Xiling Gorge (Xiling xia) is renowned for being extremely perilous. The gorge, 80 km long, is the longest of the Yangtze's Three Gorges stretching from Xiangxikuo in the east to Nanjingguan in the west and covering two prefectures in Hubei province.
It is at this spot, that the journey appears to be most perilous; the water is full of turbulent currents and whirlpools and dangerous shoals. At the end of the gorge, everyone crowds out onto the ship deck to watch the boat passing through the huge Gezhou Dam. [an error occurred while processing this directive]