Home » The Three Gorges (長江三峽) » Xi Ling Gorge (西陵峽)

Xi Ling Gorge was one of the three famed gorges on the Yangtze River (As an aside about the name Yangtze: Chinese people has called the Yangtze River the Long River since time immemorial. The origin of the name Yangtze is sort of a mystery. Supposedly a section of the river in the Shanghai area was named Yangtze and Westerners who only knew that part of China had named the whole of the river after that section, with that name sticking in the Western psyche ever since...).

Entrance to Xi Ling Gorge #1	Entrance to Xi Ling Gorge #2	Xi Ling Gorge #3	Two rams
Industrial boat traffic	One of many spanning bridges	One of many coal storages by the river (coals are collected here to be shipped by barges or boats to the big cities)	A local boatsman
Xi Ling Gorge #4	Another local boatsman	Terrace fields by the river	A temple in the mountains
Calligaphy by the river	Our German speaking river guide (who was a student intern from Germany who would leave with us at the end of the cruise to go back to Germany)	Xi Ling Gorge #5	Ancient calligraphy on the rocks
Xi Ling Gorge #6	Xi Ling Gorge #7	A new settlement built for displaced locals	A modern looking bridge
Ken and Alison Powe from Australia at the back deck	Arriving at Ba Dong (巴 東) at the end of day 1 of cuise.

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