Upon reaching the top, you emerge from the trees onto a small rocky clearing looking directly onto a long dragons-back-like range of grey snow-capped peaks: the imposing 5, 600m-high JadeDragon.
The ancient towns of Dali and Lijiang, the glacier surrounded by green hills on JadeDragon Snow Mountain, the markets with their sweet, sweet peaches all were as wondrous as she had promised.