Today is our last day on the ship, it is amazing the stuff the dam lost. I am really glad we saw the old China... the small boat ride to go up the river to see the hanging coffins, the trackers tracks, the human coal workers... all lost. 1300 archaeological sites. Gone forever. There are still beautiful farms up the hills, but not like before with the cute homes/buildings and the farmers who had been there for generations.
The cities that are relocation cities have no history. 1997 apartment buildings that look like they are 50 years old is all. Many are empty because the young have relocated themselves to bigger cities for more opportunities
Janell and Lauren are working on music video. Janell chose a song and she made up a dance. the dance was recorded and broken into 28 segments. they transferred this to an ipod. We go to a site, Janell gets the ipod out and looks at the segment, plugs the music into her ear and does that segment. Then they get back and render it, putting it together. One song, one dance, many Chinese locations. Kind of fun quest. We are always looking for scenery... fish markets (ben wanted her to jump on a small fishing boat..... no) temples, interesting backgrounds. People stop to watch and it has been fun.
We stopped at Shibao Zhai city. There was a pagoda built in the 1600's on a hill, making steps so they could get to the temple on top of the hill. After the dam, the water came up to it so they built a suspension bridge to it from the heightened city. Now it is not so high. We climbed the pagoda.
We took a cab to the food market to see the street food and saw some amazing stuff. Notice I did not say "ate". we were spectators for most of the food experience.
