Photoholic....thru' the lens of a traveller: CHINA ZHANGJIAJIE OCT 2012 张家界 Part 2

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

CHINA ZHANGJIAJIE OCT 2012 张家界 Part 2

Posted by Ds at 5:51 PM

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.