Mount Sanqingshan Guide: Jiangxi’s Taoist Granite Peaks
This Mount Sanqingshan guide covers a mountain that most foreign visitors to China have never heard of, even though UNESCO inscribed it as a World Heritage Site in 2008. Rising…
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Yading Nature Reserve Guide: Sichuan’s Sacred Peaks
Most travelers who make it to Daocheng Yading describe the same first reaction: the three snow peaks rise so cleanly above the meadows that they look rendered rather than real….
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Namtso Lake Guide: Tibet, China’s Sky Lake
Most people hear “Tibet, China” and picture the Potala Palace. Two hundred and forty kilometers north of Lhasa, though, sits Namtso — a saltwater lake at 4,718 m that local…
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Kanas Lake Guide: Xinjiang, China’s Alpine Mystery
Most trip notes describe Kanas as “a pretty lake up north.” On the ground it is a 24-km glacial ribbon tucked into the Altai mountains of Xinjiang, China, fed by…
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Mount Siguniang Guide: Sichuan’s Alpine Paradise
Four hours west of Chengdu’s teahouses, the road climbs over a 4,500-meter pass and drops into a different world: glaciated granite peaks, yak meadows, and Tibetan villages strung along a…
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Poyang Lake Guide: Jiangxi’s Migratory Bird Wetland
Every winter, almost the entire world population of Siberian cranes — several thousand critically endangered white birds that breed in Arctic Russia — funnels down to one place: the mudflats…
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Jiuzhaigou Guide: Sichuan’s Fairytale Valleys
Most write-ups treat Jiuzhaigou as one place. On the ground it’s three: a Y-shaped system of valleys in northern Sichuan where the Shuzheng, Rize and Zechawa branches each have their…
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Stone Forest Guide: Yunnan’s Karst Wonder
Imagine a forest where every tree is a limestone blade, some rising 30 meters, packed so tightly that paths squeeze between them like alleys in an old city. That is…
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Libo Travel Guide: Guizhou’s Karst Forests and Waterfalls
Southern Guizhou hides one of China’s greenest corners: a maze of cone-shaped karst hills wrapped in subtropical forest, threaded by rivers so clear they look dyed. Libo County is the…
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Tianmen Mountain Guide: Zhangjiajie’s Sky Gate
Halfway up a 1,519-meter mountain in Hunan, a hole punches clean through the rock — Tianmen Cave, the “Heaven’s Gate,” 131 meters tall and visible from downtown Zhangjiajie on a…
