Attractions

We’ve taken travelers to Shizhong Mountain (石钟山) more times than we can count, and yet the moment the boat rounds the spit of land where the Yangtze River crashes into…

If you are traveling between Shanghai and the mountains of Jiangxi and want a stop that looks like nowhere else in the province, Guifeng is the one. Its name means…

If you only have one free morning in Guiyang, skip the mall and head straight to Qianling Park. We have sent dozens of clients here over the years, and it…

We once spent a July evening on Daming Lake with no plan except to watch the lotus open at dusk, and it turned into the most relaxing three hours of…

On our last trip to Jinan we arrived at Baotu Spring at opening time, and the three jets were already throwing water a meter into the air while elderly locals…

We first took a client to Cangyan Mountain on a whim between Beijing and Shijiazhuang, expecting a minor temple hill — and both of us fell silent when we stepped…

The first time we drove the Golmud-to-Tibet road with a client, we stopped at the Kunlun Mountain Pass just long enough for photographs before the wind drove everyone back into…

When we last visited Xuedou Mountain in late April, the morning mist had not yet lifted off the gorge below Qianzhangyan, and the only sounds were the rush of the…

Changdao (长岛), the island chain off the north coast of Yantai in Shandong, is one of those places Chinese travelers know and foreign ones almost don’t. The islands sit in…

Xingkai Lake (兴凯湖) straddles the border between China and Russia, with the Chinese shoreline in Heilongjiang province, near the city of Mishan (密山) and the Jixi region. Russians know the…