Spent a couple of hours on the internet this morning catching up on a few things then went to organise the room for an extra night. Unfortunately they didn't have a room for tonight but organised a cab and some help to move all our stuff to their sister hostel. The room was not so nice but the staff were really friendly and so it was hard to be annoyed. Went to the ICBC office to get train tickets but the window was shut up so I went back to the hostel to find...

Got to the airport for 8:30 this morning for a 9:30 flight only to find that the plane was delayed because of fog. Luckily the airport was really nice and so we sat around and read for most of the day until we finally got to take off at 3:30. The flight was only an hour and we were able to pick up a shuttle bus to the city centre. Went to a hostel recommended to us by the German guy we had met on the cruise and managed to get a room. Took a walk to the Muslim...

Got up early to do the tour of the Mini Three Gorges. We had to transfer to a smaller boat (which was still relatively large) travel for an hour and then move into much smaller boats for the final half and hour in order to see the 3 smaller gorges merge into one. It was a nice trip although looked much like the past 24 hours! Came back on board for lunchtime and set sail for our final destination of Yichang. Arrived here at 6:00 in the evening and got a bus t...

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...