Three Gorges Dam Ship Locks

I just thought this was such an amazing part of the trip.  My pictures don't really tell the story.  The locks got us from 175 M water level down to 90M, through 5 locks.  If you don't know how this works, you can probably find it somewhere online.  Or I can explain.  But it's neat.  To watch from inside the ship.  And it would've been cool to be able to watch from the top, outside, but they didn't let us hang around the "museum" long enough for that.

This is a view overlooking one of the lock chambers with ships, from above.

Another aerial view.

A bad picture.  But it gives some idea of what it looks like to be in the locks on a ship.  Taken from the balcony of my cabin.

Camera just didn't do well in the locks.  An attempt to show the water level dropping.  The white band is a marker with water levels indicated.  The wall is wet where the water was.