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France is blessed with an astonishing variety of landscapes: long, high dunes on the Atlantic Coast; craggy coves in Brittany; vineyards in Burgundy; steep gorges in the Tarn; olive trees and vineyards, umbrella pines and cypresses in Provence; and lazy beaches in the Côte d’Azur.
Just a short walk away, however, you’re among the green, peaceful rice terraces and jungle-filled river gorges that have captivated Bali’s visitors for decades and are so much a part of the region’s legendary mystique.
In 1992 the National People’s Congress passed a resolution to launch the massive Three Gorges Hydropower Project, including the construction of a huge dam and a reservoir, slated for completion sometime after the year 2009, which will submerge the most scenic sections of the river.
The leisurely three-hour ride passes through steep gorges, narrow terraced rice paddies, and neatly tailored tea plantations hugging the mountain slopes with not a square inch of usable land wasted.
The retreat ended in 1938 with the Nationalist government dug in behind the gorges of the Yangzi River, in the last-ditch capital of Chongqing.