Wednesday, October 3rd - Fengjie to Zigui


Ferry on the Yangzi

 


Travelling down the Yangzi midstream

 


An industrial town on the North bank

 


Queuing for the ferry to cross the river

 


The motorised sampan at Wushan

 


Delivering fresh food

 


Aaron translates the guide's utterances

 


A market for Chinese tourists

 


Chinese characters carved into the gorge side

 


A sampan goes passed in the Lesser Gorges

 


A Lesser Gorge

 


Close up of rocks in the Lesser Gorges

 


Waiting for the traffic lights to change so that we have
the right of way upstream

 


Stranded on a shale beach.
Look how green the water is.

 


Halfway up you can see the holes of the 450 kilometre plank walk

 


Wild monkeys in the Lesser Gorges.
They're the black objects at the top of the rock to the right. 

 


Leaving the Lesser Gorges

 


About to enter the Wu gorge

 


The new buildings are above the level of the water.
The older buildings at the water's edge will be flooded 
 

There were many notice boards marking the level of the water

 


A river guard's house with direction flags

 


A Russian hydrofoil

 


The Goddess Peak - it's the small one to the right of the 3 larger ones

 


A peak with a name that requires lots of imagination

 


Typical riverside village soon to be inundated

 


A colourful dragon cruise boat

 


Paintings in the shop at Zigui

 


Traditional dancers at Zigui