This morning we stopped at the town named Shibaozhai which has a red pagoda. The entire town was demolished and a new town was built at a higher elevation due to the higher river levels because of the dam. A wall was built around the pagoda to prevent it from being destroyed by the river. It…
Category: Yangtze River
China Trip – Post #11: Day 8 of Tour – Yangtze River Cruise – Godess Stream
This morning the scenery was wonderful. I captured a timelapse video from my balcony with my GoPro. I’ll probably have to wait until I leave China to upload the video to YouTube. Below picture is on the Yangtze River before arriving at Godess Stream. At 09:00 we took a small boat to a scenic…
China Trip – Post #10 – Day 7 of Tour: Yangtze River and 3 Gorges Dam
The stop in the morning was at a scenic spot called the water village. We took a nice walk along the river and into a gorge to a beautiful waterfall. We also saw a few macau monkeys with babies. During lunch the ship moved to a location near the 3 Gorges Dam….