Yangtze River Travel Reviews

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The cradle of Chinese civilization and the Chinese race, the Yellow River is called the Mother River, providing fertility to the land. Legend says a dragon from the river brought to the Chinese the strokes from which the Chinese characters developed, according to Clapp. There is another side to the ... Details

One of the most popular folk tales in China tells about a ninety year old man named Yugong who inconveniently lives between two mountains. One day he decides to move the mountains and aided by his children and grandchildren, starts leveling them. It takes them a full year to travel back and forth to ... Details

Yangtse Cruise – upstream (August 2002)

Part One

From the moment this trip was booked it was expected to be the highlight of our holiday as before very long the Three Gorges Project will be completed.

From our hotel in Wuhan we had been due to join our cruise ship, the President ... Details

Of all the factors that have worked together to fashion China into a huge land of mystery and intrigue, the tremendous influence of the Yangtze River upon the people and their culture is beyond dispute. Holding distinction as one of the nation’s two “Mother Rivers”, the Yangtze bisects ... Details

It was a sunny day when my cruise ship left from Chongqing Port –Chao Tian Gate on the 22nd of July. It was my first time to travel on a river. I was quite excited at that time. When the horn sounded my Yangtze River cruise began.

I stood on the sundeck to see the spectacular scenery ... Details

The temperature had been dropping for the past two days and now in the mountains it was surprisingly cool for late summer. Wuxi deep in the wild mountains north of the Yangtze on the Daning River, is home to the Lesser Three Gorges and the Lesser, Lesser Three Gorges. We arrived just before dark after ... Details

The mist, the river, the colour of the sky, nothing had changed in the morning. I walked out on deck to see a gigantic Buddha arranged on a hillside, each part of the body made out of what appeared to be a white building, connected by a series of staircases up the mountain. A tourist attraction and ... Details

As Paul Theroux, the well-known travel writer once observed, "there is no Yangtze River". The river known to the rest of the world by this name is principally referred to in China as Chang Jiang, which means 'The Long River', and this is perhaps because it is China's greatest river. The Yangtze ... Details

This afternoon, I felt a tinge of loneliness; an unnerving sensation that I do not feel very often since leaving my own native country of Australia more than three years ago. The hilly city of Chong Qing (also known as “Chung-king” in pre-Pinyin China), is only a four hour eastward bus ride ... Details