Blogs from Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Asia - page 33

After a late night of Nanjing bar cabbing we were up far too early but as it is our last full day here it had to be done.Walked a few blocks and tried another restaurant.Good news an english menu so my foggy brain was not challenged and the resultant meal excellent.After breakfast we tok a cab to see the mausoleum of Dr Sun Yatsen the father of modern China who came up with the three principles of the people, Nationalism,Democracy and the People's livelihood.Again it seems we were not the only ones with such a plan for the day.The place was swarming with buses and cabs and people by the thousands.As we approached a small girl came up to us with her parents closely shadowing.She launched into a little speech introducing herself and welcoming us to ... read more

We are up at 5 am packed and ready to go by 6:30.The ship has packed a breaqkfast for us and a young looking guide arrives promptly at the appointed hour. She does not speak much english but takes us on a tour of the Three gorges Dam anyway. This pam project is the largest construction project in the world and they are still building another power generating station to house another 14 generators as well as a ship elevator to lift container ships up to the river elevations.The things is huge and while hazy/foggy you could feel the power of the water flowing out of the sluice gates. We are deposited at the bus station in Yi Chang for the 5 hours bus ride to Wuhan.We slept a bit on the half empty bus but ... read more

In China, they have a National Holiday which is a week of break that allows people to go back to their hometown and celebrate with their families. Well, for National Holiday My program planned a tour package for us. Our tour package would take us to Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. We took a train ride to our initial destination which was Nanjing. Somehow we booked our tickets too late so we caught the slow train. The train ride ended up to be 17 hours. The train had bunk beds that stacked up three beds high so we were able to sleep. We finally reach Nanjing and meet up with our tour group. The tour group consisted of 40 people and it just so happens that this tour group was all international people. We hoped ... read more

Breakfast at 8 and the day begins.Actually we have already been on the balcony for a while.The Brit across from us is thrilled with the discovery of toast and we have a good laugh about his culinary find in this land of such delights.Ann settles in for what is later described as her bets manicure ever and i chat on deck with a couple from denmark.The river slips by and ships come and go.We enter the first gorge at about 10 and thoough it is a short one only 8 kms in length it is spectacular with towering peaks and sheer cliffs dropping down to the great river.Lots of pictures are taken and we all agree this is great. The next gorge is much longer,about 45 kms and we are comfortable settled on the foredeck watching ... read more

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