A six day return journey up the Yangtze River to the three gorges dam.
5am at Chaotianmen Docks in Chongqing.Occasional stops allow you to get off the boat to on shore. Our boat is on the far right.Chinese flag blows in the wind. Much of the Yangtze River is hazy throughout the year.Orange sellersA tanker goes past the landscape printed on the back of a 10 yuan note.A furniture factory in an abandoned building on the Yangtze.Not one of the Yangtze's prettiest sights. Since the rise in the water, many towns are either submerged or abandoned.The three gorges dam.The scale of the dam.Tour boats docked in Wanzhou.A riverside coal power station.After a while the landscape of the gorges becomes very samey. Coal shipping. The Yangtze is still a major transportation route for raw materials and goods.Gates to the White Kingdom City.
