Attractions

Chenghai Lake travel introduces you to one of Yunnan’s quiet surprises: a warm, mildly saline lake tucked into the hills of Yongsheng County, northwest Yunnan, where you can actually swim…

Hongze Lake travel takes you to the largest freshwater lake in Jiangsu and one of the great wetlands of eastern China. Ringed by reed beds, fish farms, and quiet water…

Namcha Barwa travel rewards those who make the long journey to the eastern Himalaya with one of the most dramatic mountain scenes in Asia. At 7,782 meters, Namcha Barwa rises…

Haba Snow Mountain rises to 5,396 meters on the northwestern edge of Yunnan, a glaciated pyramid that looms directly above the roaring Yangtze of Tiger Leaping Gorge. A Haba Snow…

Mount Gongga, known to locals as Minya Konka, rises to 7,556 meters and is the highest summit in Sichuan, a towering pyramid of ice that dominates the eastern edge of…

The Qilian Mountains rise where Gansu and Qinghai meet, a long wall of snow capped peaks and green alpine valleys that splits the Hexi Corridor from the Tibetan plateau. A…

About fifteen kilometers north of Jinhua in Zhejiang Province, Shuanglong Cave — the “Double Dragon Cave” — hides inside the wooded slopes of Beishan mountain. What sets it apart from…

Rising along the border where Jiangxi meets Hunan, Jinggang Mountain — locally Jinggangshan — is one of those Chinese destinations that wears two identities at once. Officially the peaks sit…

Tucked into the hills about 70 kilometers southeast of Kunming, Fuxian Lake is the kind of place that makes first-time visitors to Yunnan stop mid-sentence. The water is so transparent…

Deep in the mountains of northeastern Jiangxi, where the air smells of pine and damp stone, Yaoli is the quietsource of one of China’s most famous crafts. For centuries, the…