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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
We start of the day early with a trip to Tianmenshan in a Cable car.
天門山
Map of Tianmenshan
Cable Car Trail
Mist was rather heavy at this time from far
Proximity Skyflying at Mount Tianmen
Wing-suit flight is also called "Proximity Skyflying", which started less than
20 years ago. The flyers fly down from tall buildings, towers, bridges and
cliffs wearing wing-suits, close to the high buildings or natural landscapes. In 2011 Red bull wing outfit flight through Tianmen Mountain performance was held by
Zhangjiajie Government, aiming to let the world know Zhangjiajie better.
This year, on October they are back again for the challenge. Too bad our timing was not right.
Yangtze River
Boarding the Century Diamond Cruise for our
Yangtze River Cruise, with a balcony room.
View from the balcony.
三峽人家
We docked at one of the port and joined a trip to visit the tribes of the Three Gorges.
The Three-Gorges Tribe scenic spot consists mainly of the Village on the Water, the Brook-Side Village, the Mountain-Top Village. The area has been officially designated as a "Protected Center of the Popular Culture and Art of the Three Gorges.”
The Three-Gorges Tribe is located on Xiling Gorge in the city of Yichang, between the Three-Gorges Dam and the Gezhouba Dam, in a region of mountains and streams where the scenery has the beauty of landscape paintings. Young women dance and sing as old sailboats moor placidly below stilt houses hidden in the bamboo grove. Maidens wash clothes by the brook side with their whirling batons, fishermen cast their nets in the misty distance… Entering the region feels like coming from afar into a dreamland garden.
Later..in the afternon
An excursion to the construction project
of the Three Gorges Dam,the biggest in the world.
Still constructing.
Entering the Dam.
The Three Gorges Dam 三峽大壩 is a dam in the Three Gorges region on the Yangtze River. The dam was built for flood control, irrigation and electricity.
Cruising into the three little Gorges
This day, we packed into a smaller boat and visit the three little gorges...
which refers to the three gorges of the lower reaches of Daning River (the largest branch of Yangtze River) in Wushan County - Dragon Gate Gorge (Longmen Xia), Misty Gorge (Bawu Xia), and Emerald Gorge (Dicui Xia). Because of its beauty, it has been said that although Wushan Three Little Gorges are not the Three Gorges of Yangtze River, they are almost the same.
Coffins spotted in the hill caves... these are actually old times ritual
which no longer being practise now.
With these ends our China Zhangjiajie trip............
Signing off with the entertainers from the Cruise ship.
再見
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