Seperated Time

Episode 10 - 3 days trip on the Yangtze River

Sunday, March 15, 2009 4:39 AM

I have return to my room. Such a good feeling. It was fun and good experience to go to 3 Gorges but when I got there I got sick again. Why? This is because I ate something to make my stomach not feeling good and there goes my holiday. Even I am a bit sick it is not going to stop me to enjoy myself.

We woke up at 6 am to get ready to go to the bus that will take us to 3 Gorges. We will spend 3 days for the cruize at the Yangtze River. The bus start to depart at 7.15 am. It will take about 4 to 4 1/2 hours to reach a town call 宜昌(Yi Chang). On the road to Yi Chang there are some beautiful scenery that I have taken. I have never seen such a beautiful scene by traveling on a highway before.

Look at me not feeling well

We arrive at Yi Chang about 12 pm and we had lunch there. The restaurant name is Yansha Da Jiudian. It was good but with my stomach not feeling well it was no helping. Nevertheless I ate some and it was somehow good but one vegetable are too salty.

The restaurant we eat at Yi Chang

After the meal we are on our way to the 3 Gorges Dam. Also on the way there are some more beautiful scenery.

so high

There is one mountain they call Mao Tong San, which they say that Mao Zedong is lying on the mountain.

saw a man lying on the mountain?

When we arrive on the dam the scenery is so spetecular. At the dam there are 3 spot. The first one over look the dam and the area around it. It was so beautiful.

the dam

writing something

The second spot is much lower and we can look directly at the dam.

so close

The third and last spot is a Memorial Park. The memorial park is also beautiful and it was a scene that look straight into the front of the dam.

Entrance to the park

Straight at the dam

We finish the 3 Gorges Dam tour at about 6 pm and the days is not over. We need to rush to dinner to board a ship for our cruise along the Yangtze River. I hope the captain of the ship is not mad at us because we are late by 1 hour. The lecturer say that the bedroom are very small and I mean small it was very very small. Not that only that the toilet was very low or I was too tall.

Small room

Even smaller toilet

Oh, and did I mention that I and Yi Sheng sleep on the second floor. What good is that about is that there is a boucany on the second floor. This mean that I and my friends can go out the and have a look. That is why we go out there on that night and it was amazing and all of us are hyper. There is a catch, it was night time. This mean that no picture can be taken. So sad but there is this one bridge at night that I have taken so hope you all like it.

Bridge at night

On that night I sleep the earliest because I'm not feeling well. Then at about 10 pm I woke up and I find it strange why the ship is not moving. The reason is that we are crossing a 'lock'. This lock is not the lock that we all use to keep stuff. It was a lock that enable a ship or boat to go up or down a small hill. It takes about 1 hour for the ship to clear the lock. I did not take any picture because I was tire and sleepy. So back to sleep.

Mr. Chong say that we have to wake up at 6 am. but it was later change to 7 am. This cause me my sleep because I woke up at 5.30 am. and just to find out that nobody's waking up. Then I sleep again and woke up at 6 something. Not a good experience. I had a bit of breakfast only and then later at 8 something got to sleep again. Why? I don't know. Even I sleep again I woke up at 9 something and just in time to got our first tour to go to Shen Niong Xi. We got off our cruise ship to a smaller ship and when we are at Shen Niong Xi we got to a even smaller boat.

Our small Boat

What there is so great about that place is nothing is great. A normal place with amazing scenery and a good experience of the small boat that we took. What is so great about the boat look at the picture I don't know how to descript it.

Entering Shen Niong Xi

Our smaller Boat

It seems that that is how the people there pull the small boat when go to a shallow place. I thought I will be cool but it was HOT. Oh the sun, the river, not a good combination but a good experience to gain.

Being over taken

This is how they pull

We got back to our cruise ship at about 2 pm and ate lunch at 2.30 pm. After that lunch we got a full day to waste. Yeah........ so boring, help me. Have no fear because we go to the observation deck to enjoy the cruise and take some more photos. Oh yeah they, I mean the tourist guide, say that we can encounter the 3 Gorges and nothing happen. It was well I miss it. What I mean is that I don't understand it and I miss it. Well don't worry I save the best for the last. The last 3 Gorges is so beautiful that it was on the 10 yuan note. Here is a comparission of the real and the 10 yuan note.

Seeing is believing. Soooo beautiful and no words can descript it. You just have to go there and experience it yourselve. It was a good wait because the last one is 2 hours away from the other 2 gorges. And we arrive to our last destination on this cruise. On this place we visited like a temple. It was tiring to go to this temple because it was situated on a hill. So tired until my first sweat came out. This mean I have not sweat ever scene I came to China on the first day. Back to the story, this temple looks like a normal temple but it has some suspended coffin. A special coffin and the other time is just going around the temple and explore it.

Entering the temple

Suspended coffin drawing Real coffin

I regret something I came to this temple. I did not buy a comb here for my sister. But I think I will have other chance. After that we ate our dinner at 9 pm. It was a long day and I was tired and sleep at 10 pm.

Third day on the cruise and the last day which is 15 March(Sunday). The morning is cool and beautiful and we have arrive at Yi Chang already. It really puzzle me that how they got back to Yi Chang so quickly. So it was a good day and I'm feeling better and it was time to go back to Wuhan. We arrive at WUST at about 3 something.