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长江三峡
The Yangtze River and It's Three Gorges

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If you wish to find the beating heart of China, there is only one road that takes you there. The Yangtze River...
Third longest river on the planet, it takes the melt water of the Tibetan Plateau, mixes it with the runoff from most of the mountains of western China, then blasts down through the gorges to flood the rice bowl of eastern China. To understand the power of this river, imagine the combined flows of the Nile, Amazon and Mississippi surging through this channel. Capable of rising as much as 275 feet in a very few days, the Yangtze (or Chiang Jiang) has historically been the source of horrendous floods, claiming lives by the hundreds of thousands.

The vertical walls of the Yangtze Gorges

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The Renowned Red Pavilion of Shibao Zhai

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More of Lanruo Dian - The Red Pavilion of Shibao Zhai

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Daning He - The Mini-Three Gorges

Farm Clinging to the Very Steep walls of the Yangtze

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Steep slopes of a tributary flowing into the Yangtze

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长江 三峡 The Yangtze River and It's Three Gorges

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长江三峡
The Yangtze River and It's Three Gorges

^{left click on any image to enlarge it}