By Eric Vandenbroeck and co-workers

Visiting Baixiangju.

Upon closer look, what appears to be its ground-level main entrance is the 11th floor of the closest building.

There are no lifts in the complex, only staircases.

While mountains and rivers are part of the distinctive landscape of the south-western municipality, a cable car goes across the Yangtze River Cableway, above the Yangtze River, in Chongqing’s Yuzhong district.

Following is Kuixinglou, an ancient temple that now houses a hospital and tourist shops. Visitors may think they are on the ground floor when they arrive at the medical facility. But two short bridges connect the facility to the 22nd story of another building, housing mainly hotels.

Below, people dressed in hanfu (traditional Chinese attire) walk at the touristy Hongyadong Folk Custom Scene Area in Chongqing.

It is Chongqing’s old-school charm and incredible architecture that leave the strongest impression.

 

 

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