Three Gorges Dam Project Yichang

And then a 3 day 600 km cruise along the Yangtze River, including the scenic Three Gorges and the Lesser Gorges. For us, real luxery. For Ian, his first cruise. Nice boat with a spacious cabin, good food, excellent service with more staff than guests (116 guests), lots of onboard lectures on such topics as Chinese history and onshore excursions …

Today is officially the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, a big deal here in China, especially in Beijing! The fellow passengers said they saw a parade on the band early in the morning, but we only saw the back off our eyes at that time. That's basically all the celebrating we saw from the country of China today, …

boring boat trip …

... we couldn't understand We're in Yichang to catch a hydrofoil that will take us east along the Yangzi river past the Three Gorges Dam project, then each of the Three Gorges, then dropping us off three hours bus ride from Chongquing. We headed to one ...

... and then later in the day you could return to use the facilities on board, or just relax.The first excursion was the Three Gorges Dam project. The dam itself was quite disappointing I must admit, but they had a talk on the ship about it which was quite ...

We boarded the boat in the morning and soon set off down the Yangze River. We were heading towards the famous and controversial Three Gorges Dam Project. Before we reached it we passed through a smaller dam (still pretty huge!) which showed us the 'lock' ...

Sandouping to Yichang is 45km/ 28 miles. We got a bus to see the Three Gorges Dam Project. It was so foggy and misty we saw dam all!!!!! We could see nothing just a bare outline of the dam Dam if you squinted!!!!! Then a bus brought us up to the ...

... so it was very difficult to snap nice photos at all. They did have a gift shop where they had a really big model of the three gorges dam project, it looked bigger than life. The model made the project look enormous, which of course it is. It will be the ...

... the air is clean and fresh. We were taken off to the local museum where not only did we find artefacts excavated from The Three Gorges Dam project but also our new friends from the cruise, Pat & Paul and Bruce & Pauline! After our tour around ...

... the first gorge. After breakfast everyone met at the lobby to leave the ship for the excursion to The Three Gorges Dam Project. Apparently ship parking in China is different to what I am used from cruises. Instead of docking to the dock, our ship ...

... the basics of customer service. As I said, my main purpose for being in this city was to catch a glimpse of the Three Gorges Dam project which was almost entirely operational. I signed up for a tour through one of the hotels in the area. Of course, ...

... spectacular countryside, culminating in the three gorges.  This has become famous in the west since the inception of the three gorges dam project, one of Mao's brainwaves that was put on hold until relatively recently.  At the end of the third ...

... out was at 6:30am and we were off the boat by 7:15am for a private bus ride. On the drive we passed by the Three Gorges Dam Project. The dam is the largest in the world and it only displaced 1.3 million people. We had no time to take photos, if you ...