Attractions

The Qiyun Mountain is the mountain most Huangshan visitors skip, and the one a lot of them wish they had not. Forty kilometres west of Huangshan city in Anhui, it…

Most visitors land in Guiyang for the waterfalls and the Miao villages and skip the old town on the city’s doorstep. A good Qingyan ancient town guide makes the case…

If you have stood in the packed lanes of Lijiang or Dali during a holiday weekend and wondered where the quiet Yunnan went, a Shaxi ancient town guide is the…

The Yanmenguan pass is the Great Wall experience most foreign visitors never hear about, and exactly the one many end up loving most. Tucked into a narrow saddle of the…

The Xuexiang snow town is the China winter image most people have seen without knowing its name — wooden cabins buried under metre-thick caps of snow so round they look…

The Wudalianchi volcano district is one of those Chinese sights that barely registers on the foreign-tourist map and absolutely should. In the flat black-soil country of northern Heilongjiang, a cluster…

The Zoige grassland is the kind of place that ruins other grasslands for you. Out on the high plateau of northern Sichuan, the land flattens into a sea of green…

Fayuan Temple Beijing is the oldest working Buddhist monastery in the capital, a quiet warren of courtyards, peony beds, and incense smoke hidden in the hutongs just southwest of the…

The Nanputuo Temple Xiamen sits at the foot of Wulao Peak with its back to the hills and its face toward the sea, a working Buddhist monastery where the vegetarian…

The Sun and Moon Pagodas Guilin are a pair of illuminated towers rising from the middle of Shanhu Lake in the heart of the city, and they are the easiest…