Traditional wooden tour boats with yellow tile roofs moored on the Yangtze River within a deep forested gorge, with steep limestone cliffs rising on both sides. - Photo by Freysteinn G. Jonsson on Unsplash
DestinationAsiaChina

Yangtze River, Three Gorges (Chongqing to Yichang)

A first-person trip report structure that captures the shifting landscape from Chongqing's neon sprawl to the dramatic gorges and the Three Gorges Dam, told through a traveler's day-by-day lens.

1 article

trip report

Six Days on the Yangtze: A River Cruise Through China's Three Gorges

Six days downstream from Chongqing to Yichang through Qutang, Wu, and Xiling Gorge, with a Shennong Stream side trip, a five-stage lock transit, and the practical detail to plan around them.

Priya Raman

Planning something in particular?

Have a Cordelie advisor build the trip around you

The right room, the right season, the reservations that never appear online — and a person who has booked it before, rather than a search box.

Talk to an advisor

Cordelie Travel Services · IATA/ARC 06649064

Get the guides as they land

Destination guides, itineraries and the practical detail that goes stale everywhere else. Pick how often you want to hear from us.

How often

One address, no sharing, and an unsubscribe link in every email. Change how often, or stop, whenever you like.

Yangtze River, Three Gorges (Chongqing to Yichang)