Attractions

At 1,600 metres in subtropical central China you expect bamboo, or pine, or cloud forest. What you get here is grass — thousands of hectares of it, rolling over the…

There is a crevice here called Tianyi Xiang where the rock walls close to less than a metre apart for a couple of hundred metres, and you walk it sideways…

You hear it before the road turns. A low, chest-level rumble that you feel in your sternum, and then the loess plateau simply opens and the Yellow River — three…

Stand on the Dragon Gate ledge on a clear December morning and Dianchi stops looking like a lake at all. It becomes a sheet of hammered tin, roughly 300 square…

The last kilometre of road to Basha climbs out of the Duliu River valley through fir forest so dense the light turns green. Then the trees open and you are…

This Luoping rapeseed flower guide covers one of the most photogenic short trips in southwest China: a county in eastern Yunnan where, for about four weeks each late winter, roughly…

There are prettier old towns in China, but there is nothing quite like this one: a two-thousand-year-old Tujia settlement built directly on top of a sixty-metre waterfall, its wooden stilt…

This Dongting Lake travel guide covers the vast, shape-shifting body of water that dominates northern Hunan and has been shaping Chinese poetry, painting, and flood politics for two thousand years….

This Qikou ancient town guide is about one of the least-visited historic places in northern China: a stone-built river port clinging to the loess cliffs of Lin County, in the…

Most travellers to Sichuan get as far as Chengdu, Leshan, and Jiuzhaigou and never turn northeast — which is precisely why this Langzhong ancient town guide exists. Langzhong sits in…