8 Days Yangtze Discovery Cruises from Chongqing to Wuhan

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. The cruise company will arrange a vehicle to see you off at the Chongqing airport / train station. If you like, you can also choose to discover Chongqing after disembarkation.

Fengdu Ghost City is a large complex of shrines, temples and monasteries dedicated to the afterlife located on Ming Mountain. You’ll have a learning about Chinese demons and beliefs of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.

Performed on the river stage near Qutang Gorge with rich poetry culture and hi-tech projections, Three Kingdoms Open Air Show is a newly created and worth expecting on-site live performance by Zhang Yimou specialized in shows on real landscapes.

Yunyang Longgang National Geological Park is built atop the majestic mountains at the riverside of the Yangtze River. Here, you will enjoy awe-inspiring hiking along the trails built at the hillside of the cliffs and also breathtaking walking along the grass-paved platform hanging in the air. Look up to see the rolling mountain tops standing shoulder by shoulder, then look down to the deep gorge with lush banks and stunning turns. You won’t get no a better gorge view than here.

White Emperor City is located on the north side of Qutang Gorge, White Emperor City offers the best angle to view the magnificent Kui Gate. Known as the Poem City, White Emperor City has attracted many poets come and left many famous poems. What makes this place known to outside is the historical story of “Entrusting Zhuge Liang with an Orphan in Baidi Town”.

Qutang Gorge at the western section is narrow and dramatic like an art gallery of nature, which offers superb magnificent scenery for all guests. Wu Gorge is 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.

Shennv Stream has painting-like natural wonderland to appreciate the primitive waterscape with strange rocks, verdant peculiar peaks, winding water, in the serene valley with crispy chirps of at Yangtze.

Three Gorges Dam Five Stages Ship Locks 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.

Jingzhou Ancient City Wall is one of the best preserved and larges scaled city wall in southern part in China, which 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.

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.

Welcome to Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province right located in the middle of the navigable part of the Yangtze River between Shanghai and Chongqing! For centuries, Wuhan has always been a popular tourist destination as it is rich in a long history, beautiful blossoms and so forth. But in 2019 and 2020, it was out of visitors’ travel list because of the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Now, everything bad has passed and its popularity comes back again!

You will disembark the cruise at Wuhan port. If you like, you can choose to discover Wuhan after disembarkation.