This long and winding highway in China is popular with tourists today

One of the writer’s travel buddies showing the nine bends and 72 turns on the G318 highway. Different areas of the route have different sceneries and landscapes, including cliffs and rivers. — Photos: LEESAN

For the past five years, an “ordinary” highway in China has emerged as a super popular route, thanks to the power of the Little Red Book and TikTok, prompting countless of people to traverse the entire length of the road as tourists.

What’s even more incredible is that most of China’s 1.4 billion people think that the route – G318 – is the one highway that they must conquer at least once before they die.