Master of the Nets Garden Guide: Suzhou’s Smallest, Most Refined Garden
We’ve walked Suzhou’s classical gardens with clients hundreds of times, and the one we keep sending people to is also the one many skip: the Master of the Nets Garden…
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Panjiakou Guide: The Underwater Great Wall Drowned by a Reservoir
We’ve taken photographers and history buffs to Panjiakou (潘家口) for years, and there’s nothing else quite like it in China: a Ming-dynasty stretch of the Great Wall that was deliberately…
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Tianmen Travel Guide: Hubei’s Tea-Brick Heritage and Stone-Qin Lake
We’ve been guiding travelers through Hubei’s lesser cities for years, and Tianmen (天门) is a sleeper: most people blow through on the train between Wuhan and Yichang without realizing they’re…
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Dongfang Travel Guide: Hainan’s West Coast and Li Ethnic Heritage
We’ve sent clients to every corner of Hainan, and the county-level city of Dongfang (东方) on the island’s dry west coast is the one we recommend to travelers who’ve already…
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Xiantao Travel Guide: Hubei’s Lotus Lake Town and Folk Opera
We’ve been routing travelers through Hubei’s Yangtze corridor for more than a decade, and the county-level city of Xiantao (仙桃) is one of those places that almost never shows up…
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Qianjiang Travel Guide: Hubei’s Crayfish Capital and Water Town
If you ask a Chinese food lover to name the country’s crayfish capital, almost everyone says the same word: Qianjiang. This compact city in the Jianghan Plain of Hubei province,…
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Luohe Travel Guide: Henan’s Shahe River Town and Neolithic Park
Luohe rarely appears on foreign itineraries, and that is precisely why we like sending curious travelers there. Sitting almost dead-center in Henan province, where the Shahe and Lihe rivers meet,…
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Zhumadian Travel Guide: Chaya Mountain and the Heart of Henan
Most foreign visitors to Henan rush between the marquee names — the Shaolin Temple, the Longmen Grottoes, the old capital of Luoyang — and treat the rest of the province…
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Ulanhot Travel Guide: Inner Mongolia’s First Capital and Grassland Heritage
Most visitors to Inner Mongolia fly into Hohhot, rush to the Hulunbuir grasslands in the far northeast, and never glance at the eastern end of the region. That is a…
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Kizilsu Travel Guide: Xinjiang, China’s Pamir Foothills and Karakul Lake
Most foreign travelers who come to Xinjiang, China fly into Urumqi or Kashgar and never push farther west than the old city walls of Kashgar. That is a mistake. About…
