Xiamen Seafood Guide: Where to Eat the Freshest Catch in Fujian
Xiamen seafood is the reason many travelers extend their Fujian trip by an extra day, and in our experience the city’s coastal position gives it a catch you simply do…
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Fayuan Temple Beijing Guide: The Capital’s Oldest Buddhist Sanctuary
Fayuan Temple Beijing is the oldest working Buddhist monastery in the capital, a quiet warren of courtyards, peony beds, and incense smoke hidden in the hutongs just southwest of the…
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Nanputuo Temple Xiamen Guide: Sea-Facing Serenity in Fujian
The Nanputuo Temple Xiamen sits at the foot of Wulao Peak with its back to the hills and its face toward the sea, a working Buddhist monastery where the vegetarian…
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Sun and Moon Pagodas Guilin Guide: Lakeside Lights of Guangxi
The Sun and Moon Pagodas Guilin are a pair of illuminated towers rising from the middle of Shanhu Lake in the heart of the city, and they are the easiest…
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Mu Residence Lijiang Guide: The Former Palace of the Naxi Kings
The Mu Residence Lijiang is the former palace of the Mu clan, the Naxi chieftains who ruled this corner of Yunnan for twenty-two generations across roughly 470 years, and it…
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Banpo Museum Xi’an Guide: Discover Neolithic China
The Banpo Museum Xi’an is the place to stand on a wooden walkway above a six-thousand-year-old village and look down at the round and square pit houses where one of…
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Jade Buddha Temple Shanghai Guide: Serenity Among Skyscrapers
The Jade Buddha Temple Shanghai is one of the few working monasteries inside a Chinese megacity where you can stand three meters from a two-meter-tall statue carved from a single…
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Hefang Street Hangzhou Guide: Snacks and Heritage in Old Hangzhou
Hangzhou is sold to the world as a lake city, and West Lake earns the praise, but the place that actually puts the old commercial and culinary Hangzhou under your…
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Pingjiang Road Suzhou Guide: Canals, Lanes and Old Suzhou
If Suzhou is famous as the city of gardens, the place that actually lets you walk inside the old water-town texture the gardens were built to echo is Pingjiang Road…
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Zhonghua Gate Nanjing Guide: Walk the Ming-Era Citadel
Nanjing wears its history heavier than most Chinese cities, and the single best place to feel the weight of its imperial past is Zhonghua Gate Nanjing, the colossal southern gate…
