Perched on a terraced hillside in Shuyang Town, Nanjing County, Zhangzhou, the Tianluokeng Tulou cluster is the most photographed earthen settlement in Fujian and one of the clearest expressions of…
Tucked into the hilly border where Henan meets Shanxi, Wangwu Mountain, Henan, is one of China’s oldest Taoist sacred peaks and the quiet hero of a famous fable. This is…
About 130 kilometers southwest of downtown Chongqing, Simian Mountain, Chongqing, is the city’s best answer to travelers who want falling water, red cliffs, and quiet lake boats instead of skyscrapers…
Rising above the haze of Chongqing’s southern suburbs, Jinfo Mountain, Chongqing, is the city’s only UNESCO World Heritage natural site and one of the best places in western China to…
A few kilometers northwest of Shexian town in Anhui, the Chengkan Ancient Village is the finest place in the Huizhou region to see a traditional settlement laid out by strict…
Hidden in the loess hills of Jiexiu, Shanxi, the Zhangbi Ancient Fortress is one of the most unusual surviving fortifications in northern China. Most foreign travelers know Pingyao, but few…
On the northern Loess Plateau, a few kilometers from the Yellow River where Shaanxi meets Shanxi across the water, a walled village has stood largely unchanged for four centuries. Dangjia…
In the rolling farmland of Lanxi, a county-level city administered by Jinhua in central Zhejiang, a walled village spreads across the plain in a pattern you will not find on…
Fifteen kilometers west of Suzhou’s classical gardens, where the canal country gives way to the low hills that fence the shore of Taihu, Tianping Mountain Suzhou rises a modest 201…
About 22 kilometers northeast of Nanjing’s Confucius Temple quarter, where the city thins into farmland and the Yangtze bends eastward, a wooded hill rises barely 280 meters above the plain….