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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
... filled colorful structure is now home to hundreds of boys and girls from babies to teens.
Anasophia leaves gifts for the children bought with money she raised in her home city of Seattle selling block printed t-shirts and tote bags. We leave all the treasured places we have visited, as part of Anasophia's return back to her roots, feeling like my daughter's pilgrimage to her birth city of Yueyang has changed us all in the most profound of ...
Yue yang (temples, lake and traffic jams)
Day-tripper again, to a city called Yueyang. A little place a couple of hours up the motorway – 600,000 inhabitants. Nice little town.
Big, drunken lunch (see the photos), with loads of Jin's buds – some big honcho in local government and his cronies. Great food, too much alcohol.
Went to see the sights, re-built, renovated, pristine almost, copy of ancient temples. I’m a little underwhelmed, as usual when I sightsee. But then so I am other places in the ...
Life on the Yangtze River
I guess now is as good a time as any to share my impressions of life on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang, the Big River). This is the first time I have every cruise along a river so I really don't have much to compare it with first hand. I do know from reading that the Yangtze has been the life blood of the country for centuries, perhaps millenia. From ...
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