Yangtze River Transportation
There are mainly four port cities for the Yangtze River Cruise: Chongqing, Yichang, Shashi and Wuhan.
Chongqing and Wuhan are metropolises with a big airport and flights to the major cities in China. Flights from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Kunming and Guilin operate to the two cities every day.
Their is also a small airport in Yichang where there are flights (Boeing 737) to Wuhan everyday and also daily flights to Chongqing (Boeing737 and YN7).
There is no airport in Shashi, but a luxury air-conditioned coach travels between Wuhan and Shashi on the express way (about 3 hours, 262km) and departs every hour. There is also expressway between Yichang and Wuhan so coach travel between these cities is also easy. It's about 378km and 4 hours' drive.
Table of Distance and Time - Upstream
Port or Scene |
Distance/ km(mi) |
Time/hr |
|---|---|---|
| Wuhan | 0 | 0 |
| Chibi | 162(101) | 8hr30m |
| Yueyang | 231(144) | 3hr30m |
| Shashi | 478(297) | 13hr |
| Yichang | 626(398) | 9hr10m |
| Geyhouba Dam Lock | 635(395) | 30m |
| Sandouping | 672(418) | 2hr |
| Zigui | 711(442) | 2hr |
| Badong | 740(460) | 1hr40m |
| Shennong Stream | 746(464) | 30m |
| Wushan | 796(495) | 3hr30m |
| Fengjie | 835(519) | 2hr40m |
| Shibaozhai | 1015(631) | 11hr30m |
| Fengdu | 1109(689) | 6hr |
| Chongqing | 1286(799) | 11 hr30 |
| 76 hours |
Table of Distance and Time - Downstream
Port or Scene |
Distance/ km(mi) |
Time/hr |
|---|---|---|
| Chongqing | 0 | 0 |
| Fengdu | 177(110) | 6hr30m |
| Shibaozhai | 271(168) | 3hr30m |
| Fengjie | 451(280) | 6hr40m |
| Wushan | 490(305) | 1 hr30m |
| Shennong Stream | 540(336) | lhr50m |
| Badong | 546(339) | L0m |
| Zigui | 575(357) | 1hr5m |
| Sandouping | 614(382) | 1hr30m |
| Gezhouba Dam Lock | 651(405) | 1 hr20m |
| Yichang | 660(410) | 20m |
| Shashi | 808(502) | 5hr15m |
| Yueyang | 1055(656) | 8hr30m |
| chibi | 1124(699) | 2hr30 |
| Wuhan | 1286(799) | 5hr30m |
| 46 hours |
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