Yueyang Hotel
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Yueyang (Again)
... Three Kingdoms Period, when Lu Su, commander in chief of the forces of Wu, was sent to the area to fortify it and train the fleet there. To ease the inspection and command of ships he constructed a tower near the strategic location where Lake Dongting joins the Yangtze River, from which the whole of Lake Dongting was visible. This inspection tower, then called the Ba Ling Tower after the nearby city of Ba Ling, was the first incarnation of Yueyang ...
Yueyang and the Yangtze River
Yueyang is a prefecture-level city (over 5-millon people) at the northeastern corner of Hunan province, South Central China, on the southern shores of Dongting Lake.
We visited an elementary school sponsored by Viking River Cruises. We were greeted and entertained by the children, we came prepared and gave boxes of crayons. The Yangtze River is causing minor flooding as we continue to head upstream towards the Three Gorges ...
Return To Yueyang
... a favorite place of Mao Tse-Tung, Father of the Chinese Revolution.
Because the day will skyrocket toward 100 degrees, we head to Yueyang Tower Park first thing in the morning. The park and garden are thousands of years old and overlook and drop with switch-backed promenades toward the shore of Dongting Lake.
At the heart of these ancient Chinese gardens is Yueyang Tower, known as one of the three great towers south of the ...
Yue yang (temples, lake and traffic jams)
... Got stuck in a traffic jam – almost stopped for 2 hours, felt like I was in Germany again, except everyone in the car was shouting at each other. About what I do not know. They were just talking about something. When we drove life was peaceful, but sitting still. Oh boy! Thank God I had my iPod with me, so glad the battery lasted. Had earache afterwards.
Back late. To a restaurant. Our little group sitting alone. Excellent grub as usual. Can’t fault the food around ...
Lost in Translation
... food. We sat and watched the sun go down over the Gorges before doing a bit of bargaining at the souvenir stalls! Sooner than we thought we could get back on the boat and have dinner, the same greasy food as lunch..uggggh! We got extra blankets, there was no way we could have a repeat of last night!
On the third day we were told we could have a lie in and around 11am Pang came to pick us up for our first daily excursion. Still no idea where we ...
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