Decided against any of the side trips today as the costs were mounting up and there was nothing of great interest to see. Spent the day instead getting our money's worth of tea and nibbles on the deck!! This evening we docked in Wushan so we decided to go for a wander and have dinner in one of the small restaurants by the water. Halfway through dinner we were told that the boat was leaving and we had to hurry back which we did only to then sit on the boat for ...

Got picked up at 6:50 this morning for the 5 hour drive to Chongqing. We were taken to the Yangtze cruise tour office where we were told we would be able to arrange our train for the end of the cruise to X'ian. However, when we tried they kept trying to tell us we had to pay for their expensive hotel or a 50 yuan service charge, so we decided to take a chance and sort it ourselves when we arrived. We had 5 hours to kill in Chongqing (apparantly the biggest city i...