Yangtze River Cruise

Packages of Yangtze River Cruise tour

Yangtze River Cruise Tour Day 1
Arrival / Yangtze River Cruise
Later today you will be transferred to Yangtze River Cruise and get on board on Victoria Cruise Ship. Our cruise begin to leave Yangtze River Cruise at 20:00.  We are going down the mighty Yangtze, third longest river in the world and the lifeblood of this vast country.

Yangtze River Cruise Tour Day 2 (B, L,D)
Yangtze River Cruise
Shore excursion to Shibaozhai.

We cruise through rolling hills, passing small towns, villages and an array of river transport. Stop at the Abode of Ghosts at Fengdu, and visit its garish temple. The old town of Fengdu has disappeared under water with the first flooding stage of the 3 Gorges Dam project.

Yangtze River Cruise Tour Day 3 (B, L, D)
Yangtze River Cruise
Shore excursion to Lesser Three Gorges.

At the town of Fengjie, see impressive bird’s-eye views of the first of the gorges, Qutang Xia. Be on deck as we sail through the might of the remaining two gorges, Wu Xia and Xiling Xia, and enjoy a small boat ride up into Lesser Three Gorges.

Yangtze River Cruise Tour Day 4 (B, L, D)
Yichang / Wuhan /Shanghai
Shore excursion to Three Gorges Dam site. Witness the enormity and scale of the Three Gorges Dam and ship lock.

Arrives in Yichang at 1300, head to Yichang or Wuhan airport to fly to our next destination, Shanghai.

Introduction of Yangtze River

We Chinese call the Yangtze River, Chang-jiang, which means "Long River", or just "Jiang" -- river.  (We called another main river, Yellow River, "He", sounding like "her")

The longest river in China and the third longest river in the world, the 6,300 kilometer Yangtze River starts at the southern foothills of the snow-covered Geladandong Peak of the Tanggula Mountains in southwestern Qinghai Province. It flows past 2 autonomous regions and 6 provinces including Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shanghai City, where it runs into the East China Sea.

The watershed area of the Yangtze River is about 700,000 square miles, approximately 20% of China's total land area, and 25% of its total farming land area. Almost all of the boating traffic in China is on the Yangtze River.

The Nile and Amazon Rivers are larger than the Yangtze, but the Yangtze is special because so many people living on it.

Inhabited by more than 300 million people and boasting more than 2, 700 hectares of cultivated land, the Yangtze River reaches are rich in such agricultural productions as rice, cotton, edible oil, silk, linen, tea and tobacco, of which the rice production makes up 70 percent and the cotton about one-third of the country's total respectively.

The Yangtze River reaches were one of the cradles of the Chinese civilization. Places along both sides of the river are homes to hundreds and thousands of relics and ancient architectures such as mansions, terraces and platforms, pavilions, towers, temples, gardens, stone carvings and forests of steles, which all serve as proofs of the intelligence and wisdom of the ancient Chinese people. Dangerous floods kill people and livestock living near the river.