day 18 - Trip to the Three Gorges Dam

First thing first when I woke up is to check my result. I did not get the result I wanted to get so it is rather kind of a disappointment. I have to really work hard for the next semester.
We woke up very early in the morning at 6.20 am before we took the 5 hours ride to YiChang.

Erwin & I on the bus heading to YiChang

Many of us were hungry so we finished our almost all of our lunch at our destination. As usual, it was a 9 course meal and a bowl of soup. The food here is up to my standards as it is not too oily and not too salty.

Our breakfast+lunch
kind of the most delicious food we had

The visit to the Three Gorges dam after we had our lunch was significant. It was the world’s largest electricity-generating plant and it was located along the Yangtze River. The whole projects were completed in 2008.

The Three Gorges Dam

written in chinese

Guide explaining the Three Gorges Dam

the damn solid body

me, MingYu,Chong sien & Mr Joseph
(cant really see the Dam as it is too foggy)

Group Photo requested by YokeMay

and a group JUMP SHOT (me.YokeMay.Daniel.Jarold)

it so called "Giant Book"

posting requested by Me

The Six Musketeers

never i seen such a large machine before

The Bonding of 21 guns

we have our dinner before we board to cruise. The food is not as good as the one we had for our lunch.

Dinner

I was expecting the cruise to be something like star cruise standard. But it was ended to be way way way worse than it. The room has weird smell went we entered but it gone after I opened the windows. Toilet is too small and we have to squeeze our self in when closing the toilet door. I even killed a few cockroaches in the room. We kind of on the aircon but the air came out from it was very unpleasant so we sleep through the night without aircon but the cool sea breeze instead. I will rate the cruise 3/10 as I have seen worse than this in Indonesia. But the way the Tour guide describe about the cruise before we board was not to be the one I see. He said it would be big and quite a leisure cruise. But I Kind of disappointed after I've seen it.

my hotel room

My reflection:
I am very proud of the Three Gorges Dam project. The huge amount of money China has put in is very worthwhile. Not only it prevents flooding but also acts as an energy production. The hydroelectric power actually generates 15 percent of the China’s electricity. This has reduces the amount of fuels which use to generate the power stations. From this scenario, I can see that China has actually planned in advanced for the good in future. Country will continue to prosper if the government runs the country well. Singapore is rather a small country so it is easier to control compare to China. When one sees the three gorges dam with his/her naked eyes, he/she will just wonder how they actually built it. It is such a difficult project and it is something I’m proud of.