China Day 10 - Lesser Gorges 8/25/12
Today we got off the ship onto small ferry boats and toured through the lesser gorges. So nice and cool. The weather is perfect today with blue skies and no haze whatsoever...very unusual for the gorges, especially this time of year. We docked at Wushan, not to be confused with Wuhan which we stopped at a few days ago. The cities are starting to look similar, with highrise buildings alongside the shore.
Wushan is a new city that has been built in the past 15 years or so as dam construction got underway. Our local guide was telling us that he moved from a 400sqft apt in the old city into a 1000 sqft apt in the new city. The old city is now under 100' of water.
The three lesser gorges were Ll beautiful. The water was very clean and green, Nike the Yangtze which is brown and trashy. We passed under several bridges, so mnay on the trip, I have lost count. I have to wonder how they will maintain them in years to come. One of the bridges today was a superhighway to connect Wuhan and Chongqing. Our last stop on the river will be Chongqing in three days, with a population of 32+ million.
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