More pictures from the harddrive that I lost but was lucky plenty to receive got recovered (at the cost of $1000). Excerpts from Wikipedia most the three Gorges Dam:
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River located in Yichang, Hubei province, China. The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station in price of installed capacity (22,500 MW) but is minute to Itaipu Dam with regard to the generation of electricity annually.[3] It was completed together with fully functional every bit of July 4, 2012, the dam trunk was completed inwards 2006. As good every bit producing electricity, the dam is intended to increment the Yangtze River's transportation capacity together with bring down the potential for floods downstream past times providing overflowing storage space. The Chinese authorities regards the projection every bit a historic engineering, social together with economical success,[9] with the pattern of state-of-the-art large turbines,[10] and a motion toward limiting greenhouse gas emissions.[11] However, the dam flooded archaeological and cultural sites together with displaced some 1.3 million people, together with is causing meaning ecological changes, including an increased risk of landslides.[12] The dam has been a controversial topic both domestically together with abroad.[13]
on that double-decker from the terminal photograph inwards the terminal post. chinese construction.
the expert earth.
nosotros had to become through this safety banking concern check to larn onto the facility. On the double-decker they told us no knives together with other materials that i didn't empathize together with people started pulling out all this materials from their somebody to go out on the bus.
it's pretty immense. Oh together with did i add together pretty ugly?
nosotros would afterward cross that dyad dorsum at that topographic point on soundless some other double-decker ride together with run into an import sports auto that was crashed around the bend. Those featherbrained Chinese together with their novel money.
if you're into this sort of affair you lot tin run into the macro setup of it all. Looks similar the hydroelectric dam component subdivision upwardly at that topographic point together with the cargo send locks on the bottom.
genuinely i'm distressing that our tour grouping didn't brand us habiliment matching hats. I would last rockin' it from fourth dimension to fourth dimension together with rockin' hearts.
therefore happy. i would last also if i was wearing such a beautiful lid together with my sunday best whilst strolling amongst my parasol together with touring the grounds of my nation's grandiose waterworks projection together with surrounding gardens
is this what happens when the chain of bootlegging past times non english speakers gets also long together with 1 fiddling spelling mistake gets bootlegged ontop of a previous spelling mistake together with you lot become from bootlegging "Louis Vuitton" to making bags that tell "Louie Catton"?
that mystery tea i bought
the dam component subdivision that nosotros had to accept some other double-decker to larn to.
this dude successfully prevented me from getting a photograph of their awesome photograph service....for now
but i got it afterward anyway. dude had expert correct to non desire photos taken of their amazing novelty photograph operation. because i mightiness desire to steal their engineering for making people expect similar they genuinely are at that topographic point inwards forepart of the dam amongst real realistic lighting together with a classy looking column. He also probs didn't desire me to photograph the awesome archival character of their authentic archival durabrite Epson inks that don't fade for upwardly to 75 years (and that definitly wouldn't plow green). this photograph booth is similar 10 feet from the actual location of the photo!!! why don't they only accept a existent photograph instead of using their advanced engineering to superimpose people onto the scene similar they were there, when they genuinely were there! F U dude. I fifty-fifty said that also him. I know, I am a badass proverb insulting things to people inwards english that don't speak english together with probs don't know i'm insulting them.
There goes ships total of your Dre Beats headphones, Blackberries, Nikes, together with Disney products. I promise you're happy
this girl/woman on the double-decker was p!ssed the whole day. When nosotros went to places, she stayed on the bus. I'm guessing since it was balls hot exterior it eventually got super gorilla balls hot on the double-decker therefore she probs spent most of the solar daytime looking p!ssed together with smoking lots of cigarettes somewhere inwards the vicinity of the bus. she sat across from me on the dorsum of the bus. who or what together with why was she therefore peeved?
the biggest dump i've e'er seen. Interpret that how you lot desire amongst everything that's happening inwards this photo.
yes! i honey when i capture these beauties. this guy afterward would afterward walk upwardly to me together with tell "how much"? inwards chinese. I was similar huh? he was talking most my camera. I told him together with he turned around to his friend together with was similar run into that's a expert photographic idiot box camera but I desire the novel 1 (the rank III). That's how things piece of occupation inwards China. if i was chinese i would know correct away when he walked upwardly to me together with said "how much" what he was talking most together with wouldn't think it was rude or anything. You know, it's sort of refreshing when i'm inwards china because you lot tin dispense amongst all pleasantries together with only larn downwards to what you lot desire to know, or want, or desire to go. and you lot tin only sh!t correct at that topographic point if you lot wanted to. Also inwards the background I tin run into this youngish adult woman together with her woman bring upwardly who had the cabin across from me on the boat. Later on they saw me together with were calling me "shuai ge", which agency hottie or handsome guy. hahahaha. i swear its the pilus you lot guys, cuz if you've seen my human face upwardly its def non that....
to a greater extent than beautes. and for people that think i'm beingness racist or also hateful inwards this post, i would create together with tell the same if i was on an organized tour inwards america, because i'm certain at that topographic point would last tons of beautes on that tour too.
these lotus filled cake things were sweetballs.
to a greater extent than on the discipline of Chinese people disposing of the pleasantries, if they detect something curious, they volition walk correct upwardly to it (closer than what americans would think was their bubble) together with stare until they are uninterested. Which was the illustration amongst this guy together with every somebody on our tour double-decker together with all the others.
F U dude, I wishing a woman bring upwardly lover would.
I had already eaten therefore many fiddling things along the way that past times the fourth dimension i got to this delicious looking gauntlet of nutrient i couldn't swallow whatsoever more.
I was upwardly at that topographic point past times the locks taking a photograph of this dyad remember?
I'm sorry that you lot receive got to run into this but you lot don't believe me most the disgusting woman's human foot styles that be inwards mainland People's Republic of China (i've only totally disregarded the men's shoes cuz that's only also lost of a crusade to fifty-fifty mention). say what you lot volition most the shoes, but hither are the ubiquitous semi flesh colored hosiery calf socks (flesh colored if you lot were xc together with most to popular off together with or genuinely dirty). oh sh!t every bit i was writing this i inspected farther together with noticed that they are stirrups!!! (like 80's aerobics tights at the bottom where your heel together with toes are sticking out for those that don't know stirrups). semi flesh colored hosiery stirrup calf socks! oh homo they go along inventing the bike of grossness! amazeballs. Ok therefore apart from my badmouthing this together with that it was an ok minute one-half of a day. For those that create this, if you lot receive got the selection to, you lot tin skip the three gorges dam unless you lot are genuinely into this sort of stuff. It's a lot of concrete together with tourist trap materials together with a waste materials of one-half a solar daytime inwards my opinion. Chances are your tour volition accept you lot here, specially cuz they larn a kickback or something, or some organisation that i can't fifty-fifty comprehend. So overall the Yangtze river cruise was awesome. I travelled solo together with it was a rewarding experience. I recommend this cruise if you lot are spending a to a greater extent than than normal amount of fourth dimension inwards china together with receive got done beijing, shanghai, hong kong, together with all the bigger attractions. Well instantly its fourth dimension to accept some other double-decker to Yichang where i volition together with therefore accept the most awesome double-decker ride of my life to Wuhan. See you lot on the double-decker inwards the adjacent post!