Three Gorges

Below Wushan is the 25-mile long Wu Xia (Witches Gorge), known for its quiet beauty, forest covered mountains, and sheer cliffs This middle gorge is best known for twelve unique peaks. Often hidden in swirls of mist, six lines the north side of the riv...

The river winds its way 33 kilometers (20 miles) from Wushan through the beautiful Lesser Gorges. Birds singing and monkeys chattering can sometimes be seen from both banks. The water is strikingly clear. Each gorge is separated by lush terraced fields...

A few miles into Fenjie County, on the northern bank of the Yangtze River is Baidi City (White Emperor City), also called Baidi Temple. It is located on Baidi Mountain at the mouth of Qutang Gorge, one of the Three Gorgers of the Yangtze River.
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Bellows Gorge is located in the cliffs among the cerdant mountains when you travel downstream, where three Chinese characters 'Feng Xiang Xia' were written hundreds of meters above the gorge once, but now, they have been submerged by the raising water ...

Qutang Xia (Qutang Gorge), is the shortest (5 miles), narrowest (500 feet), and most dramatic. Two mountains, Chijia Shan (Red Passage Mountain) and Baiyan Shan (White Salt Mountain), guard the entrance to this gorge like giant castle doors.
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