Day 16

There wasn’t any lesson today as we have to gather at 1pm for our journey to the three gorges. Our journey is a long one, and it took us 4hours plus to reach Yi Chang. We have our dinner at a local restaurant before continue our journey to the port for the boarding of our cruise. We travel to the three gorges dam area through the Shan Xia Zhuan Yong Gong Lu, which was specially created for the transporting of materials and labours to the site of the three gorges dam in the past. Although the road was a bumpy one, using this road allows the shortening of travelling time. On the way, we pass by an area which used to be where those workers of the dam project live. The view here is simply fantastic as two third of YiChang is mountainous terrain. However, after the completion of the project, almost all of them moved out of the area and back to their hometown. We arrived at the port in Zi Gui County at around 8plus. Soon after, we board our cruise ship, Jin Tai Yang. We were told that the original ZiGui town was upstream to the west, but was abandon and submerged under the waters of the reservoir. The condition of our rooms was not as bad as expected though and the mattress that was provided definitely is better then what we have in our hostel.



our room


My reflection

There was just one incident that happened recently that change my whole perception about China. It happens at touristy spots such as Three Gorges Cruise. In our scenario, there are agents who are Chinese that are in charge of allowing passengers to enter the ship. It is extremely obvious that we are travelling in a large group, therefore everybody were thinking that we should be able to pass through the gantry easily. However, those agents chose not to believe that we are eligible passengers for this cruise trip and denied out entry. Worst of all, they did not even bother to investigate or find out whether were we genuine tour groups and simply refuse to let us board the ship and blaming us instead. Hence, our tour guide got into a heavy argument in front of everybody eyes with those Chinese ticketing bouncer, demanding an explanation of the refusal of boarding for us students. This is an extremely rude and unmannered behaviour carried out by these Chinese as they did not even care to settle the matter behind shut doors, instead, they brought the originally small issue out front to the public which makes both parties anger even more. After the whole incident, there was not even a single apology for the delaying of our time. I believe that there is a lot more for them to improve in their customer relation and it really make me proud of the service we have in Singapore.