About this place

The famously serpentine Nanshan mountain road, aggressively switchbacking upward through a series of tight hairpin turns to connect the low riverbank directly with the mountain peaks above.

Drifter says

"Don't just take a taxi to the top — walk the dedicated pedestrian path alongside the road. Each hairpin turn framed against the dense, slightly haze-softened city skyline below creates layered compositions of remarkable depth. Your legs will feel it afterward, but the photographs..."

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