Chongqing Yangrenji
Yangrenjie (literally, “Foreigners’ Street) is a serious attempt by Chongqing conglomerate, Meixin Group, at light-hearted fun. Among the weird and wonderful are an upside-down house, a copy of the Great Wall and a house with its top blown off. Apart from this, Yangrenjie appears as an attempt at creating another Disney Land complete with canals a la Venice, Tudor-style houses, Korean and Japanese villages and even a church with a wedding banquet hall beside and a stretch limo for rent.
The park is “famed” for a number of risqué sculptures, such as a row of bronzed nude ladies facing the wall, urinals in the shape of nun’s habits and wash basins fashioned as female figures bending over. It also has the dubious honor of having a record-breaking restroom with 1,000 toilets.
Get your shoes shined while sitting on a “throne”, fish in a man-made lake and or sip tea by the Yangtze. Besides walking, modes of transportation include European-style horse-drawn carriages, open roof buses and even a stiletto on wheels. Should Yangrenjie prove too loud for your liking, a stroll along the 2.8km stretch of the Yangtze goes a long way to calm ruffled spirits.
Add: Danzhishi, Nan’an District, Chongqing



