We board a smaller boat for the Lesser Three Gorges cruise.
Here you can see the markers they have for the change in the river height once the Yangtze dam is completed in 2009 and the water level will raise from 153 meters to 175.
The cruise lasted about 1.5 hours and then we had lunch in an outdoor pavilion. Vendors were selling whole small cooked birds on sticks, luckily this was not part of our lunch.