The Canton Tower is really tall. The Canton Tower is 600m tall and you can go to a viewing platform 433m above the ground. It is quite a staggering distance up. We have some photos to show how high we were.
Unfortunately the day we went up the tower, it was quite hazy and cloudy. Hence we couldn’t see very far. This seems fairly common in modern China. It does seem to defeat the purpose of building a really high tower if, from the top, you can’t see more than a few kilometres.
As you can appreciate from the photo, things on the ground are very small (and a long way away), but you can’t see much in the distance.
Just to give you an idea of how high we are, is this photo, Aiden is pointing to the Guangzhou International Finance Centre.
Where we are on the Canton Tower is about level with the top of that building. Now the Guangzhou International Finance Centre is amongst the top 10 tallest buildings in the world. The Canton Tower stretches for another 150+ metres above our viewing platform. As we said in the previous post, the Canton Tower is the second tallest freestanding structure in the world. It was a shame that the view from the top was so hazy.
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