Attractions

Between the Tibetan plateau towns of Litang and Daocheng in western Sichuan, China, the road climbs onto a barren, otherworldly tableland where the earth looks as though it has been…

Guilin Seven Star Park is the oldest and largest of the Guilin city parks, and it is the place I point first-time visitors to when they want the famous karst…

The Kunming Western Hills, known locally as Xishan, are the green crescent that curves above the western shore of Dianchi Lake, and they are the closest thing Kunming, China has…

Mong Kok Hong Kong is the densest, loudest, most alive slice of Hong Kong, China you can stand in, and it is exactly the neighborhood I send people to when…

Spend a slow morning in Taipa Village Macau and you quickly understand why this low-rise grid of pastel townhouses has become the most walkable, human-scale corner of Macau, China. Set…

The Guangzhou Sacred Heart Cathedral is the most unexpected building in a city of surprises: a vast, twin-towered Gothic cathedral of grey granite rising on the north bank of the…

Jing’an Temple Shanghai is the city’s most surreal spiritual address: a blazing, gold-roofed Buddhist monastery sitting directly above one of the busiest metro interchanges in Shanghai, China, ringed by glass…

The Genghis Khan Mausoleum is one of those sites that surprises travellers who expect a tomb and find a living shrine. Set on the Ordos grassland in Inner Mongolia, China,…

The Chengde Mountain Resort is, quite simply, the largest royal garden ever built in China, and in our experience it is the most under-rated day or two you can add…

A Ganden Monastery day trip is, in our experience, the single best half-day you can pull out of Lhasa, Tibet, China without another permit or another hotel change. Sitting on…