Helen performs the Yanger (harvest) dance with a fan.
Wind demonstrates a dance from Inner Mongolia. Note the high boots and thick robes associated with colder weather. The movements represent eagles, milking yaks and deer.
Pucca does a dance from the Tibetan plateau. It includes a lot of hiking movements with the feet. The long sleeves are used to tie stuff up on one's back.
Kiki, Pucca, Wind and Helen
Now it's time for the passengers to participate. Wind, Helen and Jack listen to instructions.
During dinner, we watched the sun set on our last night on the river. As evening approached, a thick mist moved in, covering the river with an eerie veil.
A new bridge slowly takes form.
The mist swooped down like a long dragon across the water.
Ancestoral shrines dot the hillside.
The Princess Elaine... one of our sister ships
Temples cover the hillside at Fengdu, an ancient city known as the Ghost City.
Allegedly during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220), Wang Fangping and Yin Changsheng, two officials from the imperial court, came to Ming Mountain (Mingshan) outside Fengdu City to practice Taoist teachings. Eventually they both became immortals, and their story spread widely. But when their surnames, Yin and Wang, are combined together, the sound in Chinese is very similar to "ruler of hell." Since then, it has had a fabled relationship to ghosts and the afterlife.
A pagoda overlooks the river from its lofty perch, protecting the area from dragons.
The sun sets on our final day on the Yangtze.
Special desserts, creampuffs in the shape of swans, grace our last cruise meal.
Everyone is given glowing lights for the crew's final grand performance.
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