Day 12 - 2nd day in 3 gorge (continue from day 1~)

September 28 , 2010 continuing from day1 in cruise. I didn't manage to sleep early even though its on cruise. We are all waiting for the second Lock which says the be one of the biggest lock passing through the 3 gorges. So after the first lock, we all went back to room to play cards , watch tv etc . Once there's announcement, we all will rush out from the room to the deck of the cruise to view the locks. Took quite alot of pictures since we got nothing to do, but cant upload all in blog because it will flood the blog with alot of pictures. AHAHA! okay lets take a look on my day 2 journey ...

Passing 2nd Lock, at around 1am?

Another cruise passing the locks too, But their cruise is much better than us!

After this we all went to nap and woke up early in the morning to proceed to another tourist attraction in 3 gorges . Woke up at around 7am to take breakfast and then went back to sleep until 10am before alighting the cruise to take a small boat to tour around the 神女溪. Here are some of the pictures i took.

-Mountains-

Alight the Ship to take small boats to 神女溪
Their tour boat :p

The tourguide

Group Photo of my Group again!

The gorge!

Our Lunch!

After lunch , we proceed to another tourist attraction called 白帝城 which its a temple preserve long ago. Before reaching the temple ,we need to climb 400steps up to the temple. Its VERY tiring!! But i manage to walk up in the end! Here are some of the pics!

白帝城

This picture below is a place where Liu bei and other generals are having their meeting

Self-reflection :

Today we had tour quite a few tourist attraction. First is the 神女溪followed by the 白帝城. Firstly for touring the 神女溪 in the gorge, it reminded me of the times when i was in taiwan touring the tarako gorge. It brings me back to the days where i also enjoyed alot with my secondary buddies and never forget what my Geography teacher told me about the formation of the gorge. As i think of it, it's rather fortunate for me to encounter such experience again. Next tourist attaction on 白帝城 is also another experience for me where i seems to be teleported back to the past where the surroundings were exactly what Tv shows. Also from there, we can view beautiful scenery at the top of the 白帝城. Thats all for today, Good bye!

Day 11 - 3 gorge tour , HERE I COME !

September 24 , 2010 is the first day of our trip to 3 gorges. Feeling very excited because its my 1st time taking cruise. Packed everything and get ready to set off our journey to the 3 gorges. The total journey from our hostel to the 3 gorges was 5 hrs. Alright hop in and lets go!

We are all ready to setoff!

A toilet break after 2hours bus ride in the bus
Finally reach Yi chang


We went to take our dinner at this 三味酒楼 before boarding the cruise
This is the food we eat. As usual i eat everything :p

Entry to the cruise

Group E photo

Our cruise, the 2nd ferry behind

After boarding the cruise , we put our belongings and went up to the deck of the cruise to view the whole scenery. On top of that, everyone is waiting the cruise to pass the Locks. I took some of these pictures so enjoy!

Ferry Approaching the Locks!

Going into the lock

In the lock

Self-reflection :

Today is the touring of the 3 gorges in 宜昌. I feel very excited because stated above in my blog that it's my first time taking a cruise. Also i heard from alot of people that 3 gorges had alot of beautiful sceneries for people to take photo. In singapore i doubt we have a gorge. As for passing the locks, i find that its a new experience for me and everyone. I did study the whole process of passing the locks during Maritime Management but personally expericing this whole process is totally another feeling. Its a new experiece where not everyone got the chance to have it unless they come to 3 gorges or panama /suez canal.Well i will keep on update for these few days throughout the whole journey. Hopefully i am able get some pictures for you guys. Thats all for today...

Day 10 - Off Day, Filled with activities !

September 23, 2010 OFF DAY for us to do project but i finished it with my group members yesterday. Woot so its a FREE and EASY day for me , no need alarm to wake me UP Cheeerssss !!! Finally had a nice long sleep without waking up early in the morning at 8++am. Thats torturing, waking up early and sleeping late everynight because of blogging and others stuffs. well lets not talk about that, Let me share with you guys what i do today.

SLACK all the way in the morning till lunch where i went to had my lunch with my friends in 快乐厨房. Ordered a few dishes ... most of the food we ate were roughly the same so no point posting the pictures again : p
More exciting parts comes after lunch when i am so bored till i went out myself to explore more stuffs alone. I walk all the way from hostel to near end of 建设二路.
this time round there's no one tag along with me. Seems like a solo tour in china. Well i took quite a few pictures which i find it interesting and hardly get to see them in singapore. ENJOY

Take a look at this bus carfully, its Parking at the pathway!!



Stall directly under their house, this might be common in singapore but condition wise is different

Meat stall- Very different from singapore. They are not sold in market but in a individual stall while in singapore you see them in market

Finally i saw something like HDB in Wuhan

I guess this is a condo ?

My soya bean drink. Pure and fresh!

Thats what i tour near around my campus when i was bored. Total total time taken is around an hour. After that i went back to hostel to meet up with yuhaw and hanhui and preparing to set of to another advanture to WALMART. Meet up with zhen zhao and other local students to had our dinner with them in a restuarant call 三十三间堂. The food are all the local food in wuhan which are full of chilli and chilli oil. But it suits my taste because i eat everything! Well checkout with those photo taken....

三十三间堂 tissue box :p

Surroundings of the restuarant

Look very high class right? :P

Here are some of the dishes we orderd. Sorry can't remember all the names

This is my favourite!

山药 ( hope i type it correctly) a type of chinese herbal?

Potato with orange sauce !

Spicy Mix organ

Meatball Soup

The full main course

We Cleared it!

After finished our dinner, we went to walmart to have a walk and i found some interesting stuffs inside there. Take a look at this picture below. Prawns are all cooked and poured inside this chiller. This is my first time to see the prawns being poured inside instead of being kept in packets or in ice. Same as the beef below~

After Walmart-ing we went back to the hostel because it's already quite late. But thats not the end of the day. We went to to light up the 许愿灯 at a open space near our hostel. Writing all our wishes on the lanturn and then we release it into the sky. Fun and new experience for me~ well end of today, bye guys

Releasing of Lanturn!

Self-reflection :

Different experience different learning. Well today best experience for me was the releasing of the lanturn because in Singapore we don't get a chance to do so. We will be FINED if we do that ... Sigh Well its nice for release that lanturn up to the sky. Very beautiful as it fly up to the sky, it seems like a small balloon flying in the sky. I guess releasing lanturn in china is very common because this should be one of their traditions. Just that in singapore because of safety purposes, it Banned people from releasing it. Well eye opener for me.. thats all for today... bye !