Attractions

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…

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…

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….

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…