Yangtze floden

11.04.06

We sailed at 7.00. The weather unfortunately was a little hazy, but a fancy trip and hrs. about 9.30  added we to country, and were in buses driven up to the dam-building. That is good enough much. There are used in all 24 millions of m2. concrete and the total price is figured out with becoming about 2 billions of US$. When we came back on the boat we sailed against the floodgate, and into first lock chamber at 12.30 together with 8 other ships. The floodgate consists of five chambers in succession, but the fifth chamber isn't yet used. That is first gone in use when the water level is completely up in 175 m height. There are missing still about 35 m. We passed through the first and largest of The Tree Gorges, an incredibly beautiful nature experience, with almost vertical rocks, green mountainsides and an incredibly beautiful water that twists now and then the cutters. The day's navigation ended at 20. the time, while we ate evening's food called the Captain's buffet, with speech of welcome of the captain, we stayed overnight in Ba Dong.

 Video- cut the trip up through the floodgate

12.04.06

Rain from the the early morning and hazy, but not as much as yesterday. There is today an excursion in small boats to Shennong Stream, a tributary not far from where we have stayed overnight, a good deal of us off-chooses this trip because of the weather. You that participated , report that that was a large experience. Up at the river are varied to small rowing boats, and when the water level becomes too low, silences' that not more, but the boats are drawn off men that go in the cold water from a river. After this excursion we were in a mess further up Yangtze the river through the two last Gorgeses, not so large as the first, but just as beautiful. Late in the afternoon there was teaching in the difficult art of building Chinese porter. The navigation continued to at 4 the time in the morning where it was docked together with Feng Du.

13.04.06

Wake up to a beautiful morning. the breakfast the trip to the Ghost-temple checks. A hard trip. It was told that there is about 400 steps up. A beautiful temple, with many myths and horror stories, but there was a beautiful view up from there. The trip up Yangtze is continued after noon, and it was invited to a trip at the bridge, where there was told about the ship, and everything its's modern equipment. The ship is built in 1991. When one looks at the equipment it looks like it is over 50 years since that is mounted, but it sails then every day. The navigation continues past many new towns that are built higher up of the mountain before the water comes. There are more places arranged shipbuilding yards directly on the beach. Certain places we could see that that was a fight in the course of time about becoming done before the water ladders. There were some places built dams in order to hold the water on distance. There was entertainment in Dans Hall after the evening-food with appearance of some of the crew members as well as some talent show with the passengers. During the night we reach forward to Chong Qing ( are pronounced ”tjong ting” )

Video-clips with Nai-Lis' song about the river Yangtze as well as impressions from the trip