CHINA #18 YANGTZE RIVER CRUISE -THREE GORGES DAM

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3rd
FARMERS CAMPED OUT WAITING FOR THE TOURIST

 

 OUR TOUR GUIDE FOR THE DAM EXPLAINING THINGS WHILE

TRAVELING ON THE BUS TO THE DAM SITE

 PASSING OVER ONE OF THE LOCKS ON OUR WAY TO THE DAM

 A MODEL OF THE DAM PROJECT

 GOING UP TO THE OBSERVATION AREA

 SHE POSED FOR US AS WE WERE HEADING UP THE ESCALATORS

 MADGE & RICHARD DUCE

 JOHN AND I

AN OBSERVATION AREA ON TOP OF THIS BUILDING

 THE DAM
The worlds largest hydroelectricity project

 POLICE PRESENCE OF COURSE

LEAVING SANDOUPINGZHEN (THE DAM)

CHINA #17 YANGTZE RIVER CRUISE - 5 LOCKS

FRIDAY EVENING

OCTOBER 2nd 

ON OUR WAY TO THE THREE GORGES DAM

 WE HAD TO GO THROUGH 5 LOCKS BEFORE ARRIVING AT THE DAM

IT TOOK AROUND THREE HOURS.  WE ARRIVED AT THE

 FIRST LOCK AROUND 10:00 PM 

WE WILL VISIT THE DAM TOMORROW MORNING

NUMBER 1

 

 NUMBER 2

 WE STAYED UP TO SEE THREE LOCKS THEN WE WENT TO BED

NUMBER 3

 I WOKE UP IN TIME TO SEE US PASSING THROUGH THE LAST LOCK

FROM OUR BALCONY LOOKING BACK AT THE LAST DOOR WE WENT THROUGH

CHINA #16 YANGTZE RIVER CRUISE - OUTANG GORGE & WU GORGE

 WHEN THEY PUT IN THE DAMN THE WATER RAISED UP TO 170 METERS (around 450 feet)

MANY HOMES WERE LOST IN THIS PROCESS.  FARMERS HAD TO MOVE TO THE CITY

 

 I DIDN'T KNOW THAT ROCK (our guide) WAS BEHIND US MAKING A FACE

 AN UNUSUAL BURIAL PLACE FOR A LOVED ONE, BUT NOT UNCOMMON

 

A FEW MONKS LIVE IN THIS TEMPLE ON THE SIDE OF THE HILL

 A CLOSE UP OF THEIR HOME

 ON BOARD OUR SHIP WE HAD AN ARTIST WHO DID SILK EMBROIDERY

 AND ALSO AN ARTIST IN SNUFF PAINTING

(paints on the inside of whatever he is making)

I BOUGHT A NECKLACE AND A JEWERLY CONTAINER

 JOE, JOHN AND RICHARD