The Original Yangtse Cruise

Most journeys through China involve many internal flights and changes of hotel, which naturally increase the cost and ‘hassle’ factor. The re-introduction of the full Yangtse cruise and a British Airways service direct to Shanghai now allow a journey through China with minimum change of accommodation and flying.

The Yangtse is the world’s third longest river, some 4000 miles east to west and known in China as Changjiang or ‘Long River’. Traditionally, river navigation was by small sampans, wupans and sailing junks which can still be seen today. Hankow, now part of Wuhan, inspired the famous Tea Races when clippers and later steamships sailed to the South China Sea, Singapore and on to London. The British connection with the Yangtse began when Lord Elgin sailed along the Yangtse to Wuhan. Archibald Little then established the first regular steamer service to Chongqing.

It is a curious fact, half a century after the city began its irreversible decline as a centre of entrepreneurial capitalism that the name ‘Shanghai’ is as arresting as ever, a byword for allure and intrigue. Bounded on the east by the Huangpu River, the city is dominated on one side by an imposing line of buildings in the grand European style, ‘The Bund’

VJV Special Event - Evening Entertainment
This includes an Acrobatic show, Tang Dynasty dinner show, Peking Opera performance and Peking Duck dinner.