After passing thru the locks of the Dam Project, this morning after an early breakfast we got on buses to visit the Dam in the daylight. However as you can see from the photos, the clouds and fog gave us limited views. It was also rather cold and windy with temperatures around 50F. The dam is 190 meters high and 2,100 meters across making it one of the largest damns in the world. It generates more hydroelectric power than any other dam on the planet. The other main reason for its construction is to help control the intermittently deadly flooding that takes place on the Yangtze.
Later that day we passed thru the single lock of the Gezhouba Dam that was placed as a test dam downstream from the Three Gorges Project. So I was able to get some photos of the lock function as we lowered 25 meters in 10 minutes.
We then cruised thru relatively flat lands with a wide and shallow river as we entered a rich agricultural area
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