TRANSPORTATION IN CHINA

Photos from various cities in China

2008

Shanghai: It is surprising what people can carry on motorbikes

Shanghai – looks like he’s going the wrong direction!

Left: Pedestrians mix in with

motorized traffic – and

construction – regardless of the

load.

Below: taxi anyone?

Babies get

transported

on backs

Getting to market – from

chickens to watermelons.

IN THE LOCKSWe spent five days aboard the Princess Jeannie, lower right. We had

company in the locks of the 3 Gorges Dam, above left.

Off to visit

Three Gorges

Dam in

Yinchang –

up some 200

steps. The

cable cars

weren’t

available the

first time we

left the

Princess

Jeannie!

The next time we disembarked, to visit Wanxian, the cars were working.

This is where we saw an open-air market and a museum with one of the

hanging coffins used by the Ba people.

Looking down from the cable car.

Pretty elegant living space for a couple of barges! Many

vessels had plants – and drying laundry -- on them.

Transportation up Shennong Stream at

the mouth of the Xiling Gorge in

Badong. Trackers poled and pulled us in

peapod boats, named for the shape.

They have a competitive spirit, and

raced one another.

These guys had their work cut out for them! Everyone grumbled about

the attractive, orange vests, but we all wore them.

A coal barge passes a city along the Yangtze River.

The small wooden boat creates a striking contrast with the city behind it.

This dragon boat carries passengers on

Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace, Beijing.

A high-speed hydrofoil on the Yangtze.

The marble boat built by Empress Ci Xi in 1893, using funds that were

supposed to build a navy. It sits in Kunming Lake at the foot of

Longevity Hill in the Summer Palace, Beijing.

OK, so I couldn’t resist

the image of a guy on

his motorcycle,

underneath the golden

arches. This is a real

gas-powered

motorcycle; many

people ride electric

scooters.

A farm vehicle (?) near Guilin.

Sometimes you just throw

a cab over your tricycle . . .

. . . Sometimes you just add a box to the back end.

Rickshaws are just for

tourists these days, and are

bicycle-powered. Still, hard

work on a hot day!

This farm woman has the most reliable

transportation – a water buffalo. It doesn’t

break down, and it makes fertilizer, too!