We took advantage of the Qing Ming (Memorial Day) Holiday to fly to Chongqing, China and board a cruise ship (upper and lower right) to visit the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang. We stopped in Fengdu (upper left) to visit a "Ghost City" (meaning the temple commemorating "hell" where the spirits of the deceased go (according to Buddhism) to be judged after death to determine where they will eventually end up in the next life. After visiting the dam, we traveled by bus to Wuhan, China where we boarded a flight to Qingdao for a bus ride back to Jinan. We had a side trip on a motorized sampan (top and bottom center) piloted by a member (listen to him singing below) of one of the minority groups in China (we are posing in part of his get-up). The Three Gorges Dam (which has caused the water level in the reservoir it formed to rise 180 feet above the original river and displaced many villages and towns) has a series of 5 shiplocks which all boats and ships moving up or down the Yangtze River must pass through (a process which takes approximately four hours). These shiplocks are just a bit shorter than the Panama Canal. The power generated from the turbines in the dam supply between 3 to 5 percent of all power used by the entire country of China. The Yangtze River is the third longest river in the world following the Nile and the Amazon. Fourth longest is the Mississippi.
We took advantage of the Qing Ming (Memorial Day) Holiday to fly to Chongqing, China and board a cruise ship (upper and lower right) to visit the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang. We stopped in Fengdu (upper left) to visit a "Ghost City" (meaning the temple commemorating "hell" where the spirits of the deceased go (according to Buddhism) to be judged after death to determine where they will eventually end up in the next life. After visiting the dam, we traveled by bus to Wuhan, China where we boarded a flight to Qingdao for a bus ride back to Jinan. We had a side trip on a motorized sampan (top and bottom center) piloted by a member (listen to him singing below) of one of the minority groups in China (we are posing in part of his get-up). The Three Gorges Dam (which has caused the water level in the reservoir it formed to rise 180 feet above the original river and displaced many villages and towns) has a series of 5 shiplocks which all boats and ships moving up or down the Yangtze River must pass through (a process which takes approximately four hours). These shiplocks are just a bit shorter than the Panama Canal. The power generated from the turbines in the dam supply between 3 to 5 percent of all power used by the entire country of China. The Yangtze River is the third longest river in the world following the Nile and the Amazon. Fourth longest is the Mississippi. 
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