When my parents came to visit me in Wuhan, we decided to take a weekend trip up to the three gorges. We had a 2 night cruise from Yichang to Fengjie and back to take in all three of the Gorges, plus a side trip up an arm of the reservoir to the Shennong River. The reservoir level was already at 138m when we arrived and most of the important sights and towns have already been either submerged or moved to higher ground. The waterline is expected to rise even further to 175m by 2009, and we were able to see evidence of towns being ... (more)