Advantages: Unique, fascinating, occasionally beautiful Disadvantages: Disappearing as you read this
In the grey murk of a March morning, the city of Chongqing viewed from the riverbed is not a pretty sight. Even its inhabitants do not pretend Chongqing is a pretty sight. Rather, they take a perverse pride in its grimness, in common with the denizens of grim cities everywhere.
Standing on the upper deck of the cruiseship Victoria 1, my wife and I watch the last passengers arrive. This early in the year the river is low. Perhaps fifty metres of ...
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Advantages: Knowledge Culture Adventure Disadvantages: Fog
...Jules Verne tourists climbed off the coach that had taken them from the city of Shanghai to the River Port of Zhenjang on the Yangtze to board their cruise ship the MV Victoria Rose and their eight night journey upstream along the Yangtze River in China ending at the river city of Chongqing. We shouldn't have been that weary. Six intriguing days and nights spent in Beijing and finally Shanghai had been fascinating. Our minds were full of the exciting ...
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Advantages: Relaxing, beautiful and cheap Disadvantages: Getting up at 5am every day
...English in Chongqing, China. At the beginning of this month, the Chinese had a week’s holiday for National Day – the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (this year is the 55th anniversary). I spent most of my National Day holiday on the Yangtze River. Some fellow British teachers came to Chongqing from around the country and on Sunday evening ten of us boarded a big boat which would take us down the river to the town of Yichang, ...
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