Yangtze River Stories


Ghost City

We had a 6:00AM wake up blow horn, which was followed by a lot of yelling and talking. Susan thought we were being taken over by Chinese Pirates, and when we peeked out our window, we were inches from another boat where we could see people walking around and flashes going off. It might have been a close call, but we never found out what happened or wh...


Dragon Day 2

In the morning, Nathan got up at 5:30am to see the sunrise and take some pictures. We then had another nice western breakfast before boarding a smaller boat to explore the Lesser Three Gorges. These three gorges are on a Yangtze River tributary, and the water is a much more pleasant color. We boarded the boat with our China PAC group (our adopted family...


The Dragon cruise begins!

After 12 hours sleep we were still up before the sunrise and were delighted to see that other people had joined us on the boat. The dining room had assigned seating, and we were lucky enough to be paired with an 8 person group traveling together from Canada, Minnesota, and Poland. Everyone was very friendly, and they had been traveling together for abou...


Mountain Life

Today was our first full day on the boat. We slept on the criuse ship overnight even though we had not set sail yet. Once Rich woke up, I watched a bit of The Incredible Hulk until the ship was off. The breakfasts here were not too impressive this morning. After breakfast we got off the boat just east of Yichang to tour the three gorges dam. Th...