8 Days Luxury Yangtze River Cruise from Chongqing to Jiujiang 2025

Welcome to Chongqing, the City of Mountain. Chongqing is China’s fourth municipality after Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, attracting visitors from home and aboard for its delicious food, cultural heritage, tourist attractions, unbelievable mountain landform... Located at the confluence of Yangtze River and Jialing River, it is best to appreciate the view of the city center. Take the tourist bus arranged by Yangtze Explorer from Chongqing airport / railway station / your hotel in Chongqing downtown to Chaotianmen Dock and board the ship at 16:00-20:30. Come to the sundeck to enjoy the terrific night view of Chongqing, which is reputed as the “little Hong Kong”. Depart from Chongqing at around 21:30.

Chongqing Chaotianmen Dock

Chongqing Chaotianmen Port for Yangtze Cruise

In the morning, you will take a shore excursion to 816 Nuclear Military Plant or Baihe Underwater Museum.

816 Nuclear Military Plant strikes the world not only because it’s the world largest artificial cave, but also for its unveiled structure of the real nuclear plant (radiationless for no manufacture happened). You would meet the tens of kilometers long cave, multiple paths inside and a lot of unbelievable parts in the 816 Underground Project. As in the list of 20th century’s architectural heritages in China, this plant is really great for visiting, education and knowledge enrichment.

Baiheliang Underwater Museum or called White Crane Ridge Underwater Museum is the precious archeological site in Fuling District, Chongqing Municipality. 1600 meters long and 15 meters wide averagely, this natural stone ridge recorded and witnessed the water level changes of over 1200 years. Carving fishes as the water gauge on the ridge, it is the only place using such great method in the whole world.

At night, you will enjoy Feng Yan San Guo Show night performance, which is the marvelous large-scale real landscape show about the brilliant historical culture of the Three Kingdoms Period about over 1,800 year ago and the spirit of loyalty of great military officer Guan Yu.

Three Kingdoms Open Air Show

Fuling 816 Nuclear Military Plant

You will first sail through Qutang Gorge at the western section, an narrow and dramatic art gallery of nature offering superb magnificent scenery for all guests. 

Take a shore excursion to Shennv Heaven Path with an average altitude of about 1,200 meters. It is advantageous to overlook the belt-like emerald Yangtze and verdant flowery gorge mountains, especially for the autumn and winter red leaves.

Then, sail through Wu Gorge - the middle one gorge. It is a mysterious gorge site well-known for its frequently rising and passing mists, which is extremely beautiful and gorgeous with the leaves in red, yellow, golden and orange during autumn.

At night,the cruise will pass through Three Gorges Dam Five Stages Ship Locks, which is so far the largest ship locks globally. With a water height difference of 113 meters in total, it is the most complicated ship locks to construct universally.

Wushan Shennv Heaven Path in Chongqing

Xiling Gorge with Mists

Three Gorges Dam with Ship Locks

Magnificent Qutang Gorge

Breathtaking Wu Gorge Scenery

Today, you will have two options for a shore excursion, Tribe of Three Gorges or Interception Memorial Garden.

Tribe of Three Gorges is one of the best complimented scenic spots by foreign cruise visitors and is superb to get close to the particularly tranquil, primitive and nice sightseeing of villages on water, on mountain and off brook with fine exploration of interesting folk custom of Tujia minority people.

Interception Memorial Park is composed by performances square, display halls, slide shows and more scenic sites. Facing the dam and mountains behind, Memorial Park is the best place to taking photos with the dam, which can’t miss out.

After your lunch in Yichang City, get back to your cruise and countinue your relaxing trip.

Tribe of Tribe of Three Gorges

As your cruise arrive in Jingzhou in the afternoon, take a shore excursion to Jingzhou Ancient City Wall and Jingzhou Museum.

Jingzhou Ancient City Wall, is one of the best preserved and larges scaled city wall in southern part in China. It is historic from the Warring States period. Visit this ancient site to admire its look kept from the Qing dynasty and understand the history of Jingzhou being the famous place in the past dynasties.

Jingzhou Museum is one of the top National First Class Museums in China with over 130 thousand pieces of historical cultural relics. Admire the top best silk and colorful lacquer exhibitions from the Warring States period, well preserved swords of famous ancient kings. Besides, it boasts the best preserved and most historic ancient male corpse buried in 167BC from the Western Han dynasty.

Jingzhou Museum

Jingzhou Ancient City Wall

As your cruise arrive in Yueyang in the afternoon, you can take excursions to Yueyang Tower and Bianhe Street, or visit Zhangguying Village instead.

Yueyang Tower is one of the ten famous historical and cultural towers in China which is well-known for over 1,000 thousand years since the classic Chinese poem. Besides the outstanding construction skills and abundant poem and calligraphic displays, you can get on the tower to admire the great sightseeing of Dongting Lake.

Bianhe Street is a 300-meter long antique street with elegant and ancient charm and is great to savor the ancient styled architectures with mixed culture of Yueyang Tower, Dongting Lake and the famous Yueyang City.

Zhangguying Village of more than 500 years old since the moving in of Zhang Guyang who was a master of Fengshui is praised as “Forbidden City for Folks”, where preserves quite complete ancient village houses, stream and paths and keeps almost the original look hundreds of years ago for a pleasant admiration.

Yueyang Zhangguying Village

Yueyang Tower

Yueyang Bianhe Street

Today, you get two choices for a whole day's excursion, Wuhan or Huanggang.

Yellow Crane Tower from 223 AD is the symbol of Wuhan and is one of the Three Famous Towers in Regions South of the Yangtze River. The antique designs, flying eaves, and rich left charm is great to soak in the literal culture in the historically well-known Chinese poem.

Hubei Provincial Museum, one of the 8 national class museums in China, displays nearly 1,000 pieces of state-level historic and cultural relics. It currently holds over 240 thousand objects to logistically introduce the history and culture of the ancient Chu State and the ancient Yangtze River, among which the most astonishing are the objects excavated from the Zenghouyi Tomb which was built about 2,400 years ago.

Red Cliff is the very site of the historical famous war - Battle of the Red Cliff in 208 AD and contains the original battleground more relative poems and ancient buildings for a clear understanding of the influential place in Chinese history and literary.

At night, you board Zhiyinhao Ship, which provides the multi-dimensional drama to show the typical look of the old Wuhan and the port life during 1920s ~ 1930s with great stories.

Ref Cliff in Huanggang, Hubei

Live Performance on Zhiyinhao Cruise in Wuhan

Precious Chimes at Hubei Provincial Museum

Yellow Crane Tower

Disembark the ship at 09:00 in Jiujiang. The entire Chongqing to Jiujiang cruise ends! Take the tourist bus arranged by Yangtze Explorer to the airport / railway station for your next destination or home.