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Dennis and Renee

On the top deck of our boat waiting to leave Chongqing for the start of our Yangze river cruise.
Setting off from Chongqing on our Yangze River Cruise

April 5th 2013
When we get to the harbour in Chongqing we have to go down in a kind of cable car that runs down the sloped bank towards the docked ships. We are welcomed on board the Oriental Emporer and are assigned our cabins so go to find out what they are like. They are pretty good apart from the cigarette smoke smell, so we open the sliding windows that open out onto a view of Chongqing's skyscrapers to ... read more
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