Woke up from our sleep in the midnight and went up to the top level again.
This time we are passing the Three Gorges Dam's Five Stage ship lock. Its like a "staircase" which will bring us down to a lower water level. In order to lower the ship over 100 meters, the water pressure is enormous. There is no gate which can withstand such pressure, hence designers designed five locks, instead of one.
Entering the 1st watertight compartment
Gate Closed. It is HUGE!
Exiting from the 1st compartment. Notice the wet part of the wall? The water level decreased in order to send us to the 2nd compartment.
1st to 2nd compartment takes around 40 mins. So from the 1st to the 5th compartment takes around 4 hours. After watching the process from the 1st to the 2nd, some of us went back to sleep while some stayed on.
My view out of my room's window. We're in the process of going to the 3rd compartment.
In the morning, 6am breakfast. After that we leave the cruise and made our way to the bus. Slept like a log during the 6 hours back to our hostel. We reached hostel at around 2pm.
HOME SWEET HOME!
It feels good to be back
We sent our dirty clothes to the laundry shop for the 1st time for $1 (Wash and Spin Dry), lunched, rested, dinner and started blogging
Rained
The night is realli freezing cold. According to the weather forecast online its 17 deg. There is no need to on the airconditioner. Just open the door and window will do.
Reflection:
With the help of modern technology, many impossibles has became possible. One of the exmaple will be the 3 Gorges Dam's Five Stage Ship lock which we happen to experience today. This teaches us to never stop learning and using our brains to think out of the box. For this 3 gorges trip the thing that amzazed me the most is the Suspended coffin and next is then then the huge Ship locks.
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