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Detian Waterfall is a thundering, multi-tiered cascade on the Guichun River in Chongzuo, Guangxi, China, right on the country’s border with Vietnam — the largest transnational waterfall in Asia and…

Beihai is a laid-back coastal city in southern Guangxi, China, best known for its sweeping Silver Beach, a colonial-era Old Street, and the ferries that depart from its port to…

Weizhou Island is a volcanic island in the Beibu Gulf off the coast of Beihai, in Guangxi, China — a sun-warmed escape of black lava shores, coral-sand beaches, and a…

Yuanyang, in southern Yunnan’s Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, is home to the famous Hani Rice Terraces — a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of cascading, mirror-like paddies carved into…

Jianshui is a remarkably preserved ancient county town in southern Yunnan’s Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, a place where cobbled lanes, Qing-dynasty residences, and a Confucian temple of national…

Mile, a small city in the east of China’s Yunnan Province between Kunming and the Honghe rice terraces, is an unhurried surprise: a place of warm mineral springs, rolling vineyards,…

Pu’er, in the south of China’s Yunnan Province, is the namesake of the dark, aged tea that travels the world — but the city itself is a quiet green base…

Xishuangbanna, in the far south of China’s Yunnan Province against the borders of Laos and Myanmar, is a slice of Southeast Asia inside China — a land of rainforest, Buddhist…

Wuyishan, in the northern mountains of China’s Fujian Province, is where the Nine Bend River twists between rust-red danxia cliffs and terraced tea gardens that produce the famous rock tea…

Tengchong, a sleepy county-level city in the far west of China’s Yunnan Province, sits on the edge of the Himalayan tectonic belt where volcanic heat still rises close to the…