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We once spent a July evening on Daming Lake with no plan except to watch the lotus open at dusk, and it turned into the most relaxing three hours of…

On our last trip to Jinan we arrived at Baotu Spring at opening time, and the three jets were already throwing water a meter into the air while elderly locals…

We first took a client to Cangyan Mountain on a whim between Beijing and Shijiazhuang, expecting a minor temple hill — and both of us fell silent when we stepped…

The first time we drove the Golmud-to-Tibet road with a client, we stopped at the Kunlun Mountain Pass just long enough for photographs before the wind drove everyone back into…

When we last visited Xuedou Mountain in late April, the morning mist had not yet lifted off the gorge below Qianzhangyan, and the only sounds were the rush of the…

Changdao (长岛), the island chain off the north coast of Yantai in Shandong, is one of those places Chinese travelers know and foreign ones almost don’t. The islands sit in…

Xingkai Lake (兴凯湖) straddles the border between China and Russia, with the Chinese shoreline in Heilongjiang province, near the city of Mishan (密山) and the Jixi region. Russians know the…

Bosten Lake (博斯腾湖) sits in the south of Xinjiang, China, about 57 km northeast of Korla, and it holds a title that surprises first-time visitors: it is the largest inland…

Xiqiao Mountain (西樵山) rises out of the flat Pearl River Delta about 30 km southwest of central Guangzhou, in Nanhai District, Foshan. We started sending clients there as a Guangzhou…

Ge Garden (个园) sits just off Yangzhou’s Yanfu East Road, a few hundred meters from the east end of Dongguan Street. We’ve sent clients there on every Yangzhou itinerary we…