went to the scenic area at Shangri-La County, at the upper section of Tiger Leaping Gorge.
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