Yangtze River Three Gorges Dam and Xiling Gorge

P001 Day 3 of our tour after visiting Wuhan and Jingzhou... a look at the Taohuacun Pier (Peach Flower Village Port) 桃花村碼頭... we

P002 Yichang 宜昌市, known in ancient times as Yiling 夷陵, locals called it a bright pearl shining on the Yangtze River... with abundant water resources, lauded as the...

P003 ... an important river port with great natural advantages in river transport opened to foreign trade since 1876, Yangtze River, the principal navigable waterway...

P006 Yangtze River, aka Yangzi or in Chinese Cháng Jiāng (Long River) 長江/揚子江, originates from Jianggendiru Glacier 姜根迪如冰川 southwest to the Geladandong Peak 各拉丹東峰,...

P007 ... the third longest river in the world after the 4160 miles long River Nile in Africa and the South America 4049 miles Amazon, upper reaches of the Yangtze...

P008 ... upper stream of the middle reaches of Yangtze between Yibin 宜賓 in Sichuan and Yichang in Hubei with many shoals and rapids where the famous Three Gorges...

P009 ... Yangtze river basin, stretching from a land of remote mountains and arid plains, winding its way through canyon gorges to fertile regions of connecting...

P011 ... 49 tributaries merging into Yangzi forming great water source, water network covering over 695,000 square miles river basin accounting for 18.8% of the...

P012 Three Gorges on Yangtze River 長江三峽 - Qutang Gorge 瞿塘峽, Wu Gorge 巫峽 and Xiling Gorge 西陵峽, the most scenic section of the navigable reaches of Yangtze forming a...

P014 Xiling Gorge 西陵峽, the longest of the three gorges zigzagging about 49 miles starting from Xiangxi (Fragrant Stream) of Zigui County 秭歸縣香溪 upstream in the west,...

P015 ... historically dubbed as

P017 ... spectacular scenery along the Xiling Gorge even though well known in the past for its danger with numerous reefs and odd-shaped stones existing in rapid...

P020 ... a rapid bending turn coming up... perilous Xiling Gorge often stands shrouded in mists, known for its lofty and spectacular mountains on both banks, and in...

P021 ... here comes the bottleneck stretch of the Xiling Gorge Yangtze River...

P023 Xiling Gorge, consisting of dangerous shoals and a series of smaller gorges, 兵書寶劍峽 Military Books and Precious Sword Gorge, 牛肝馬肺峽 Ox Liver and Horse Lung Gorge...

P024 ... former dangerous shoals (

P025 ... the sheer steep limestone rock slopes and cliffs along the Three Gorges rose some 1300-2000 feet above the river prior to the completion of the Gezhouba and...

P026 ... ever since the completion of the Gezhouba Water Control Project (started in 1970 and finished in 1988), water level rose eliminating the notorious shoals...