Yangtze Town People On Quay As Yangtze River Cruise Boat Docks For Night.

A Luxury Yangtze River cruise boat, a sunny day, and the anticipation of a journey through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River to get to Wuhan. What else could anyone ask for during a tour of the main attractions of China? Soon after leaving Chongqing there were photos to take of the Yangtze embankment or of other boats of different types, moving with the Yangtze River currents downriver. It was truly puzzling how people living in small farmhouses built on the steep embankments of the Yangtze were able to exist, for the only access to the houses appeared to be from the river itself. Some of the banks were terraced for the cultivation of vegetables, but there was no evidence of other means of earning a living in the vicinity. At one point, about 10 people, in a small boat moving down river, had two oarsmen standing at the prow using their long-handled oars to steer the shallow boat through the turbulent eddies. It is assumed that these people were accustomed to such journeys and were aware of the risks. The raging waters of the Yangtze are not very tolerant to people who fall into the river, as we would see during a later part of our cruise. The members of the tour group felt much safer on their cruise boat, perhaps because they were not familiar with living near such a raging river.