Seda Travel Guide: Sichuan’s Crimson Tibetan Academy
Our Seda travel guide takes you to a remote valley in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China, where a hillside is covered with thousands of small crimson wooden…
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Mingshi Pastoral Guide: Chongzuo’s Karst Painting
The Mingshi pastoral area in Chongzuo, Guangxi, China is a quiet masterpiece of southern karst: a narrow river winding between rounded limestone peaks, rimmed by emerald rice paddies and bamboo…
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Linxia Travel Guide: Gansu’s Little Mecca of Mosques
This Linxia travel guide introduces a city that surprises most first-time visitors to Gansu, China: a low-rise river town of domes, minarets, and bustling halal food streets, often nicknamed “Gansu’s…
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Langmusi Guide: The Tibetan Town Between Two Provinces
Langmusi is a small Tibetan town in Gansu, China that straddles the border with Sichuan Province, split by the clear Bailong River into a Gansu side and a Sichuan side….
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Zhagana Guide: Gannan’s Stone Fortress Fairyland
Tucked into the mountains of Diebu County in Gansu, China, Zhagana village is a terraced Tibetan settlement wrapped by towering grey stone peaks that locals call a “stone fortress fairyland.”…
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Gannan Travel Guide: Tibetan Plateau’s Hidden Monasteries
This Gannan travel guide is for travelers who want to see a different side of China — rolling highland grasslands, golden-roofed monasteries, and Tibetan culture in Gansu, China, far from…
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Kuqa Grand Canyon Guide: Xinjiang’s Red Sandstone Maze
The Kuqa Grand Canyon (库车大峡谷), also called the Tianshan Mysterious Grand Canyon, is a winding labyrinth of red sandstone walls in Kuqa, Aksu Prefecture, in the south of Xinjiang, China….
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Keketuohai Guide: Xinjiang’s Granite Peaks and Autumn Birch
Keketuohai (可可托海, also spelled Koktokay) is a dramatic river-gorge national geological park in Fuyun County, Altay Prefecture, in the north of Xinjiang, China. Here the Ertix (Irtysh) River has carved…
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Baihaba Village Guide: China’s Most Beautiful Border Hamlet
Baihaba village is a peaceful hamlet of log cabins and golden birch trees sitting right on the China–Kazakhstan border, inside the Kanas scenic area of Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. Often…
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Qiongkushitai Guide: Xinjiang’s Off-Grid Kazakh Village
Qiongkushitai is a remote Kazakh village of timber houses and grazing horses tucked into a green valley of Tekes County, in the Yili region of Xinjiang, China. Far from the…
