Yichang
Travel Blogs from Yichang, China
Day 36
... book recommended - even though the receptionists down stairs couldn't recognise the name written in English! We headed to the Yichang International Hotel (very tall and posh) and used their little travel centre to book the hydrofoil tickets. It's an ...
The Three lots of Three Gorges
... brick and as the silt is building up in the river due to pollution in about 70 years the dam will be useless. As boat arrives in Yichang at about 3.30 (although you can stay on board til 6) we decided to stay up and try and get as bus asap to Wuhan so ...
Cruising down the mighty Yangzi river
... , Sunday 19 June, our magical two day cruise of the mighty Yangzi river came to an end. We're spending the night in Yichang before taking a bus to Wuchan tomorrow, from where we will board a night train to Guilin. Our two days aboard a passenger boat ...
Dam That's Big!
We got the overnight train and arrived in Yichang around midday. We bought an onwards ticket to Xian for the evening with the help of an English speaking Chinese girl. With our train leaving at 5 pm we jumped in a taxi to the Three Gorges Dam. She ...
Life on Carriage 13
We made the most of our late train out of Guangzhou and slept in until 11am; a luxury we haven't had for a while. We walked the 200 meters to the train station and found that we had to have our bags x-rayed on entering. Not something we normally have ...
Overnight in Yichang
... one further hour on the bus, which I managed to survive. We got dropped off at our digs for the night, the Hotel Chujiang in Yichang. The hotel is quite basic but met our needs for our one night stay. We ate in the hotel tonight, rice, beef, dumplings ...
Three Gorges Speedcruise
... up being able to get on one all sat seperatly. Another hour later and completely knackered we staggered off the bus in Yichang (Another population of 4.1 Million). Unbelievably despite all the unknowns and variable a little man ran over to us, at first we ...
Guilin to Yichang
Rachel, Ari and myself headed to a local pub in Yangshuo to relax before our massive journey to Yichang. It was a fantastic opportunity to let our hair down after what has been a massive trip so far. The journey began at 5pm where we caught our bus ...
i am a source of endless amusement
... which is unknown, that maybe it's only unknown because i lack knowledge about it, not because it's inherently strange. i leave yichang on a hydrofoil up the yangzi river to chongqing tomorrow morning. yichang is the town closest to the three gorges ...
Thankfully Stuck in Yichang
... plan to get out of dodge as soon as we'd arrived, but we were scuppered by the pesky Chinese buying all the tickets out of Yichang before we had a chance to buy them. We'd arrived on a Friday morning, and to get to the place we wanted to next visit would ...
Three Gorge Dam
... cruise ship along the Yangzi. After visiting this massive project, the group travelled for a few hours by bus back to Yichang's airport for our 1 hour flight Yichang to Shanghai. But we only had a couple of hours at Shanghai's International Airport, ...
Yichang, the freezing cruise begins
We boarded the boat in the evening at Yichang, for our cruise on the Yangtze river after seeing the 3 gorges dam construction site earlier in the day. That was a pretty boring waste of time, where we were subjected to a view of the dam from ...
China's Mega Dam!
***Mao comments reinserted after leaving China*** If you zoom into about 70% magnification on my satellite map on this blog, you can see this massive dam that's about 1.4 miles long (~2300M) or about as long as the Golden Gate Bridge. At 100% zoom, you ...
Yichang
... that I noticed 4 million people live there! The 3 gorges are under threat due to a controversial dam that is being built in Yichang. By 2007 they should be submerged but provide hydro-electric power for 10% of the country. To get to the dam we had to ...
The Life of Ri, by Rann Macktell
... time for my bed. It had been an absolutely amazing day though, well worth the money for the cruise. It was just a shame that we had to get up at 5AM the next morning in order to disembark in Yichang. The party was over and it was back to terra ...
Yichang - NO STORY.
Yichang is where we left the cruise and flew onto Shanghai - please read our next ...
Back in Yichang
... at once coz I don't want to spend all my time in seedy internet cafes. The night was really good. First we went for a Yichang Hot Pot in a local restaurant. This was really good fun. Basically you get big bowl that contains to circular areas inside it, ...
Yichang & Sleeper Train
Today was a bit of a dull one really. After a morning walk to the bank for some more Yuan and a visit to the internet cafe it was time to get the overnight sleeper train to Xi'an. Whilst on the train, I watched Die Hard 4 on the PSP whilst Lorna went ...
Day 42: The Three Gorges Dam
... and flex their muscles. One of them even came up and shook Jones's hand. It was so bizarre. We took a bus later that day from Yichang back to Wuhan. It was only supposed to take about three hours, but I guess "three hours" in China is code for "six of ...
Yangze River Cruise (Cruise?)
The restaurant was awful, first we were overcharged, a common trait in China, then Jens, our Danish friend, was the envy of us all when he found half a metal washer in his food! After that we eat at the street stalls when we docked. We really had a ...
The 3 Mini Gorges
Not enough sleep! Our muppet guide, who by this time we had got to acknowledge that we exist, knocked on the door at 0630. This mattered not to us as our socially inept roomie go up at 0530 again and make a big song and dance of hawking up the usual ...
Yichang and the 3 gorges
Before arriving in Yichang my son said to keep things simple in this city. As soon as we arrived yesterday we went to the concierge and asked about a tour to the 3 gorges dam. The concierge told us that we could sign for the tour right then. We did paying ...
Yichang
Arrived in Yichang after a long day, absolutely wreaked, only have a 5 hour bus journey now for Wuhan. Will catch up on a few zzzzzzzzzz on the bus ...
Gorgeous Gorges
10:04 I woke today to housekeeping knocking on the door at 750. As I hadn't yet missed breakfast I literally got out of bed, put my shoes and a jumper on, ran some water through my hair and then went to breakfast. After brekkie I went back to the room, ...
The dish to end all dishes!
Well we did it; and after reading the last entry not a lot of people wanted us to do it, but we did anywayz! Two nights ago we had roasted rat for dinner and stir-fried dog. It was our last night in Yangshou and we saw it on the menu, so it ...
Yangtze cruise
I took a relaxing cruise along the third longest river in the world. This place is about to change dramatically (flooded) in ...
Yangzi River Beach
Hello kids! First we left Chengdu for Chongquing on a 4 hours bus, where we watched "The Eraser" with Arnold Shwarzenegger (something like that...) in Chinese. Kind of scary! At the moment I am writing this, we just arrived from a 3 days cruise on ...
Cruisin' on the Yangtze
... . There are none. Overtaking is encouraged at any moment, particularly when approaching a blind corner, hill, or a suicidal truck driver. Yichang was the base from which we took a bus to get on our Yangtze river 2 day cruise. We had a very ...
