Three Gorges Museum

As Terri noted on the last post, we visited the three Gorges Museum. It's really more of a beautiful park and the museum part is more an explanation of why the three gorges dam is being built. It is the largest water project in the world. The biggest issue is that when the dam is finished, it will flood many current cities. Residents are being relocated and historical land marks will be lost forever. Because this is a communist country the Chinese do not question it. They go along with all of the goverment hype. I'm sure that there will be a lot of benefits, but it is sad to see all that will be lost. Below is a picture of Fu Ling, were Anslee is from. I'm not sure if you can see the red and white bar in the picture, but everything below that line will be underwater. The number on the photo represents the 68,000 residents of Fu Ling that will be displaced. There were about 8 cities that will suffer the same fate. Upwards of 500,000 people will have to be relocated. The project will be complete in 2009. The large rock formation in the center of the picture has carvings that date back many centuries. It is used as a sort of agricultural predictor. It raises and lowers in and out of the water with the change in seasons. After the project it will be permanently submerged.






Here is a photo of the lady that tought us how to properly drink tea.


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