Journey to JinDao Gorge

Where might I go that would combine some of my favorite memories of home (Rock Bridge Park and the spectacular limestone caves and crevices there), the New Zealand Hollyford trek (with waterfalls sprouting out everywhere through lush mountainside vegetation), and even the Khumbu valley in the shadow of Mount Everest (where mountainside dwellings have some similar architecture and sherpas carry heavily laden baskets on their backs)? Maybe the JinDao Gorge, also cutting deeply and spectacularly through karst landforms, only a two hour bus ride away from Beibei. My photographs simply do not do justice to the scale or to the colors. Last Sunday, my Peace Corps Volunteer friend Martha joined me on the trek, where we met up with several Chinese students from a university in Chongqing who decided to be our guides.