| Angling City |
Angling City (diaoyu cheng), located on the Angling Mountain overlooking the Jialing River, is a city filled with legend.The mountain here contains a gargantuan rock, where it is said that an immortal being once fished to relieve the local folks of famine...
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| People's Great Hall |
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Situated on Renmin Lu-Chongqing, the People's Great Hall (renmin dahuitang), which was completed in April 1954, is an example of typical Chongqing architecture. Covering an area of 18500 square meters, this five-story rotunda is 65m high and 46m in diameter, spacious enough to hold ...
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| Ba Yu Culture Village |
The Folk Culture and Custom Village of the Ba and Yu peoples (bayu wenhuacun), is located on the Lianglu Town of Yubei District - Chonagqing. Although it is a slightly nag idea, there are a few places worth visiting here. The museum here displays 1,000 different type of Chinese folk handicraft, costumes and decorations... |
| Baoding Mountain |
Baoding Mountain (baoding shan), is renowned for the examples of stone carving that exist in the grottoes here.This is a Buddhist Mountain and held in high regard by local practicing monks in the area.Backpacking in China is a hard game due to the cultural difference and language ... |
| Chaotian Gate |
Situated at the junction of the Yangtze and Jialing River in the northeast of Chongqing, the Chaotian Gate (chaotianmen) overlooks the two rivers and is surrounded by crags on three sides. The newly built Chaotian Gate Square is the best place in Chongqing to get an undisturbed view of the landscape here. Jialing River... |
| Wansheng Stone Forest |
Located 165km from downtown Chongqing, Wansheng Stone Forest (wansheng shilin) is the oldest (formed during the Ordovician epoch) and the second largest stone forest (the largest one is in Guilin) in China... |
| Jinfo Nature Reserve |
Chongqing is primarily an industrial city and it can be pleasant to escape the smog and crowds and head to the only nature reserve in the area. The Jinfo Nature Reserve (jinfoshan ziran baohuqu), is situated amidst huge lush mountains, with one third of the area here covered by virgin forest. Most impressive ... |
| Beishan Hill Grotto |
Located about two kilometers north of Dazu county-Chongqing, Beishan Hill Grotto (beishan shiku) boasts almost ten thousand sculptures first built here in 892 AD and gradually added over the years. At one spot up here, Fowan, there are some 290 grottoes filled with impressive stone sculptures...
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