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the while you could stay in your cabin and look out through the
cabinwide windows or go updeck and just lookaround, take a seat,
start a chat, have a coffee and let China glide by. Wonderful,
I'm glad I had a video camera with me and look forward to enjoy
it several times more. I enjoyed the 3.5 hour boat cruise in Guilin
but almost three full days of Yang Tze was incomparable. Read
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It's 3 o clock in the morning.
I look out of the window and see a very high concrete wall, higher
than the ship. Is this a nightmare? is our ship being caught in
a concrete tub? No we are just passing so called locks. These locks
enable a ship to be transfered from a higher portion of a river
to a lower portion, vice versa. Living in the Netherlands we had
seen these locks (sluices) very often. But with a 5500 ton boat
going in a lock together with some 5-6 other smaller boats in the
middle of the night and going down some 65 meters in river surface
height in four hours time is quite an experience. Read
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