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Three Gorges Dam

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It covers 15.28 square kilometers and has five scenic spots readily available to the tourists at present.

It has gradually formed the embryonic form of the traveling system, including: the dam sightseeing, Pinghu sightseeing, the flood discharge sightseeing, and the top of dam sightseeing.

Tanziling Tourism Area is among the first national tourism area of high grade, and also the earliest developed one in Three Gorges Dam District. It got its name because the shape of its sightseeing platform on top is like an inversed earthen jar. The place where his tourism area locates is the dam construction survey spot, with an altitude of 262.48 meters, is the best position for watching the whole scene of Three Gorges Project, where you can not only enjoy grand and magnificent Three Gorges Dam, but also watch the steeply rising "No.4 canyon of the Yangtze River" with bidirectional sluice of five levels.

The whole area is divided into three floors from the top to the bottom according to the gradual increase of the height, mainly including model exhibition hall, the ten-thousand-year stones in the river plinth, the cut-off stone of the big river dam, the cornerstone of Three Gorges Dam, the silver-version book from heaven and Tanziling scenery-watching platform, as well as grand spring, beautiful waterfall, winding brook and green lawn passing through.

185-scenery-watching spot is located in the left entrance of the road in the top of Three Gorges Dam, which got its name due to the same height with the top of it, namely, an altitude of 185 meters.

Jinba scenery-watching spot is located in the front of generating set factory building in the left bank of the dam, which is the beautiful scenery spot to watch the dam and flood charge with a closer distance.

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8:00 – 17:30

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You can take No.4 bus to Yemingzhu bus station in Yichang city proper ( it costs 1 yuan per person on bus, and 2 yuan on mid-bus), then change to take No. 8 bus to Dam District (costs 8 yuan per person), which only takes half an hour. Or you can take the coach to Zigui new County in Yemingzhu bus station, and along the way you can get off in Wangjia Ping where you can visit Three Gorges Engraved Stone and Xianren Bridge. The coach from the morning to night is available.