XiaoLangDi Dam

Nimon Hao!
     For those of you who have been following along, you've seen some pictures of XiaoLangDi (小浪底) Dam, from the middle of an epically long bike ride.  Every year, for ten day the government opens up the flood gates to simulate the annual flooding of the Yellow River.  Han and I took a drive to see this once a year occurrence.

Here's the overview of the dam

With some pretty good advice

The flood gates from afar

The dam is definitely in the middle of the countryside

The mix of a drought and open gates, the reservoir is well below the normal level

Here's an access tunnel to the Hydroelectric plant in the dam

XiaoLangDi from below

Some of the pools in the "After Dam Ecological Park"

The path through the bamboo

Unoccupied path

not all of the park was ready for the increase in the down river water level, this sidewalk washed out

The weeping willows of XaioLangDi

At the flood gates

Me, at the flood gates

 Here's the view

The collection of statue tributes to the various companies that helped with construction

the cable bridge

The crossing of the cable bridge... very shaky

Han on the bridge

A view of the flood gates from down river

From the middle of the river

From the opposite bank of the Yellow River

You can see the statues form this side of the river

The center piece of the statues

The cliff side of XaioLangDi

Me, driving a huge earth mover...

And now I leave you with Chinese cocktail wieners ... 好吃

Zaijian