13th July 2008

• Up earlyish, Only the 3 lads at brekkie.
• Off boat. Bust to the 3 gorges Dam
• Misty. Bit dull. Model. Various sculptures including a huge book.
• Went closer to Dam
• Cool celebratory garden, big diggers and tunnel. Scuptures and best view of the dam.
• Then drove to airport via Yichang for lunch which had basically been smashed with a mallet then drowned in 2000 chillis.
• Chilled in airport. Quick flight, then bus to very nice shanghai hotel.
• Walked down the main strip. Pretty. Had a cheeky pizza in pizza hut!
• Internet was very stupid as you need your passport and many sites like facebook were blocked.
• Shanghai is awesome though, pretty lights everywhere
  

12 July 2008

• Mega Early Up
• Fought Chinese for breakfast. Very nice Dumplings
• Transfer to smaller boat, along a gorge
• Extremely misty but very pretty gorges
• Transferred to a tiny boat just for us + Lauren's group, rowed by some dudes, against stream
• At a rough part they dragged us by rope, but not before passing round firewater and loads of chinese peeps photographing us.
• After short drag, they turned us around and we zoomed back down stream, our western weight helping us along.
• Our local guide sung a few traditional songs to us.
• Back track to big boat. Sleep in the arvo
• Dinner
• David taught us Marjong. Me and Lydia on 1 team, and were awesome.
• Retired to bar area as cooler
• Watched a performance of dance
• Beer. David did Karaoke, and a random lady went up halfway through and helped him. He is the ladies man indeed. Awesome.
• Some weird musical chair game with Jackie Chan (or at least Lauren's group's guide)
• Bit of beer and dancing. Suddenly all the Chinese vanished.
• Sleep.