Highways, the foundation of a country's land transportation, play a vital role in the country's development and people's lives. The mainland is vast, and towns, villages, mountains and rivers are connected by numerous highways. The following ten highways are known as the top ten most beautiful highways in the mainland, and you can see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland at a glance when navigating them.
10. Taihang hanging wall highway
The Taihang Mountain Hanging Wall Highway is the most thrilling and magnificent mountain road in China. In the 800 miles of towering Taihang, there are seven hanging wall highways in total, the amount of work is large, the duration is long, the scenery is magnificent, it is rare. From a distance, it is majestic and shocking, and looking out through the side window, it is a window and a scene, the landscape is picturesque and beautiful. Hanging Wall Highway and Taihang Tianlu have been evaluated by netizens as "beautiful and suffocating, you must walk once in this life", and have become one of the most popular self-driving destinations for self-driving enthusiasts across the country.
9. Qinggan Grand Ring Road
The Qinggan Grand Ring Road, connecting Qinghai and Gansu, is 2,800 kilometers long, including Qinghai Lake, Taer Temple, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang and other famous scenic spots along the way, and every scenery is unforgettable. Because of the magnificent scenery and profound cultural heritage of the scenic spots it passes through, the Qinggan Grand Ring Road is regarded as one of the first choices for tourism in Northwest China.
8. Hainan East Line Tourist Highway
Hainan East Line Tourist Highway, which concentrates the essence of Hainan humanities and scenery, is known as China's California No. 1 Highway, north from Haikou, Wenchang, Qionghai, Boao, Wanning, Lingshui to Sanya, up to more than 400 kilometers.
7. Tangbo Ancient Road
The Tangbo Ancient Road, also known as the "Tangbo Road" and "Tubo Post Road", is about 3,000 kilometers long, from Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty to Lhasa, Tibet, through the Tubo Plateau, through the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau, with beautiful scenery and profound historical heritage, known as the South Silk Road.
6, Yaxi Highway
The 240-kilometer-long Iaxi Expressway, which runs from Ya'an in Sichuan Province to Xichang, hovers over the mountains, spans 270 bridges and 25 tunnels, and rises from 600 meters to 3,200 meters above sea level. Passing through the western Sichuan Plateau and the Hengduan Mountains, the scenery along the way is magnificent and shocking.
5. Grassland Highway
The grassland highway, spanning Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi, with a total length of 1,000 kilometers, is a landscape avenue between the two provinces. This is a route that walks all over the grassland, with deserts, grasslands, stone forests and the highest peak of the Great Khing'an Mountains, which is an ideal place for tourists to drive.
4. Suhua Highway
Suhua Highway is located on the east coast of Taiwan, starting from Suao Town, Yilan County, and ending in Hualien City, with a total distance of 118 kilometers. This highway is built along the coastline, with views of the Pacific Ocean and cliffs and mountains along the way, and is known as a world-famous scenic highway.
3. Tarim Desert Highway
The Tarim Desert Highway, located in the center of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, is about 1,200 kilometers long, making it the longest desert highway in the world. The road passes through the Taklamakan Desert and has unique scenery along the way, which has been the center of the ancient Silk Road since ancient times, including desert landscapes, oases and southern Xinjiang cuisine, and cultural relics of 36 countries in the Western Regions, making it one of the destinations for many tourists.
2. 318 Sichuan-Tibet line
The 318 Sichuan-Tibet Line, with a total length of about 2,000 kilometers, runs from Chengdu to Lhasa, crosses Sichuan and Tibet, passes through Gongga Snow Mountain, Ranwu Lake, Nyingchi Taohuagou and many other famous landscapes, all showing the magnificence of nature, known as "China's most beautiful landscape avenue" and "Chinese's landscape avenue", which is a classic choice for self-driving travel.
1. Duku Highway
The Duku Highway, which connects Aksu and Kuqa in Xinjiang, has a total length of 1,200 kilometers and is known as the "Chinese version of the Markansky curve". The Duku Highway passes through the Tianshan Mountains, with unique scenery along the way, and beautiful scenery throughout the year, showing the magnificent wonders of "four seasons in one day, ten miles of different days" to the majority of off-road enthusiasts and self-driving tourists.