After our cliffside lunch we went on this long hiking trail that had an awesome ropes course. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of it because I was busy monkeying around on it! After the awesome ropes course, we walked through a huge cave that was full of stalactites and stalagmites. There had been power run through the cave so it was filled with different colored lights.
Once we emerged out of the cave, we got back on our bus and finally made it to our boat. On the bus ride we were hoping that they would have some good western plumbing and thankfully they did. I think the "Squatty-Potties" were getting to every one a little bit. Once we were on the boat we finally had some down time so we hit the top deck and enjoyed a game of cards.
We awoke the next morning to a lovely soundtrack at 5:30 sharp and found that the boat was docked. we got off our boat and then got on another boat that was taking us to some traditional "Peapod" boats to take us up the river the way that the natives used to hundreds and even thousands of years before us. The peapod boats were maned by four oarsmen and a captain. On the boat we got to learn all about the history that had been taken away by the flooding caused by the Three Gorges Dam project.
The second day on the boat we went to a temple up on top of a hill that had an incredible amount of stairs leading up to it. At the top we got to walk around the temple a little bit and enjoy some incredible views and snap a couple of Mojo group pictures.
So many stairs
Mojo minus our fearless leader
The next day we left the boat bright and early and took the 5 hour bus ride back to Wuhan where we met up with Steve for the last time and got to do a little shopping. Then we were back on an airplane headed towards Beijing.
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