Chongqing travel guide

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Chongqing is stacked on cliffs where the Jialing meets the Yangtze, and is built so vertically that a street can be a rooftop. The monorail at Liziba runs straight through a block of flats.

Hongyadong's tiers of stilt houses are lit at night above the water. This is where hotpot comes from, and the numbing pepper is used without restraint. Wear shoes for stairs; there are thousands of them.

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Top 10 sights in Chongqing

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Three Gorges Museum
The Three Gorges Museum covers the culture of the Yangtze gorges and the history of the Ba and Shu. It stands opposite the Great Hall of the People on People's Square and is best seen with it.
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Luohan Temple
Luohan Temple is a thousand-year-old temple wedged among the downtown towers, whose five hundred arhat figures are its finest feature. Hongyadong and Jiefangbei are within walking distance.
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Chongqing Zoo
A zoo eight kilometres southwest of central Chongqing, opened in 1955 and best known for its giant pandas, which are among the more reliably visible in China outside Chengdu.
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St. Joseph's Cathedral, Chongqing
The cathedral of the archdiocese of Chongqing, on Luosidang Lane off Minsheng Road in the Yuzhong district. It has been under the administration of the Catholic Patriotic Association since 1957.
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Chongqing Art Museum
An art museum in the Yuzhong district of Chongqing in China, dealing chiefly with traditional Chinese painting, printmaking and small sculpture.
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Jiefangbei CBD
Jiefangbei, the liberation monument, stands at the centre of the busiest quarter of Chongqing. From the square between the skyscrapers, hotpot lanes and shopping run out in every direction.
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Chongqing Science and Technology Museum
A science museum in the Jiangbei district of Chongqing. Ground was broken on 7 January 2006, construction ran from October that year, and it opened on 9 September 2009.
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Ciyun Temple (Chongqing)
A Buddhist temple at the foot of Shizishan in the Nan'an district of Chongqing in China. Its name means the temple of the merciful cloud.
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Stilwell Museum
The Stilwell Museum preserves the residence of General Stilwell, the headquarters of Sino-American cooperation in the Second World War. It covers the years when Chongqing was the provisional capital.
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St. Thérèse of Lisieux Church, Chongqing
A Catholic church in Jiangbei first built in 1855 and destroyed and rebuilt several times under the Qing. Seized during the Cultural Revolution and returned late in the century, it was moved to its present site in 2008 and reopened for worship.
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Foreigners' Street
An amusement park and commercial district that stood northwest of Jiefangbei across the Yangtze in Chongqing. It gathered architecture, food and attractions from countries around the world onto a single site.
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Top 10 sights in Chongqing

Ranked by Wikipedia language editions — proven fame.

Three Gorges Museum

The Three Gorges Museum covers the culture of the Yangtze gorges and the history of the Ba and Shu. It stands opposite the Great Hall of the People on People's Square and is best seen with it.

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Luohan Temple

Luohan Temple is a thousand-year-old temple wedged among the downtown towers, whose five hundred arhat figures are its finest feature. Hongyadong and Jiefangbei are within walking distance.

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Chongqing Zoo

A zoo eight kilometres southwest of central Chongqing, opened in 1955 and best known for its giant pandas, which are among the more reliably visible in China outside Chengdu.

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St. Joseph's Cathedral, Chongqing

The cathedral of the archdiocese of Chongqing, on Luosidang Lane off Minsheng Road in the Yuzhong district. It has been under the administration of the Catholic Patriotic Association since 1957.

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Chongqing Art Museum

An art museum in the Yuzhong district of Chongqing in China, dealing chiefly with traditional Chinese painting, printmaking and small sculpture.

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Klook

Jiefangbei CBD

Jiefangbei, the liberation monument, stands at the centre of the busiest quarter of Chongqing. From the square between the skyscrapers, hotpot lanes and shopping run out in every direction.

Tiqets

Klook

Chongqing Science and Technology Museum

A science museum in the Jiangbei district of Chongqing. Ground was broken on 7 January 2006, construction ran from October that year, and it opened on 9 September 2009.

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Klook

Ciyun Temple (Chongqing)

A Buddhist temple at the foot of Shizishan in the Nan'an district of Chongqing in China. Its name means the temple of the merciful cloud.

Tiqets

Klook

Stilwell Museum

The Stilwell Museum preserves the residence of General Stilwell, the headquarters of Sino-American cooperation in the Second World War. It covers the years when Chongqing was the provisional capital.

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St. Thérèse of Lisieux Church, Chongqing

A Catholic church in Jiangbei first built in 1855 and destroyed and rebuilt several times under the Qing. Seized during the Cultural Revolution and returned late in the century, it was moved to its present site in 2008 and reopened for worship.

Tiqets

Klook

Trending now

Based on 2025 Wikipedia pageviews — popular places beyond the top 10.

Foreigners' Street

An amusement park and commercial district that stood northwest of Jiefangbei across the Yangtze in Chongqing. It gathered architecture, food and attractions from countries around the world onto a single site.

Tiqets

Klook