Three couples from our apartment building went on a Yangtze River cruise in May. We flew to Chongqing to start the cruise which ended 3 days later at Three Rivers Gorge Dam.
Here we are arriving at Chongqing airport. Chongqing (also once known as ChungKing) is the largest municipality in China with over 31MM people.
Chongqing is a very hilly city in a very warm climate near Sichuan Province. We did a little sightseeing and ate at a hotpot restaurant before boarding our cruise ship.
Below we are arriving at Fengdu (ghost) City. The river cruise ship we traveled on is in the background.
The T-shirt I am wearing was a gift of an expat who has lived here for 13 years. It always gets laughs from the locals - bei ren kan pu dong - "white men don't understand" (westerns can't read this).
Very strange demonic statues along the walk up the hill to a temple.
This small guy has a great business. He rolls this huge iron object around a vertical pole and then has to lift it up on top of the pole Everyone is challenged to do it and of course no one can. He has a great technique that he has perfected. On our way back to the ship he caught up with BF to see if she would exchange all of his Dollars for Yuan. That is how weak the US Dollar is :(
He did not like me too much. He thought I was a foreign devil (large westerner with sun glasses). He was glad to see me go.
Sights of the river and gorge. The river has been flooded to 152M and will be complete when it reaches 175M in the near future.
The very controversial Three Gorges Dam, in Hubei Province, largest in the world.
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