transportation in china
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Left: Pedestrians mix in with
motorized traffic – and
construction – regardless of the
load.
Below: taxi anyone?
IN THE LOCKSWe spent five days aboard the Princess Jeannie, lower right. We had
company in the locks of the 3 Gorges Dam, above left.
Off to visit
Three Gorges
Dam in
Yinchang –
up some 200
steps. The
cable cars
weren’t
available the
first time we
left the
Princess
Jeannie!
The next time we disembarked, to visit Wanxian, the cars were working.
This is where we saw an open-air market and a museum with one of the
hanging coffins used by the Ba people.
Pretty elegant living space for a couple of barges! Many
vessels had plants – and drying laundry -- on them.
Transportation up Shennong Stream at
the mouth of the Xiling Gorge in
Badong. Trackers poled and pulled us in
peapod boats, named for the shape.
They have a competitive spirit, and
raced one another.
These guys had their work cut out for them! Everyone grumbled about
the attractive, orange vests, but we all wore them.
The marble boat built by Empress Ci Xi in 1893, using funds that were
supposed to build a navy. It sits in Kunming Lake at the foot of
Longevity Hill in the Summer Palace, Beijing.
OK, so I couldn’t resist
the image of a guy on
his motorcycle,
underneath the golden
arches. This is a real
gas-powered
motorcycle; many
people ride electric
scooters.