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| August 14, 2001 - Suzhou and the Yangtze River |
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| A doorway from the Wangshi Yuan, the Garden of the Master of the Nets, the smallest but most perfectly-designed garden in Suzhou. |
| Some of the classical gardens of Suzhou,and then scenes from our three-day boat trip through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze, surely the most over-rated tourist attraction in all of China |
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| The pond around which much of the Wangshi Yuan is built. |
| The exaggerated upswept eaves of this little pavilion in the Wangshi Yuan are typical of Song Dynasty buildings and are considered to represent the apex of Chinese architecture. |
| Graydon tucking into a spicy Sichuan hotpot meal in Yichang, the starting point of our boat trip on the Yangtze. |
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| The boat in which we were incarcerated for three long days from Yichang upstream to Chongqing. (We should have taken the hydrofoil!!) |
| The Sandouping Dam, the largest hydroelectric project in the world. When completed, in 2008, it will flood the Three Gorges to a depth of 180 metres and displace over a million people. Good thing they picked such an earthquake-prone area for the dam! |
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| Oct. 20-Nov.11: Lhasa-Kathmandu Oct.10 -20: Lhasa-tude Sept.5-Oct. 9: The ride to Lhasa July 20-Sept.4: Riding the Capitalist Rooster June 29-July 19: SW China June 28: Laos June 20: Northeast Thailand |
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