China - Three Gorges Yangtze Cruise Oct. 8-10

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October 10th 2012
Oct. 8. Last night we boarded our Yangtze cruise boat, the Victoria Jenna, in Chongqing, by some measures the largest city in the world with 33 million people. Fortunately, we passed through the city at midnight, so we weren't held up by any traffic here. I can't imagine what that must be like! You may have heard of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze, largest dam in the world and ... 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