The Chinese Sky Road Built on a Precarious Mountain Ridge

If you don’t like heights, don’t press play.  Yet do. This sky road in China not only gives visitors the opportunity to take in some breath-taking nature, but the aerial footage here allows us to experience it from even higher up than it is already.  The forested mountains which Daobeiliang Highway in Shizhu County, Chongqing crosses are staggeringly beautiful and the presence of wind turbines among the clouds is something of a surprise (but the winds must pick up quite a speed up there, so it does make sense).  Often called a “Heaven Road” by the locals, you will soon see why!

The engineering is a marvel, the Qiyao mountain landscape breath-taking.  Those cliffs look huge, and I find it difficult to imagine how the road was built  - I certainly don’t think I would have liked to be one of the construction workers (although for those who love heights, this would have been the job of a lifetime). So take a trip along this sky road.  You will either want to be there or be happy that you’re not.  I don’t think there is an inbetween, to be honest!

The City with the Largest Population in the World: Welcome to Chongqing

Chongqing: if you are not from Asia or a geography enthusiast, the name may not mean a great deal to you.  However, this city in southwestern China now boasts the largest urban population in the world – and it has an infrastructure and architecture that clearly demonstrate that… an awful lot of people live there.  In fact, the figure currently stands at 32,054,159. (picture credit)

That is quite a number.