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Yangtse Cruise Day 1: Ghost Cities
This is a top pick! So before I get into the first full day let me mention the night before. John led us down to the docks and had us wait while he sorted out everything. Then he pointed to a Chinese tour guide (waving the little yellow flag) and indicated that ...
I'm on a boat.
... on the boat went to the relocation village. (We still had to climb about 130 steps though.) We disembarked in a town called Fengdu. The town is a relocation village. What this means is that when the dam was built, half of the homes that stood along the ...
Cruising the Yangtze and Exploring the Ghost City
... at the variety, and quality of it. After, I went back to my cabin for a bit of a rest. In the afternoon, we went to Fengdu Ghost City. We disembarked, and our guide led us up a lot of stairs. I mean a lot. There were chairs available for people to ...
Day 9 Fengdu
... the gorges photos. The off ship itinerary for the day is a trip to the City of Ghosts on Mingshan Hill in Fengdu. The temples there are full of statues of devils and ghosts with corresponding stories about them. It is said that visiting ...
Ghosts, Ghouls and the Underworld
... few days have gone so quickly but the magical sights and sounds will be with me forever。 Today's excursion was to Fengdu – the "City of Ghosts）-The ghost city is a collection of fascinating temples – Buddhist， ...
Yangtze Cruise
... water diversion project is under way to protect this historic landmark. Depending on water level, your cruiser may instead docks at Fengdu - China's "City of Ghosts", where you visit temples and shrines dedicated to the gods of the underworld. This is the ...
Yangtze River Cruise
... and all others on the other side! Strange! We sat with 4 Germans at our table. Buffet Breakie was great. The boat stopped at Fengdu "Ghost city" which is 104 miles from Chongqing. A lot of vendors were trying to sell their ware to us when we got off ...
Visiting Fengdu, the "Ghost City"
6:15am Just got up a few minutes ago. I think this morning I'm going to visit Fengdu, also called the "Ghost City." I think it's calle that because of the displaced residents, having had to move because the town will be flooded soon because ...
Fengjie, still on the Yangtze River
9:45am We've stopped for one of the sites that I didn't feel like paying extra for, the "White King's Castle", I believe it's called. we should take off in around 15 minutes, off towards the first of the 3 gorges. I met up with some ...
Yangtze Cruise and The Three Gorges
So much for sleeping in, we had to be on deck by 07H00 to see the first of the three gorges, the Qu Tang Gorge. We could not be late as 20 minutes later we would be through the gorge, it was definitely worth getting up early. Time for a quick ...
Yangtze Cruise and the Ghost Town of Fengdu
... clocks and a good reason, like going on an excursion. Our first excursion was on our first afternoon to Fengdu Ghost Town. This immediately congers up images of deserted towns with creaking doors and tumbleweed blowing in the wind. Wrong! This ...
The Ghost City of Fengdu
We disembarked the ship to go to the Gost City of Fengdu. We were warned that this excursion has lots of stairs to climb and the first one started right outside the ship. After a short ride in a golfcart we arrived at the bottom of the gost city and ...
loud shouty pushy people! grrr!!
... made our way back to the boat to get back into bed. hot water came on at about 11 and it was the best shower in china so far! spent the day sleeping, reading, looking out the window at the incredibly dreary view. still no sun. just v cloudy and overcast. ...
Princess Sheena
... in. We docked on the other side of the river and although the old city is now completely submerged we were visiting 'Fengdu Ghost City'. This place is a representation of the Chinese afterlife and it was all a bit weird! A local guide ...
Erster Tag am Schiff
... da Häuser und Minisiedlungen. Ansonsten wirkt das meiste recht unberührt. Am Nachmittag erreichen wir unser erstes Ausflugsziel. In Fengdu befindet sich die „City of Ghost". Fengdu ist eine vollkommen neu geschaffene künstliche Stadt am ...
The New City of Fengdu
... it had been there forever and it was bustling with shoppers. I'm going to let the pictures tell the rest of the story. Fengdu was our last stop before disembarking in Chingqing and today would be our last day at this relaxed pace of touring in the ...
Entry 7 - Fengdu
... /2011 - 4/11/2011 - 5/11/2011 1st morning on ship and we wake up to be found docked at ghost city in fengdu spending around 2hours in a tour group around the small monumental town which consisted of many small temples and statues of different meanings, a ...
Fengdu - The Ghost City, on the Yangtze
... was a buffet included in the price of our tickets,so we tried to fill up before heading out to The Ghost City of Fengdu! At 8:30am we docked, disembarked, and took a tour bus through the demolished old Fengdu City. It had to be moved across the river ...
Day 9
Day 9 I wake up and open the curtain to find we have docked at Fengdu Ghost City (Which flooded, so they moved to the town to higher ground on the other side) with its traditional looking Chinese Pagodas perched high on the hill side. I've decided that ...
Judgment Time - Will we pass?
... a few inquisitive stares as we walked by them. Our tour guide Bonnie was knowledgeable and tried to give us a good history of Fengdu. Unfortunately, she spoke very softly, even with a microphone and so we found it difficult to hear her most of the times ...
Love songs on the Shennong Stream
Day 14 - Passed through two of the three gorges today which was a little disappointing due to the poor visibility from mist. In the afternoon we took another boat up a tributary of the Yangtze - The Shennong Stream. It is fascinating to ...
Where's that city!? That'll be Fengdu Ghost city!
... . The city from a distance looked dead but people were up and making noises - not that deserted then! As it happens Fengdu Ghost City comprised the temple complex which is quite large, and the ghost bit represented the Taoist belief system as well as ...
Ghost City
... the river to the steps. Next, we continued climbing up the steps to the town and then hiking up to the ghost town of FengDu to Buddhist shrines to see the goddess of heaven. However, there are many depictions of hell as well. We observed ...
Ghost city....but not deserted
... we got off the boat and visited the Ghost City. This doesn't mean a city that is no longer used - (not possible in China with the population)- but more a place where dead spirits go. The three hours walking around the ghost city were fascinating and ...
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
... a more perfect way to wind down after two intense weeks of traveling. The three gorges aside, our boat also stopped in Fengdu, or the ghost city, supposedly the judgment place for all spirits of the recently-deceased in the entire world. Of course, ...
caving in china
... after a while to stop a bus with enough room for us to take us and the gear back to Wulong. Some links on Caves/karst in China http://www.hongmeigui.net/areas.php?area=houping http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/video-china-karst/ ...
Yangtze River Cruise, Day 1
It has been so enjoyable relaxing on the cruise. And quite adventurous. This morning we went on a shore excursion to Fengdu, a relocation village from the Three Gorges Dam project. The dam was constructed to harness clean energy, but also to ...
Ghost Town
Well my morning was waking up and finding out I was on a trip to the Ghost Town of Fengdu. Apparently there are 75 Buddha and Tao temples in the town of Fengdu, most of them gathered on a hill named Ming Mountain. I first visited the 'Temple of ...
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