Yangtze River Cruise

Yangtze River Cruise
Navigate ancient Yangtze in Style with 30 premier ships of 6 cruise fleets, to safeguard the outstanding quality of your Yangtze cruise travel. These premier cruises are sailing on the golden water pathway of the mighty Three Gorges between Chongqing and Yichang, en route traverse through Chongqing, Ghost City Fengdu, Wanzhou, Zhang Fei Temple, Baidicheng (White Emperor Town), the Three Gorges (Xiling Gorge, Wu Gorge and Wutang Gorge), Shennong Stream or Lesser Three Gorges drift, and a highlight of the tour - the short excursion to the Three Gorges Dam Site.
The Yangtze River is the longest river in China as well as the third longest one in the world with the length of 6300 km and over 700 tributaries. The river basin covers the 1/5 of China's territory. As our mother river, not only does it raise all her children, but also cultivates our colorful culture. From the snowy plateau to the rich Yangtze Delta, she has painted a genuine picture that is worth reading heartedly by everyone. Especially, the Three Gorges, known as the 'Landscape panting ', is at the top of the best 40 tourist attractions cross the country. Its natural beauty and culture treasures made it remarkable all over world.
Sailing itineraries:
Highlights (short haul): Chongqing – Yichang or Yichang – Chongqing.
Most cruises are sailing between Chongqing and Yichang, and majority sceneries locate within this water route. It takes lesser time and most sightseeing sceneries in one time at lower price. A four-hour-bus transfer is normally arranged between Yichang and Wuhan whenever embarkation and disembarkation made at Yichang pier, considering more flights operation at Wuhan than at Yichang.
Discovery (long haul): Chongqing – Wuhan or reverse, Chongqing – Shanghai or reverse.
The discovery itinerary suites well to these who are flexible in time goedkope replica horloges and wishing an in depth view of the Three Gorges region. Taking a discovery cruise grants you more time for relaxing and spend at leisure way, also allows you the maximum opportunities to paticipate activities that you might interested in on board such as lectures on traditional Chinese culture, show of Chinese painting and hand-writing arts, and physical health care etc.. You need to leave more time spending on board and cost more for these itineraries.
Upstream or downstream?
Most people would prefer a navigation downstream. Nevertheless a cruise upstream is fascinating too, that takes a longer time and grants extra sceneries to enjoy. For that reason we arrange the upstream itinerary too. It is advisable to consider with your entire travel duration when choose a downstream or up-river itinerary of the cruise.
Merit of a downstream itinerary: fast-speed of vessels, obey to the flowing direction of river, with an average speed of 28-30 km per hour, shorter times spend (3D/2N).
Merit of a upstream itinerary: a steady speed of 15-18 km per hour guaranteed. Sufficient time to enjoy views en route, listen the descriptions and comments, raise questions and receive answer, enough time to create pictures. More time on board allows a leisure pace to study and gaim knowledge of traditional Chinese culture and history, and join activities on board such as health care and entertainment etc..
The best time for Yangtze cruise:
The best seasons to take a Yangtze cruise are spring and autumn. To be more specific, it is April, May, September and October when the weather is pleasurably cool and comfortable. These four months are often called high season, while from June till August are shoulder season, and the winter months of starting from November till next March are considered as the “low season”. The prices are the lowest in winter and the highest in high season annually.
Package or cruise only?
It is your personal likes to book alone a Yangtse cruise or a complete package with us. The advantage of a package would be that we enabling tailor made your private experience in China with all tour segments fitting ideally together or you can simply pick one of our well-studied package of Yangtze Cruise and arrange it your way. If you book one of our standard cruise itinerary alone, we would suggest to reserve with us at least the transfer services from your hotel, airport and train or bus station to the pier, so that we can insure a smooth check-in process.