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Due to it's location near dam and gorges, Yichang is a popular tourist destination, which is clearly demonstrated by the sheer number of travel agencies you'll find in the city's streets. Of course arranging your trip on the spot in one at of these agencies is a lot cheaper then booking things weeks ahead, especially if you feel like bargaining down a bit
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From the moment this trip was booked it was expected to be the highlight of our holiday as before very long the Three Gorges Project will be completed.
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Of all the factors that have worked together to fashion China into a huge land of mystery and intrigue, the tremendous influence of the Yangtze River upon the people and their culture is beyond dispute.
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Wuxi deep in the wild mountains north of the Yangtze on the Daning River, is home to the Lesser Three Gorges and the Lesser, Lesser Three Gorges.
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Leaving Baidi, cast in blush of dawn cloud
The day's passage to Jiangling a thousand miles
Monkeys cry incessantly from the river shores
This swift boat, already beyond these ten thousand mountains.
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Building a dam on any river is usually a significant engineering feat but building a dam on the third largest river in the world is a massive undertaking. Work first began on the Three Gorges Project back in December 1970 with the first of two dams completed in 1988.
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The hilly city of Chong Qing (also known as 'Chung-king' in pre-Pinyin China), is only a four hour eastward bus ride along the Cheng Yu Expressway, from my current local residence in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province in south west China.
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In a nutshell, from Xi'an [Shee-ahn], where I teach conversational English, the only kinda English I know, to university kids,
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