We took a week long cruise from Chongqing to Shanghai in July.

Finding the ship was very difficult, even with Chinese instructions for the taxi driver and we were dropped at the wrong dock. Some porters miraculously appeared and took our luggage about 1 km to where the VP was docked next to 2 rusty barges that we had to walk through.

Just as we arrived, a brass band started playing to greet us, and stopped the minute we walked on board! Read more