Liangshan is the part of Sichuan that the pandas-and-peppercorns travel brochures forget. Tucked in the south of the province, bordering Yunnan, it is a high, mountainous prefecture where the Yi…
Dehong is Yunnan at its most unexpected: a strip of tropical lowlands along the border with Myanmar, where palm trees replace pine, where the dominant culture is Dai (closely related…
When people picture Yunnan, they imagine the humid tropics of Xishuangbanna or the old streets of Lijiang. Zhaotong breaks that image completely. Tucked into the northeastern corner of the province,…
Tongren sits in the quiet corner where Qinghai meets Gansu, a small city that most foreign visitors have never heard of and almost none plan to see. That is exactly…
Most foreign travelers racing along the Silk Road skip Jiuquan entirely, treating it as a blur of Gobi desert between Lanzhou and Dunhuang. That is a mistake. Jiuquan is the…
Mainland China’s rivers run from gentle jade channels between rice paddies to violent gorges that have defeated armies. This China river rafting guide splits the country into the two experiences…
Mainland China is not the obvious digital nomad destination — the internet needs a workaround and the visa is short — but for remote workers who want a change of…
Most first-time visitors to mainland China treat the country like a checklist: Beijing for the wall, Xi’an for the warriors, Shanghai for the skyline, then home. It works, but it…
Traveling as an LGBTQ visitor to mainland China is, for most people, refreshingly uncomplicated — provided you arrive with the right expectations. This China LGBTQ travel guide is not a…
The full moon of the eighth lunar month is the brightest of the year, and across mainland China families step out of their apartments, balance a plate of mooncakes on…