AT#971 - Yangtze River Cruise in China

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode of Amateur Traveler, Chris takes you along on a Yangtze River cruise from Yichang to Chongqing, an upstream journey through China’s legendary Three Gorges. Along the way, you’ll hear about naked trackers of old, a poet whose death inspired a festival celebrated across China, engineering marvels, hanging coffins, misty karst cliffs, and the modern rhythms of cruise life on the Victoria Sabrina, a ship from Victoria Cruises. This week's show is supported by the new Smart Travel Podcast. Travel smarter — and spend less — with help from NerdWallet. Check out Smart Travel ⁠⁠⁠⁠here. My thanks to Victoria Cruise Lines for treating me like a VIP, including an upgraded cabin, shore excursions, and the upgrade package with access to the Sabrina Lounge. What You’ll Experience ... https://amateurtraveler.com/yangtze-river-cruise/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of the Amateur Traveler podcast is sponsored by Smart Travel, a new podcast from NerdWallet.
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0:25.8	optimize you into a six-hour layover, how to survive and even save on holiday travel, even
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0:39.4	living at Gate C-23. And smart travel does that all with a little bit of humor and a lot of travel
0:46.2	smarts. I am not the expert on these kind of questions, and one of the places I go to find my answers
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1:01.7	And thanks to Smart Travel and NerdWallet for sponsoring this episode of Amateur Traveler.
1:07.4	This is Chris Christensen from the Amateur Traveler podcast.
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1:47.6	Today, Amateur Traveler talks about trackers and poets, dams and locks, macaques, caves,
1:55.3	and three gorges, as we cruise the Yangtze River in China.
2:01.0	This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler.
2:03.6	Let's talk about the Yangtzee.
2:08.0	This is another solo episode of The Amateur Traveler talking about my cruise that I went on in China recently.
2:16.1	I was in China for a wedding, a wedding of an international student from Shanghai,
2:20.7	who lived with us for a year and a half, and her husband lived with us also for half a year.
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