Day 19- THREE GORGES DAY 2

6am breakfast.

After breakfast we got off the cruise and went to visit Bai Di Cheng

ticket

We got to climb this steps

but no worries, there are escalators here!!

Guan Yin Gong

The nice scenery behind.

There are 400 steps to climb to the Bai Di Cheng

Tired?

Bai Di Cheng is an old city with rich historic story and mysterious legend.


In there, it's like a museum where we can see some display of the past weapons and historical items.

We saw a suspended coffin in there. The coffin is placed at a very high place where people with no special equipment cannot reach.

Flag of the Liu Bei's ( A general, warlord, and later the founding emperor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms era of China) Army.

After exploring the place..we got to go back to the entrance to catch the bus back to our cruise.

Down down down the steps

Check out the river behind us.

MDE @ Bai Di Cheng

At the Habour theres a Yellow Willow Wood comb Manufacturing Shop

There are workers making the comb there from scratch

Back to the cruise for our lunch! And some of them realise rice in China is always not filling.

With MrLoh on the top level of our Golden Sun Cruise.

After which we transfer to another smaller cruise which will bring us to the place in the picture below:

*censored* this is a picture of them during the past when this place has not become a tourist attraction. Now they are all covered.

As this cruise is smaller than ours, the 3 level have will have to limit the number of people up there in order to balance the weight. So some of us cant go up to get the best view.

After lingering downstairs at the 2nd level, we went to the front.

The wind was really strong and cold.

After a while we finally reunited and started our siteseeing

the stools up there are cool

_____________________________

On the way, we saw a lot of interesting spots with the help of the tour guide.

Here are some of them:

can you see the small square at the top of the mountain? It is actually the Qiu Zi Guan Yin Miao where people with no child would go there and pray.

Swallow Cave. Bird Nest in there!

See someone lying down reading a book?

See a mice?

See a beautiful lady?

See a footprint?

Suspended Coffin (i) it is hanging on two pieces of wood

Suspended Coffin (ii)

Suspended Coffin (iii)
Can you spot them all?? We're all amazed by it especially the suspended coffins!According to the tour guide it is still a mystery how they are placed on the cliffs. ____________________________

Some didnt bother about the scenery.

The pink, yellow stuffs on the carrier is actually trucks.


Edy, CK & meThe background looks so photoshopped in


Compare the cruise to the mountains. We're really small.

Finally we reached our destination where we go onto Sampans which can load 14 of us each

Boarding the sampans

Its a new experience for all of us

When we reach the part of the course where it is shallow the boat trackers have to get down and start pulling the boat. These guys work since young and retire only at 60 years old. They are all muscular and skilled.

See them pulling the boat with their strength with all of us on it makes me feel so guilty.

After which we got back to the small cruise and back to our Golden Sun cruise.

Reflections:

Seeing the suspended coffins makes me feel really really amazed. According to information online, there are different ways to build the coffins and in the ancient times only high ranking people will get this type of special burial customs for the local Ba people to bury their respected ones. The higher the coffin is placed the higher ranking the dead is. BUT how did they even manage to place the coffin up at such places without modern technology? This really made me ponder for a long long while. I guess this must be the most amazing historic item I've ever seen in China. Not in a museum but at its original location.