Pea Pod Boat on the Shennong Stream

Three Gorges and Shennong Stream

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November 9th 2010
What a wonderful day today. We woke early again and were breakfasting at 7am to be ready to leave the boat by 8 am. Very cold today and the thermals came out for the first time - I had a scarf and ski jacket on and was very comfortable!! This time we transferred to a medium sized ferry which took us up the Shennong Stream, a tributory of the Yangtze River where the people of the Shen Nong Xi op ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more