Mountains & more mountains!

Had our breakfast on the cruise. After which, we changed to another ferry. To and fro, we spent approxiamtely four hours on the ferry. The scenery was beautiful! I wished I can stay at that place on a long term basis. Ha ha.

I managed to take a photo of 长江大桥. (=

^^

Row row, row a boat.... la la la.... Ha ha! I don't know the lyrics of this song. But this scene reminds me of the song.

We sat on those boats and on each boat, there will be one tour guide doing the introduction on 神农溪 and the people living there [土家族].

船夫们 (:

In old times, they used to be naked when pulling the boat with the ropes. That was because they had poor family background thus they did not have money to buy clothes. But now, the river has became one of the tourist attractions.
In this photo, they were pulling the boat with the rope as the water has become too shallow for the paddles. It was a tough job for all of them. Actually I felt guilty when I saw them pulling the boat. ): I think most of them are aged between 50 to 60 plus? But they still looked very fit!

After the tour guide was done with the introduction, she sang us few common love songs among the 土家族. It was like their culture to sing love songs when a guy wants to woo a girl. I have recorded now the songs using my camera but not very clear. I think the songs are nice but of course it sounds quite different from modern songs. I bought a CD for my parents to listen to. Hope they will like it! :]

Take a closer look at this photo! Don't you think it is familiar?

It is the picture which is at the back of the 10 RMB note. Don't believe?

Check it out then! :P

Sunset...

After visiting sheng nong xi, we visited bai di cheng. It's a place which is full of historical background and artifacts.

We had to climb up many flight of stairs in order to get to bai di cheng. A good exercise for all of us!

Sedans! I want to have a try of sitting on it!

Basically, for these 3 days & 2 nights at 3 Gorges, I learnt more about the geographical location of the river and a deeper understanding of the history in China especially on how and why the dams are built.

I also realised that those natural sceneries are really amazing!! A good example would be the Mao dong shan. It looks exactly like Mao zedong with our imaginations. Hee hee.

As for the third day, we alighted from the cruise at around 7.30 am. To get back to our hostel, we took around 8 hours of bus journey! It was really tiring for all of us. That's about all.