Monday, March 16, 2009

Day 11,12,13 - Things you will never see in singapore

Day 11 was the day we set off for a long journey to the 3 gorges dam. Wasn't very excited about the trip because I didn’t know what is so special about a dam. But the journey there was the longest trip that I ever had in my life! I sat till my butt hurts! With limited leg space, i can hardly move through the whole journey and OMG it’s a 4 hours ride to our first destination! But the scenery passes were amazing, there were no high rise building or bust streets; there were just small houses with a vast area of plantation around them which all seems so calm and peaceful.But it such a pity that i dont have any pictures of them. 

First destination was the 3gorges dam; we were brought to a spot for tourist like us to enjoy an amazing view of the whole dam. Time to let the pictures do the talking:






First thing that came into my when I first saw the dam was WOW!  This is something that you will never be able to see in Singapore! After that we had to take the bus to the cruise that will bring us through the dam itself. (OH NO! not the bus again!)

The cruise that we were board was a local 4 stars cruise called “silver moon”. I thought to myself, “Finally we can enjoy a comfortable time in this 4 stars cruise” but how was I to know that their 4 star cruise made me want to go back to the hostel! There is no heater in the whole cruise, a room for 2 with hardly any walking space for 1, a toilet that I can hardly stand straight in! For the first day in the cruise, some of the rooms don’t even have water in their toilet! But not everything in the room was bad, I love the bed! It is so soft it makes it hard to wake up in the morning.

The following morning, breakfast was at 7.30am, we bored a smaller to that will bring us to our next destination where we were going to board a even smaller boat that could take less than 20 people . This was to allow us to experience how people in the past used to travel pass the valley. We were rowed through the valley allowing us to have a better view of the scenery and when we reached a part where it was too shallow for us to be rowed through this become our new motors that will bring us through it :

On the way back to our cruise, the tour guide that was with us on the boat was kind enough to sing us the songs that people in the past used to, if only you could be there to hear it yourself; it was really beautiful.



After that we headed to our last stop of the day. We had to climb approximately 200 plus step before reaching the main door and it was so dark that this was the only picture i could take.


by the time we got back to the cruise it was already 9 plus , which is the lastest dinner i had ever had.
the following morning we had to get up really early to board the bus back to Wuhan which is another 4 hours plus of butt torturing.