{"id":215,"date":"2009-07-19T17:39:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T21:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web1prod.sunflowerit.ca\/wordpress\/?p=215"},"modified":"2017-05-29T21:21:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T01:21:25","slug":"yangtze-river-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/china-2009\/trips-asia\/other-trips\/yangtze-river-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Yangtze River Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early Thursday morning, we left our Guilin hotel, hoped in a taxi to the bus station and then traveled to the airport. We checked our bags and waited 2 hours for our flight. The airport was very warn. After an hour flight, we arrived in Chongqing and took the airport shuttle bus into town. We struggled to find an empty taxi to get to our target hotel. It seems that many hotels in town suffer from musky smell, we could relate to this situation. We spent much of the day exploring our option for a Yangtze River cruise. With all the negotiation of the day, Jenny realized that she was sometimes at a lost for Chinese words. We finally opted for a two day cruise … in first class. At the same time, we booked our hotel room in Yichang, the destination of our cruise, and airline tickets from Yichang to Chengdu. We’ve noticed by now, after dealing with hotel and travel agency staff, that we appear to be very strange to them when asked for our cell phone number and we answer that we don’t have any. We are probably a handful of folks in China without a cell number … oh well .. we do have a netbook and some postcards!!<\/p>\n