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Thread: Day trips or very short trips on the river Yangtze?
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[quote=JABAROOTOO ,11378]Gotogo,Unfortunately I haven't been able to do the Shenlong stream but hear that it is prettier than the lessor three gorges and you can take a Peaboat or bamboo raft. I haven't done this yet but you can take the fast boat(Hydrofoil) from Yichang to Badong on the south bank of the river which is the town where the Shenlong stream joins the Yangtse. After next week I hope to have the sailing times and will post them on Travel tips.Wish I could give you more but we just came up to Badong from the south and had we not had people in Wuxi on the Danning River (Lessor three gorges Wushan) to visit, we would have gone to Shenlong instead. It was my second trip on the lessor three gorges. If you don't have a lot of time you should take the tour boat up the Danning and back as they run often and only take around 4/5 hours. There are only two local boats each day 7.00am and 10.00 from Wushan or Wuxi and the trip takes 5 hours each way.Many of these places still have public river transport that the locals use but you will not be told this if you ask in hotels and travel angencies. Where the roads are bad and there is a river there is likely to be a limited river transport system but I have also been told that they do not always let foreigners take these boats and all of us, my Chinese friends included were charged more than twice the 'locals' rate from Wuxi to Wushan Y76. It sometimes helps if you can travel with a Chinese friend. One that will ask all your questions until you have enough information for you to make a choice.Let me know if you get to Shenlong and we can help upgrade the sketchy information about this part of the river.[/quote]
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