YANGTZE RIVER CRUISE🚢 Chongqing to the Three Gorges w/ Victoria Cruises - China vlog | Lesley Adina

[@lv_cocolover7322]

Your videography skills truly come through in your travel vlogs! Bravo!! Loved the editing and choice of music. Thank you for giving us two vlogs a week🤩

[@LesleyAdina]

Honestly, that means so much to me❤️ Thank you!!

[@linus631]

Great video! Beautiful country! Thank you for sharing! ❤😊

[@LesleyAdina]

Thank you, Linus🤗 China truly is such a fascinating country!

[@zhichengzhao5907]

Spectacular views！

[@LesleyAdina]

Thank you! The views along the Yangtze blew me away🙌🏻 Glad I was able to capture them for the vlog :)

[@francistango9171]

Hi nice show and nice environment in Yangtze river, have fun in China bye bye 😉✌️

[@LesleyAdina]

Thank you so much :) I really enjoyed traveling through China☺️

[@neohsoonpeng8820]

Thanks for sharing the Amazing scenery. ❤ frm Malaysia

[@LesleyAdina]

My pleasure☺️ Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment :)

[@thebigip]

Chinese viewer here. Wonder what made you make this China trip when many westerners do not travel to China? Glad that you like the trip and thanks for sharing! The cruise is much better than what I expected, maybe I could book it when I have spare time, thank you. You are warm and beautiful. I also appreciate your efforts both on the journey and on the video editing work. Best wishes!

[@LesleyAdina]

Thank you, I really appreciate your kind words! I was surprised myself with how much I enjoyed the cruise. We had about a week’s worth of a fairly busy itinerary behind us at that point so having a few days on the ship was nice for a change. I think the fact that China isn’t a country that is overly travelled to by Europeans and people from the US is one of the main reasons why I wanted to go and experience it myself :) And the country did not disappoint☺️

[@thebigip]

@@LesleyAdina It is more expensive to buy luxury bags in China, for the tariff on luxury goods is about 20%～50%(consuming tax and value added tax not included yet). That is why many Chinese ladies go to Hongkong and Paris to buy them. During the pandemic, with travelling blocked, many goes to a mall without tariff in Sanya of Hainan, China. This mall is located on a beautiful tropical beach, with many famous luxury hotels newly built nearby, worth a visit.

[@LesleyAdina]

Thank you so much for sharing! That is super interesting. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to squeeze Hongkong into my trip. Maybe next time :) I‘ll make sure to put Hainan on my bucket list as well.

[@thebigip]

@@LesleyAdina You are welcome. As my opinion, it not a pity not to go to Hongkong. Hongkong is famous for it used to be a trade and financial 'door' between China and the West, not for its natural beauty. After 2020, both USA and China seem care about Hongkong much less. USA seems leverage Singapore instead. However, China has given the same beneficial policies as Hongkong to Hainan since 2020. So from China's perspective, Hainan could be some kind of a big version of new 'Hongkong'. Hainan used to be poor and undeveloped, but now with all the new policies it is developing rapidly. Maybe it is hard for Hainan to perform better than Hongkong in just economy, for it is much bigger and not recognized by the USA and UK and it is far from mainland China, but there could be some coming competiton to Hongkong from Hainan one or some decades later. For now, some of the no-tariff luxury shopping from mainland China begins shift from Hongkong to Hainan. What is more, Hainan is way more beautiful than Hongkong. The city of Shenzhen, growing from a village to one of China's tech hub, is Hongkong's neighbouring city. Its GDP has passed that of Hongkong since 6 years ago, and it is more beautiful than Hongkong.

[@LesleyAdina]

Thank you so much for sharing!!

[@mokalfred7678]

Many thanks.

[@rosecolouredglasses]

My family took a Yangtze river cruise too back in the 90s (I guess on the same trip as Beijing). My ahem ahem personal translator (i.e. mother) told me that after the 3 gorges dam would be completed, cruise ships couldn't pass anymore, hmmm! That show about the Romance of the 3 Kingdoms looks amazing! What city was the show located?

[@LesleyAdina]

Oh wow, so you got to do a cruise before the river levels rising as a result of the dam? Must have looked wildly different! Just tried to look it up and apparently the show was in a city/area called “Dongxi Town, Zhongxian County”. Your mom might be right in the sense that I don’t think the cruise ships actually pass through the Dam’s ship lift. So for instance, there may not be a cruise that takes you from Chongqing all the way to Shanghai where the Yangtze flows into the sea. Don’t quote me though ;)

[@LesleyAdina]

Oh that’s lovely! For the most part, locals sold tea leaves, nuts and dried mushroom (?) at our anchor points. Might have been tempted by a non-edible souvenir but it didn’t seem like they sold things like that when we went

[@Scorpio-wk8bd]

Beautifully filmed - what a view going through the 3 gorges and the dam looked gigantic. Thank you once again for vlogging your amazing trip! 🤩

[@LesleyAdina]

The views really were spectacular! I’m glad I filmed the timelapse of us going through Qutang Gorge. So fascinating🙌🏻 Thank you for your support💗 I am so glad you enjoy the vlogs :)

[@tiangong-p7k]

三峡的景色太壮观了！节目很精彩！❤️👍😀

[@LesleyAdina]

The views were breathtaking🙌🏻🙌🏻 Thank you for watching☺️

[@AnthonyJose286]

Amazing 🤩🤩🤩

[@LesleyAdina]

Thank you so much🤗

[@zimuli3549]

真实的中国与西方主流媒体所描述的完全不同，欢迎你和更多的外国朋友来中国游览

[@LesleyAdina]

I definitely realized that! China is such a fascinating country and I am glad I got to experience it :)

[@erfanyu902]

Where are the artistic performances performed?

[@LesleyAdina]

I did not film the entire Romance of Three Kingdoms show. There were some artistic performances but it wasn’t the focus of the show. Hope that helps

[@max_dsouth9]

Cool video. Had you thought about hiking to the peak of the Three Gorges (kzbin.infoMSllXo-QEqU)?

[@LesleyAdina]

I did. In fact, that was one of the additional shore excursions that the ship offered for an upcharge. Didn’t end up booking it because of weather conditions (fog) that day.

[@Alex_k_Q]

NGL century cruise got better ships 😂😂

[@LesleyAdina]

I didn’t have a say in which cruise company we ended up going for but tbh, I was pleasantly surprised by our ship. No complaints :)