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Perched at about 3,700 meters in the mountains above Kangding, Mugecuo Lake is the largest alpine lake in the Jiajing region of Sichuan and one of the quietest high-altitude escapes…

Stretching roughly 400 kilometers along the northern bend of the Yellow River, the Kubuqi Desert is the seventh largest desert in China and the closest true sand sea to Beijing….

Tengger Desert travel opens a different side of China: a vast sand sea where golden dunes roll to the horizon and unexpected freshwater lakes glitter between them. The name means…

Mingyong Glacier travel brings you to one of the most striking sights in northwest Yunnan: a river of ice that spills down from the sacred peak of Meili Snow Mountain…

Chenghai Lake travel introduces you to one of Yunnan’s quiet surprises: a warm, mildly saline lake tucked into the hills of Yongsheng County, northwest Yunnan, where you can actually swim…

Hongze Lake travel takes you to the largest freshwater lake in Jiangsu and one of the great wetlands of eastern China. Ringed by reed beds, fish farms, and quiet water…

Namcha Barwa travel rewards those who make the long journey to the eastern Himalaya with one of the most dramatic mountain scenes in Asia. At 7,782 meters, Namcha Barwa rises…

Haba Snow Mountain rises to 5,396 meters on the northwestern edge of Yunnan, a glaciated pyramid that looms directly above the roaring Yangtze of Tiger Leaping Gorge. A Haba Snow…

Mount Gongga, known to locals as Minya Konka, rises to 7,556 meters and is the highest summit in Sichuan, a towering pyramid of ice that dominates the eastern edge of…

The Qilian Mountains rise where Gansu and Qinghai meet, a long wall of snow capped peaks and green alpine valleys that splits the Hexi Corridor from the Tibetan plateau. A…