Best Hotels in Shangri-La, Yunnan, China
Shangri-La, Yunnan, China — the town formerly called Zhongdian, renamed in 2001 to match the legend — sits at about 3,200 meters above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau edge…
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Gansu Cuisine Guide, China
Gansu is the thin, windswept province that stitches China to the Silk Road, and its food tells that story better than any museum. We have sent travelers here who expected…
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Xiamen Food Guide, China
Xiamen sits off China’s southeast coast, and its kitchen is one of the most approachable gateways into Fujian (Min) cuisine for foreign visitors. We have sent travelers here who came…
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Hong Kong Food Guide, Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong, China is one of the rare cities on earth where you can eat superbly at almost any hour and at almost any budget, from a HK$15 egg waffle…
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Koktokay Guide, Xinjiang, China
In the remote Altay region of northern Xinjiang, China, Koktokay (Keketuohai) is a geopark of granite peaks, birch forests, and the cold headwaters of the Irtysh River — a landscape…
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Longsheng Rice Terraces Guide, Guangxi, China
Carved into the steep hills of northern Guangxi, China over more than 600 years, the Longsheng Rice Terraces are among the most photographed landscapes in southern China — and for…
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Dabie Mountains Guide, Anhui, China
Straddling the border of Anhui, Hubei, and Henan, the Dabie Mountains are one of central China’s great green escapes — and the Jinzhai section in Anhui, China is its most…
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Sangke Grassland Guide, Gansu, China
Just outside the Tibetan town of Xiahe in Gannan, Gansu, China, the Sangke Grassland unfurls in wide green swaths where yaks graze and prayer flags snap in the wind. We…
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Tholing Monastery Guide, Tibet, China
Tucked into the barren, wind-scoured valley of the Sutlej River in far-western Tibet, China, Tholing Monastery is one of the most historically significant yet least-visited Buddhist sites in the Himalaya….
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Guge Kingdom Guide, Tibet, China
In the clay canyons of Zanda County, in the far west of Tibet, China, a ruined citadel clings to a vertical rock face and holds one of the plateau’s greatest…
