On Friday, i was supposed to wake up early so i could have my breakfast before boarding the tour bus. In the end I woke up 7.05am when we are suppose to meet at 7.20am. Rush through the hot shower and wait for the water to boil to fill up my bottle. I was the last one who boarded the bus. What a joke i am. wahaha

We had to travel for about 5 hours to yi chang which is located outside wuhan along the Yangtze River. We then had our late breakfast at a hotel restaurant. Soon, with another hour with passing through all the tunnels and mountains we reached the 3 gorges dam.It is the largest hydroelectric power station in the world. It take about 4 hours to bring a boat up/down the dam which consist of 5 stages.

The dam use as flood control and power generation but many are sacrifice archaeological and cultural sites , displaced some 1.24 million people, and is causing great ecological changes.
Many different views of the dam were explored and seen.

After viewing, we headed back to the same hotel restaurant to have our lunch, we proceeded to the harbour to board on to our ship call " yin yue liang".1 day, 2 nights were spend on the cruise.
At around 11pm, We are experiencing the process of bringing the boat up Gezhou Dam which is completed in 1988 . The whole experience was a great new and learning process. After the process ended, most of the people headed back to have a good rest.



The next morning we woke up early and changes to a smaller viewing boat and headed right into the Shennong Stream. Over the cliff of rocky surface or some cave holes, there lies the evidence of suspended or hanging coffin. It is an ancient burial system of Tujia ethic. Coffin were caught visible on the cliff while cruising along Shennong Stream . Most of the coffins are gone due to archeological study or washed away by the elevation of water level. These hanging coffin were made of tree trunk and usually positioned on wooden planked nailed to the cliff of the mountains. The belief of buried high, as close as possible to the sky will allow the soul to be closer to God as we were told.

Soon, we change to a smaller boat as we are in the shallow spots at the vicinity of Three Great Gorges of the Tujia ethnic. After taking the small boat to the shallow water, it is their tradition to pull the boat up against the current of the water using ropes

On the way back, we were entertained by our local tour guide.She sang us a few Tujia folk song and promote their local folk songs CD for us to purchase, which some of us did.

After visiting the tujia ethic, we proceeded back to our main boat and sail up the Yangtze river and pass by many mountain. If you happen to hold on to a 10RMB note, there is a valley of mountain seen at the back of the note. We are there at that point of time. We reached the area walk up to the harbour, take a small bus ride and soon we reached our next destination, "baidichen". There we see historical items and listen to the legend of famous peoples from the novel of the romance of the 3 kingdoms.

The area there are famous for comb made from wood of the trees which age are a few hundred years. As times goes by, by the time we left the place was already 830pm. As we are walking to the harbour, i went to buy local fried seafood which was very nice.

We spent the night back in our cruise and headed back to yi chang in the night, many unforgotten scenery remembered. We took bus in the morning which lasted us about 8 hours, and finally we are safety back in our hostel.