day 19 & 20 - Simply beautiful scenery

day 19

The cruise played instrument music early in the morning making most of us to wake up, followed with some announcement, asking us to have breakfast at level 2. The food was not that tasty as compare to the food in town. The “man tou” was too hard to chew. Most of us eat the soup noodle which is more appealing than others. And only drink the soya milk.

soya milk

our breakfast

another cruise stopping at "Bai Di Cheng"

Welcome to Bai Di Cheng
This ticket allows one to get a free photo shot BUT one have to pay to get the photograph isn't it the same. I still can't get it.

Another Group photo of Daniel, Jarold, Yoke May and Me
It becoming a routine for us to take a group photo wherever we go. Thanks to Yoke May. She is the one keep reminding us.

Bridge

See out of the Box

Me,Roy,MY,Jarold & CS
we are Polim's "Models"(the click five) anyhow only.hahaa

It becoming a trend for us to take Jump Shot Photos

Statue of White Dragon
known to give people luck

is this statue or human???hahaa
will he gives luck too

like the scenery behind

yet another 21 guns
still more to come
i'm sure

The beautiful scenery begins here

We change to another ship to bring us to this place called "Shen Nong Xi". And through the whole journey we could see a lot of High Mountain that we never encounter before.We were all on top of the ship deck.

welcome "the journey to the Shen Nong Xi"

me, jarold & Roy

again Polim's model.hahaaa

okay i am not sure if you can see there is actually coffin in this picture.
Until now it is still a mystery and many still do not know how the olden people actually place the coffin in the Mountain.
what they assume to be is
1. the current is high so it is possible to place the coffin there
2.use rope to pull the coffin up
3. carry the coffin up( not possible to me)

does this look like figure of a face

The following THREE pictures are taken by Me
Hope ya like it

One

Two
(Christmas Tree)

Three

The Boat tracker

Trackers pulling the our Boat

see how much hard work they must put in

And here is Our Guide at Shen Nong Xi

the riders

Erwin and Me

Riders with Guide

back to cruise for dinner

It’s the first time I heard that there are elevators for cruises. The first sight that greeted me when I woke up was the Three Gorges Water Lock. In total, there are 5 locks to pass through and each of them takes about 30 minutes. The journey has been shortened by a huge lot thanks to the locks.
This is how the ships queue up before entering the Three Gorges Water Lock...

My reflection:
Those boat trackers are earning only 25 Yuan($5) per ride. I could see they are taking their work seriously showing the professionalism in them. In a boat, there are 8 trackers. One of them would be a captain giving the signal to the rest of the trackers so as to coordinate well on paddling the boat. Every one of them is working very hard in riding the boat. They were very experienced riders.
Our tour guide told us about the difficulties the boat riders have been through and that melted many of our hearts. We donated 84 Yuan at the end of the ride to the captain. Hopefully that would help some of them. I really did not expect many actually keen to donate that some amount to the tracker. This has shown the kindness of the Singaporean to me and to the riders. They will have a very great impression of the people in Singapore.