Yichang Hotels - Comments and Reviews

We left the hotel at 830 AM for another harrowing drive on Xian streets to the airport for our 1130 AM flight. As we left the hotel the driver made a U-turn in the middle of rush hour traffic. It would be like making a U-turn Saturday night on the Las Vegas strip. (The night before we actually drove on the wrong side of the street to get into ou...

Alison: We stayed in our first hotel of the trip in Yichang and though it was a pretty basic room, we loved it! Such a nice change from the hostels we had become used to. The best part was the bathroom which we were pleased to see had a western toilet. The previous accomodation only had the traditional Chinese toilet aka a fancy hole in the floo...

off the boat finally this morning at 9am. some rough looking people around. seems rice wine was downed last night in our absence! seems lee was chatted up by several chinese men - even got given a rose by one of them. onto a coach to go check out the three gorges dam. hoardes of chinese tourists again. queued to get on the dam. a rare treat - it...

Yangtze River, May 26 Miles travelled: 76960 We are on a 3-day cruise down the famed Yangtze River. The 4th-longest river in the world has its headwaters in Tibet and meanders for thousands of miles until it empties into the ocean near Shanghai. The most scenic section is the "Three Gorges", where the river narrows and passes through limestone c...

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' system similar to that used on canals that enables shipping to pass through the dams. We lef...

Becky, Katie and I were just hanging out under the covered area on the deck of the boat one night, slowly cruising down the river, when we suddenly saw several pillars towering out of the water and lit up from below. "Oh that's kind of cool.... Do you think that's part of the dam?" "Yeah, maybe... We're probably getting pretty close to it, anywa...