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Hebi is a small industrial city in northern Henan that most foreign travellers skip on the way to Luoyang or Xi’an. We keep it on a short list for travellers…

Bengbu is a mid-size city in northern Anhui on the Huaihe River, and it is one of those places that rarely appears on foreign itineraries. We put it on a…

When travellers ask us for a Beijing day trip that isn’t the Forbidden City, we often point west to Mentougou. This Beijing Mentougou travel guide covers a district on the…

Tacheng, in Xinjiang, China, is a border prefecture in the far northwest that most foreign visitors have never heard of. We send travellers there when they want a corner of…

Most foreign travellers who reach Qinghai stop at Qinghai Lake and leave. We keep sending a different kind of visitor further west to Delingha, a small prefecture-level city on the…

If your image of Inner Mongolia is an endless sea of grass under an enormous sky, a Xilingol travel guide should simply say: yes, and here it is. Xilingol League,…

When most foreign travelers picture Inner Mongolia, they picture endless grassland and galloping horses. A proper Bayannur travel guide should start with a gentle correction: Bayannur, in the west of…

Most visitors meet Sichuan through pandas, pandas’ bamboo, and a bowl of numbingly hot hotpot, and there is nothing wrong with that. But a proper Jianmen travel guide should point…

Most foreign travelers who land in Hubei never leave the Wuhan bubble, and honestly Wuhan deserves the attention. But a proper Ezhou travel guide should correct that blind spot, because…

Most first-time visitors to Northeast China build their itinerary around Shenyang, Harbin, and Dalian, and they are not wrong to do so. But if you are the kind of traveler…