Yanji Travel Guide: Jilin’s Korean-Flavored Border City
Step off the train in Yanji and the first thing you notice is the signage: every shopfront, street sign and bus stop carries Korean script above the Chinese. This is…
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Tai’an Travel Guide: Gateway to Mount Tai, Shandong
Most travelers arrive in Tai’an for one reason: the mountain that rises straight out of the city’s northern edge. Mount Tai (Taishan) is the foremost of China’s Five Great Mountains,…
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Kangding Travel Guide: Sichuan’s Tibetan Gateway Town
This Kangding travel guide covers the mountain town where the Sichuan basin ends and the high plateau begins. Kangding sits at about 2,560 metres in Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in…
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Ili Travel Guide: Xinjiang, China’s Grassland and Apricot Valley
This Ili travel guide covers the greenest corner of Xinjiang, China — a wide river valley in the far northwest where the Tianshan opens toward Central Asia and catches enough…
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Korla Travel Guide: Xinjiang, China’s Pear Capital
This Korla travel guide introduces the greenest city in southern Xinjiang, China — a riverside oasis at the foot of the Tianshan where the Peacock River runs through the middle…
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Hami Travel Guide: Xinjiang, China’s Melon and Desert Town
This Hami travel guide covers the first real oasis you reach when you enter Xinjiang, China from the east. Hami — historically Kumul — sits where the Gobi ends and…
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Luoping Rapeseed Guide: Yunnan’s Sea of Yellow Canola Flowers
This Luoping rapeseed flower guide covers one of the most photogenic short trips in southwest China: a county in eastern Yunnan where, for about four weeks each late winter, roughly…
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Furong Ancient Town Guide: The Hanging Town by a Waterfall in Hunan
There are prettier old towns in China, but there is nothing quite like this one: a two-thousand-year-old Tujia settlement built directly on top of a sixty-metre waterfall, its wooden stilt…
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Dongting Lake Travel Guide: Hunan’s Great Lake and Yueyang Tower
This Dongting Lake travel guide covers the vast, shape-shifting body of water that dominates northern Hunan and has been shaping Chinese poetry, painting, and flood politics for two thousand years….
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Qikou Ancient Town Guide: Shanxi’s Yellow River Wharf
This Qikou ancient town guide is about one of the least-visited historic places in northern China: a stone-built river port clinging to the loess cliffs of Lin County, in the…
