Welcome to The Land of the Long White Cloud. Good flight over with a great view of the Alps with their last light dusting of snow. Beautiful blue sky as we come in to land in Christchurch.
Welcome to The Land of the Long White Cloud. Good flight over with a great view of the Alps with their last light dusting of snow. Beautiful blue sky as we come in to land in Christchurch.
Time to head home. A quick tour of Chongquing (pop approx 34 million) then off to the airport for the first leg of our journey home. A 2hr layover at Guangzhou then 9hrs home.
Beautiful dinner tonight with the captain.
This morning we disembark and fight our way through the myriad of stalls and vendors desperate to sell their goods. Items with an initial price of 160 yuan often end up at bargain prices such as 20-30Read more
This morning we transferred to another boat to cruise up the first of the Three Gorges. Hard to believe that so many villages and farmers were displaced when the Gorges were flooded during the damRead more
Woke up this morning to find another boat tied up alongside - strange to be able to look into other cabin windows! After breakfast we took a tour up to the Xiling Gorge Dam project. Very impressive.Read more
A welcome sleep in this morning. Pick up at 11am for our drive to the airport for a 2pm flight to Wuhan. Tour guide Cindy met us at the airport, then began a 5hr drive to Yichang then Xiling Gorge toRead more
Early start today as we make our way to Shanghai. A visit to the Lotus Gardens and a boat trip on the Great Lake was our first stop. Very humid today. Next, we visit a green tea plantation for someRead more