About this place

A slender Qing Dynasty Daoist pagoda perched on a sharp Nanshan peak, historically serving as a navigation beacon for Yangtze River ships — now almost entirely forgotten within the mountain's dense forest.

Drifter says

"Skip the crowded, ticketed One Tree Observatory and climb here instead. The path is steep, uneven and completely uncommercial. Sit at the base of the ancient tower and watch the sun slowly turn the Yangtze gold — with no one else around. The stillness and solitude this place offe..."

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