Chongqing is a city built vertically — towers rising off cliffs between the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, roads that pass over rooftops, a monorail that glides through the middle of an apartment block. China's "mountain city" is also its fog capital and its self-declared hotpot capital: a loud, humid, wildly atmospheric place where the night view earns comparisons to Hong Kong and the cooking earns comparisons to nothing else.

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You have read the free preview — the introduction and the route map. The complete handbook adds the day-by-day plan, tickets and transport, culture and etiquette, food, useful Chinese, and the dated source list.
