This is the Yaxi Expressway in southwest China’s Sichuan province. It features some of the highest and longest bridges in the world.

Here’s a little article about it: https://themindcircle.com/yaxi-expressway-traversing-the-clouds/

Side note: am i the only one who finds this crazy scary to look at? I’m sure it’s awesome driving on it, but looking at it from afar it looks wild.

  • Lyrl@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Western countries do stuff like this, too. Engineering is amazing the world 'round.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_Viaduct

    The Millau Viaduct is a multispan cable-stayed bridge completed in 2004 across the gorge valley of the Tarn… in Southern France… As of October 2023, it is the tallest bridge in the world, having a structural height of 343 metres (1,125 ft).

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, Millau is very impressive too. It’s also very pretty to look at. The thing about China though is that it builds a lot of these things. Like just look at a list of the world’s highest bridges and viaducts and you’ll see China massively overrepresented, especially at toward the top: https://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_Highest_International_Bridges%2FPage_1

      So yeah, this sort of thing happens in the West also, but it’s not super common, so when it does it feels really special. The Millau viaduct is fairly famous here in Europe. In China it feels like the country is full of this type of infrastructure, so to Chinese people it must feel almost banal.