Hailuogou Glacier Guide: Walking to a Glacier Tongue Below Mount Gongga
Most glaciers in China sit at the end of a multi-day trek, but Hailuogou glacier guide readers get a rare treat: a glacier you can reach by cable car and…
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Tianzhu Mountain Guide: Anhui’s Granite Pillar Peak Without the Crowds
When travelers think of Anhui’s mountains, Huangshan usually wins the spotlight. But three hours southwest, a quieter giant rises from the mist: Tianzhu Mountain Anhui (also spelled Tianzhushan). Its name…
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Baiyun Mountain Guide: Guangzhou’s Green Lung and Best City Panorama
Guangzhou is famous for dim sum, skyscrapers, and relentless energy — but the city also has a mountain inside its limits. Baiyun Mountain Guangzhou (White Cloud Mountain) is an 8-kilometer…
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Danxia Mountain Guide: The Guangdong Cliffs That Named a Landform
Most travelers flying into Guangdong head straight for the cities, but two hours north of Guangzhou a very different landscape waits. Danxia Mountain Shaoguan is the red-sandstone wonderland that gave…
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Tengwang Pavilion Guide: Nanchang’s Riverside Tower of Tang Poetry
If you are planning a stop in Jiangxi, the single most rewarding sight in the provincial capital is Tengwang Pavilion. This riverside tower is one of the three great towers…
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Penglai Pavilion Guide: The Immortals’ Tower on Shandong’s Northern Cliff
Penglai Pavilion is the reason the small coastal town of Penglai, in Yantai on the northern shore of Shandong Peninsula, has been famous for more than a thousand years. A…
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Laoshan Mountain Guide: Qingdao’s Taoist Peaks Rising Straight From the Sea
Laoshan is the mountain that gives Qingdao its mythic backdrop: pale granite peaks that rise straight from the Yellow Sea, wrapped in pine forest and threaded with Taoist temples. A…
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Yulin Travel Guide: Shaanxi’s Desert Great Wall and the Yellow River Wave Valley
Yulin sits in the far north of Shaanxi Province, out where the Loess Plateau meets the edge of the Mu Us Desert and the Great Wall once marked the frontier…
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Chifeng Travel Guide: Ulan Butong Grassland and Keshiketeng Rock Forests
Chifeng sits in the eastern corner of Inner Mongolia, where the grasslands of the north meet the mountains and farmland of Hebei Province. A good Chifeng travel guide has to…
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Mudanjiang Travel Guide: Jingpo Lake Falls and China’s Snow Town
Mudanjiang sits in the far southeast of Heilongjiang Province, where the Changbai Mountain range spills across the border with Russia and the climate turns properly Siberian. For most foreign travelers,…
