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| Hiking grade |
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• Grade I |
You prefer walking on a relatively safer and wider path; you value sight-seeing while hiking; you can't be called a fairly steady-footed man and sometimes you feel dizzy when standing high; you haven't much time to do exercise for the tour or you rarely exercises; you lack hiking experience. For a person like you, what is the most important is the combined enjoyment of body, mentality and soul. |
• Grade II |
You prefer walking on uncomplicated path, but you are never fear of passing defiles; you do not mind long-distance traveling along rough roads and simple accomdation; the purpose of your tour is to perfectly combine viewing of natural sceneries with visiting to cultural establishments; you regard body training ahead of departure as a component of the tour; you find it unchallenging to hike 6 hours a day and treking within a height of 1000 meters. |
• Grade III |
You like meeting physical challenges in tour; you may fell physically and phychologically wake because treking is frequent hiking through dangerous passes; ascending or descending, you may find the path quite steep, tilting and somewhite dangerous; you are open to dropping stones. Therefore, steady-footedness and bravery are the prerequisites. The 8-hour-per-day hicking and treking a height over 1000 meters. You are strong and keep in good physical condition, or you have already done specific exercise for the tour. A kind of athletic sports, your tour will be relaxed and pleasurable. |
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| Hiking the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River |
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Topography : Gulch and mountain
Difficulty : Low – Middle
Equipment : Cane, Telescope, Raincoat
First-aid Kit
Hiking the Yangtze Three Gorges is one of the top tour routes in China. Walking through this route, you can see the cloud of the Wu Mountain in the sky and the famous Goddess Peak. The Yangtze River with fleets of modern and man-powered boats sailing are just under your feet. Who can resist the temptation of the fantastic scenery?
With the completion of the second phase of the Three Gorges Project, the pool level of newly –formed reservoir reaches 139 meters above sea level. Some Ancient Plank Roads are inundated under water. And the boatmen’s song has also become memory.
However, we go to the Yangtze Three Gorges in order to keep this tourism quintessence and to find out the lost memory. After hard trudge, we found some part of the remaining ancient plank roads and connect parts by lanes and cruisers, we made it possible to hike the New Yangtze Three Gorges again.
D1. Arrive in Chongqing, check in 4-star hotel
D2. Go to Fengjie County by local bus and express ferry. Hike the west part of the Qutang Gorge.
D3. Hike along the Shennv Stream along the Gorgeside.
D4 Hike the middle part of the Wu Gorge with Goddess Peak.
D5 take ferry to Maoping.Visit the Three Gorge Dam stay in Yichang hotel
D6: Return .
D1 Chongqing Tour
Arrive in Chongqing airport by morning flight. City tour: visit the People’s Great Congress Hall, E`ling park and the Chongqing Zoo (Giant Panda), if time permits. Check in hotel after dinner.
D2 Hiking the west part of the Qutang Gorge
Depart from Chongqing at 7:00am by express ferry. Have lunch box onboard. Arrive at Fengjie at 2:30pm. Hike the west part of the Qutang Gorge. starting from White king town. The Qutang Gorge is known for the sheer and spectacle precipices. Hiking through the Kuimen Gate Ancient Plank Road, you can see the sharp cliffs stand on both sides. The highest mountain peak along the Three Gorges is about 1500 meters’ high above sea lever, and the narrowest ravine is only several dozens meters’ wide. Accommodation in the Fengjie Hotel. Have dinner in the hotel.
D3. Hike along the Shennv Stream along the Gorge side.
Depart Fengjie at 8:00, take express ferry to Wushan County.. Hiking Shennv Stream. You can visit local rural school. Or visit immigration family after back to Wushan county. Stay in farmer family
D4 Hike the middle part of the Wu Gorge with Goddess Peak.
Have your breakfast at 7:30am. Set out to the middle part of the Wu Gorge from the Wushan County at 8:30 am. This part you hike today belongs to the Wu Gorge. The remaining ancient plank road is only 10-30 meters above the water level.This trail is middle-level difficulty and about 3 hours’ walk in length. The Wu Gorge is known for its deep and beautiful cliffs. It would be an unforgettable experience for you to hike through those famous attractions such as the and the Scissors Peak You stay at farmers home overnight or return to Wushan County by ferry. Wushan Hotel
D5 Return trip
Take express ferry to Maoping, visit the Three Gorges Dam. End the exciting tour, take fight back from Yichang
After 75years continuous proposing and scientific research, the largest water conservancy project in China and also in the world, Three Gorge Project took into construction. It mainly comprises three large parts: dam, hydropower stations and navigation buildings. Nowadays, the dam together with the 5-step shiplocks has become one of the main tourist attractions in the Yangtze River tour.
The TGP is located at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei Province in the middle section of Xiling Gorge, about 38 km upstream of the Gezhouba Project. The dam site boasts excellent natural conditions such as a rather wide valley, sound and intact granite bedrock, an average annual runoff of more than 1 million km2. After the implementation, the concrete gravity dam will be 185m high, 1.1 km wide and 3,035m long on the top, and the normal pool level of reservoir is at 175 m, with total storage capacity of 39.3 billion m3 and the total acreage of the reservoir is 1,084 km2. The designed one-way shipping capacity of the navigation facilities (including a twin 5-step shiplock and a one-step vertical shiplift) is 5050 million tons a year. The shiplock can adequately handles tows up 10,000tons and shiplift can provide immediate service for any vessels under 3,000 tons. For construction of this project, 1.13 million migrants have been resettled and the expected investment is USD 24.65 billion.
Temperature |
Temperature |
Month
Temp. |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
June |
July |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
°C |
7 |
10 |
14.5 |
19.5 |
23 |
25.5 |
29 |
30 |
25 |
19 |
14 |
10.5 |
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Precipitation: |
Month
Rainfall |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
MM |
15 |
20 |
38 |
99 |
142 |
180 |
142 |
122 |
150 |
112 |
48 |
20 |
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| Hike route |
As the starting point of 'Hike the Yangtze', Chongqing boasts the most spectacular section of the well-known Three Gorges. The frequent fight links between Chonqqing and the major Cities at home and abroad make Hike Yangtze for all travelers very convenient.
7-Day Trek
D1: Arrive Chongqing , buffet at your Hotel.
D2: Visit migrants' settlement in Fengjie county, the trek itinerary
briefing in Hotel.
D3: Visit White Emperor's City , trek Qutang Gorge.(About 8 km, 4hours)
D4: Trek Wu Gorge, viewing 3 peaks of the Fairy Twelve Peaks on the way of
hiking, and the Goddess Peak and other wonders at the south bank of
Yangtze.(About 11 km, 4-5hours)
D5: Optional tours: Sampan cruise to The Lesser Three Gorges and mini-lesser
gorges or walk reddly, trek on the mountain.
D6: Trek Xi Ling Gorge. Climbing Chain cliff, taking a bird's eye view the
Xi Ling Gorge. Visit an orange production base where looks like a paradise.
D7: Departure from Yichang. |
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