Brett and I traveled to China last March, between the last week of March 2006 and the first week of April 2006. Our general itinerary was to fly into Beijing, spend two days there, then fly to Chongqing to board a 200 passenger cruise ship, and cruise for 4 days down the Yangtze River, all the way to the Three Gorges Dam project. We disembarked from our cruise ship near Shanghai, and spent two days in that marvelous and spectacular city.

You really cannot imagine what a city of 24 million (Beijing) people is like. There is nothing in America that can compare to this. It boggles the mind! 24 million people all in one huge city! And Beijing is not even China's most populous city. Chongqing has 28 million.

As this blog evolves, I will be uploading more photos with brief descriptions. I can't wait to start blogging about my upcoming trip to Kenya, Africa.

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I love to make new friends on every trip. Incredibly, there was only one other couple in our tour group; Vicki & Rick from Oklahoma. Vicki and I really hit it off. Here we are in the front of a sampan boat, exploring one of the gorges along the Yangtze river.

















Here I am helping our sampan pilot watch out for DRAGONS in the waters of the 3 Gorges.
Actually, Dragons are considered very good luck in China...a symbol of power and wisdom, and an emblem of the emperors of old China.



















Me and my gang...we live to ride...the Yangtze River!
Here I am with hubby (to be at that time) Brett, and Rick & Vicki from Oklahoma
They were great traveling buds, and we shared lots of laughs.