This is the first dam gate that the cruise passed through. It was like... FINALLY the gate opened. We sacrified our sleeping time just to see this.
He's tying our cruise to another cruise. By the way, the cruise that we took is called "银月亮".
We waited and waited for the Three Gorges dam gate [三峡大坝] to open but in the end we gave up the thought as it was very late already. We slept at 3 plus am on the first night on the cruise. So tired & sleepy but I think it was worth it as this was a very rare chance & great experience for me!
I couldn't get used to sleeping on the cruise. It was very cold! The toilet condition wasn't as good as expected. The flushing system needs to be improved!
Basically the whole day was spent on bus journey. The departure time of the cruise was delayed from 6pm till 7pm because of us [MDE, LSCT & ECE]. We took too much time touring and taking pictures of the Three Gorges Dam and so on. So sorry for making the tour guides so stressed up. I can see that they were all trying their very best to settle things in the most appropriate way. I think being a tour guide is really a tough job. They have to be flexible and knowledgeable!
My conclusion is that punctuality is very important! There's so many of us thus we can't afford to be late.
On our way to YiChang [宜昌]...
We had our lunch at a restaurant.
She's Han Xuan, one of our tour guides. She introduced the whole schedule in details and told us some interesting things about the places that we visited. In total, we had 4 tour guides leading us. They are all nice people and protective of us.
三峡大坝
GROUP PHOTO! Our favourite! Ha ha.
One of our tour guides too.
好像人间仙境
大江曲
毛公山. The tour guide mentioned that many years back, there was this photographer who likes to travel around and take lots of photos. Then he came about this mountain and took a photo of it. He realised that it looks like the statue of Mao Zedong lying down. Thus, he sent the photo in for approval and he received a sum of money as reward. From that onwards, the mountain is named as 毛公山 as it really resembles Chairman Mao. You have to use most of your imagination to look at the mountain. I think it's really interesting.
Ci Min & I enjoyed the breeze although it was freezing~
The 长江大桥. Cool! The night scenery is so beautiful. (:
The whole process of going through the dam gate was very long as there were other boats and cruise queueing up too. We heard that there will be a signal light [it's like a traffic light]. When the light turns, it means that the cruise is allowed to pass through the gate already. 
This is the first dam gate that the cruise passed through. It was like... FINALLY the gate opened. We sacrified our sleeping time just to see this.
He's tying our cruise to another cruise. By the way, the cruise that we took is called "银月亮".