Chongqing Travel Guides

Chongqing Travel Guides

The mountain city on the Yangtze: hotpot, historic streets, World Heritage rock carvings and quirky sights.

• Baidi City (White Emperor City) & Qutang Gorge Scenic Area (白帝城) — Baidi City stands on a hill at the mouth of Qutang Gorge on the north bank of the Yangtze, at the western entrance to the Three Gorges. It is where
• Baihuagu Tourism Resort (百花谷旅游度假区) — A flower-valley tourism and accommodation resort set in the hills of Heishan town in Wansheng, Chongqing, promoted as a local scenic getaway and summer
• Baisheng Wupi (Black-skin) Cherry Picking Base (巴南百胜乌皮樱桃基地) — A large U-pick cherry base in Baisheng village, Banan district, famous for its dark-skinned 'Wupi' (乌皮) cherries, drawing visitors in spring for fruit
• Beishan Rock Carvings (North Mountain) (北山摩崖石刻) — The Beishan (North Mountain) rock-carving site in Dazu district, the northern group of the UNESCO World Heritage Dazu Rock Carvings, with Buddhist cliff
• Beishan Rock Carvings (North Mountain) (北山摩崖造像) — The Beishan (North Mountain) rock carvings are one of the two main components of the Dazu Rock Carvings, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in Dazu
• Bolian Resorts & Hot Spring Chongqing (Bailian Hot Spring) (重庆柏联温泉（柏联酒店）) — The Chongqing property of the Bolian (柏联, romanized 'Bolian') hot-spring resort brand, marketed in English as 'Bolian Resorts & Hot Spring Chongqing.' It
• Chongqing Binjiang (Riverside) Park (重庆滨江公园) — A riverside park in Yuzhong district along the Yangtze riverfront (Changbin Road), part of Chongqing's 'Two Rivers, Four Banks' (两江四岸) riverfront greening
• Chongqing Hailai Huijing Resort Hotel (海来汇景) — A real resort hotel, the Chongqing Hailai Huijing Resort Hotel (重庆海来汇景度假酒店), located in Bishan District at Laifeng Street within a film-and-TV photography
• Chongqing Normal University (University Town Campus) (重庆师范大学大学城校区) — The main campus of Chongqing Normal University, a public comprehensive normal (teacher-training) university headquartered in the Shapingba University Town
• Chongqing North Railway Station South Square (重庆北站南广场) — The south forecourt of Chongqing North Railway Station (重庆北站), a major rail and transport hub in Yubei District. It is a real, functioning station square
• Chongqing Tianjiao Resort (重庆天骄度假村) — A real resort hotel (Chongqing Tianjiao Resort) in Qijiang District's Heishan Town, in the Heishan Valley (黑山谷) / Ordovician scenic resort area of
• Diaoyu City (Diaoyucheng Fortress) — Huguo Gate (钓鱼城护国门) — Diaoyu City is a 13th-century Song-dynasty mountain fortress on Diaoyu Mountain, standing on a peninsula where the Jialing, Qujiang and Fujiang rivers
• Dong Family Ancestral Hall (董家祠堂) — The Dong family ancestral hall in Gongtan Ancient Town, Youyang, part of the Gongtan ancient building group on the Wu River in a Tujia heritage area.
• Eat hotpot, ride the monorail-through-a-building, climb Hongyadong at night, then take a river cruise — Chongqing is best 'experienced' vertically: morning noodles, an afternoon on the light rail, dusk at Hongyadong, a hotpot bolted into a cliff — then a
• Feifeng Peak (Flying Phoenix Peak) (飞凤峰) — One of the celebrated Twelve Peaks of Wushan (巫山十二峰) on the Three Gorges' Wu Gorge in Wushan County, Chongqing. Like its sister peaks it is a steep scenic
• Fengdu Ghost City (Mingshan Scenic Area) (丰都鬼城) — Perched on Mingshan Mountain, Fengdu Ghost City is a 2,000-year-old complex billed as the 'Capital of Ghosts' in Chinese folk religion and Taoism. Its
• Former Residence of Lao She ('Four Generations Under One Roof' Memorial) (老舍故居/四世同堂纪念馆) — During the War of Resistance the novelist Lao She lived in Beibei, where he wrote much of his four-generation family saga 'Four Generations Under One
• Golden Turtle Facing the Sun (Jingu Chaoyang) Viewpoint (金龟朝阳 观景台) — The 'Golden Turtle Facing the Sun' (金龟朝阳) is a famous named rock formation and viewpoint on Jinfo Mountain in Nanchuan, with an observation deck (观景台) on
• Haiyu Hot Spring (Haiyu Hot Spring Grand Hotel) (海宇温泉) — A hot-spring hotel/resort in Beibei district, Chongqing, offering hot-spring bathing along with hotel and convention facilities.
• Halal is very doable in Chongqing; kosher is essentially absent in 2026 — Chongqing has a genuine halal scene around the Muslim community and Jiefangbei, but kosher food is effectively non-existent — if you keep strictly kosher,
• Hong'en Pavilion (鸿恩阁) — The landmark pavilion/tower 鸿恩阁 atop Hong'en Temple Forest Park (鸿恩寺森林公园) in Jiangbei District, Chongqing. It is regarded as one of the highest
• Honghai Scenic Area (Dashonghai/Xiaohonghai), Simianshan (洪海景区) — The Honghai (洪海) lake area within the Simianshan scenic area, comprising the large and small Honghai lakes (大洪海、小洪海), a high-mountain reservoir/lake
• Hotpot brasseries and cliffside dining — reserve Chongqing's famous spots a day ahead — Eating in Chongqing is a hotpot question first: nine-grid spicy pots define the city, with De Zhuang and Xiaoyu Hotpot the classic chains and Hongyadong
• Huangjuewan Interchange (Panlong Interchange) (黄桷湾立交（盘龙立交）) — A famously complex multi-level road interchange in Chongqing, nicknamed 盘龙立交 (Panlong Interchange), with around 20 ramps stacked across roughly 5 levels.
• Huangquan Road (Underworld Road), Fengdu Ghost City (黄泉路) — A famous themed passage within Fengdu's Ghost City (鬼城) scenic area, depicting the road to the Chinese underworld ('Yellow Springs' road). It is a
• International food lives in the malls and five-star towers — better than the 'hotpot only' reputation — Chongqing's international dining is real but concentrated: western, Japanese and pan-Asian restaurants cluster in the CBD malls (Jiefangbei, Guanyinqiao)
• Jiangjin Binjiang Road (Riverside Road) (江津滨江路) — A long riverside road and promenade along the Yangtze in Jiangjin District, locally promoted as the 'First Road of the Ten-Thousand-Li Yangtze' (万里长江第一路).
• Jinyun Dazhong (Public) Hot Spring (缙云大众温泉) — A hot-spring resort in the Beibei district of Chongqing, situated in the low-hills/hot-spring zone below Jinyun Mountain. It is one of the bathhouses in
• Jiufeng Yaochi (Jiufeng Mountain Pools) (九凤瑶池) — A series of colorful alpine pools on Jiufeng Mountain, nicknamed 'Chongqing's little Jiuzhaigou' (小九寨) and promoted as one of the scenic mountain spots
• Liangting Pass (凉亭关) — An ancient mountain pass in Bishan District, a real historical landmark that has been placed on the district's list of protected historical place names.
• Lion Peak (Shizifeng), Jinyun Mountain (狮子峰) — Lion Peak is one of the nine peaks of Jinyun Mountain (缙云山) and at about 864 m is a well-known summit viewpoint in Chongqing. Note that 'Lion Peak' (狮子峰)
• Liyu River (Carp River) Scenic Area (黑山鲤鱼河风景区) — The Liyu (Carp) River scenic area in the Heishan area of Wansheng, Chongqing, a river and valley area known for rafting (Liyu River rafting) and mountain
• Lu Zuofu Square (卢作孚广场) — A public memorial square in Hechuan District dedicated to Lu Zuofu, the pioneering Chinese industrialist of the Minsheng Shipping Company, born in
• Shangbang Hot Spring (Shangbang Pushi Hot Spring) (上邦温泉（上邦璞石温泉）) — A hot-spring resort centered on the Shangbang hot springs, one of the well-known hot springs in Jiulongpo District, marketed under names such as 上邦温泉,
• Shenlong Gorge (Shenlongxia) (神龙峡) — A scenic gorge in Nanchuan district, Chongqing, best known for its summer whitewater rafting (Shenlongxia rafting). It is a gorge and rafting scenic area,
• Sichuan International Studies University (四川外国语大学) — A real public university in Chongqing specializing in foreign languages and international studies (officially Sichuan International Studies University,
• Taigu Cave (太古洞) — A large karst (limestone) cave inside the Youyang 'Peach Blossom Spring' (Taohuayuan) scenic area. It is presented as the 'underground paradise' and a
• Taohuayuan Stele Forest (Peach Blossom Spring Stele Forest) (桃花源碑林) — A cluster of inscribed stone steles (碑林, 'stele forest') within the Youyang 'Peach Blossom Spring' scenic area, featuring stone engravings tied to the
• Three Friends Pavilion (三友亭) — A garden pavilion (亭) named 三友亭 in the Yuzhong District of Chongqing, listed as a scenic spot in local maps/directories. The name 'Three Friends'
• Tiansheng Sanqiao (Three Natural Bridges) Glass Observatory (天生三桥玻璃观景台) — The Three Natural Bridges (Tiansheng Sanqiao) at Wulong are giant natural karst stone bridges spanning a vast sinkhole, part of the Wulong Karst World
• Tomb of General Zhang Zizhong (Martyrs' Cemetery) (张自忠将军墓) — General Zhang Zizhong, China's highest-ranking officer killed in action during the War of Resistance against Japan (1940), is buried in a martyrs'
• Tuogu Hall (Hall of the Entrusted Orphan) (托孤堂) — A memorial hall at Baidicheng in Fengjie county on the Yangtze, commemorating the Three Kingdoms event of Liu Bei entrusting his son to Zhuge Liang
• Wanjuan Shutai Scenic Area (万卷书台) — A scenic area in Sanquan Town, Nanchuan District, named for stacked stone formations that resemble 'a platform of ten thousand scrolls of books' (万卷书台).
• Where to sleep: Jiefangbei skyline stays, river-view lofts and Hongyadong's cliffside glamour — Chongqing is a vertical city where the view is the amenity: stay high on the Yuzhong Peninsula around Jiefangbei (Liberation Monument) and Hongyadong for
• Xinjing Hot Spring (Xinjing Jinyun International Hot Spring Resort) (心景温泉) — A hot-spring resort/spa, known as the Xinjing Jinyun International Hot Spring Resort and sold as a ticketed 'Xinjing Hot Spring' attraction in Beibei,
• Yinghua Juxiang (Cherry Blossom & Mandarin Orange Town) (樱花橘乡) — An agricultural village/park in Beibei, Chongqing combining cherry-blossom flower viewing with a mandarin-orange (ju) orchard landscape; locally promoted
• Zhongshan Fourth Road (中山四路) — Zhongshan Fourth Road is a shaded, historically resonant street in Yuzhong District, famously dubbed 'the most beautiful street in Chongqing' thanks to
• Zhou Gong Mansion (Zhou Enlai's Former Residence) (周公馆) — A mid-republic-era courtyard house at Zengjiayan No.50 on Zhongshan 4th Road, which served as the main wartime office of the Southern Bureau of the CPC

Last updated: September 2026.