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Buying a ticket for the cruise down the Yangzi was like buying a lottery ticket. There are some very expensive luxury boats but amongst the several ordinary boats leaving Chongqing every day, some are new, some are old, some are clean and some are not. The central booking agency in the Chaotianmen terminal showed me nice pictures of a relatively new boat but the Guo Hua was old and the toilets were so filthy that I had to hold my breath not to throw up. It was not my lucky day. That, and the miserable weather put me in a foul mood and made for a bad start on a cruise I had been dreaming of for a long time.
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