Cities

Anxi travel guide is a phrase that only made sense to me once I stood on a terraced hillside near 800 meters and watched a farmer’s hands turn a mound…

Gongyi is not on the list most first-time visitors to China write for themselves, which is precisely why this Gongyi travel guide is worth reading before you book anything. This…

Most maps of Zhejiang give you the same three dots: Hangzhou with its lake, the water towns north of it, and the seafront cities to the south. Panan is the…

My first time into Longyan was at the end of April, and the rain had only just stopped. I boarded at Xiamen North, reached Longyan station in a little over…

My first morning in Hunchun began as a mistake. I had booked a single night, planning to use it as a sleep stop on the way to Changbai Mountain, and…

Huailai sits underneath the Great Wall, and that is the whole appeal. This county of Zhangjiakou City in northern Hebei lies roughly 130 km northwest of Beijing and about 60…

Rongcheng is a county-level city on the northern shoulder of the Shandong Peninsula, and it holds the easternmost ground in mainland China. At roughly 122 degrees east, the coastline here…

Yongchuan sits at the far western edge of Chongqing Municipality, about 60 kilometres from the city centre and roughly one hour by high-speed rail. It is the greenest corner of…

Yuyao sits in the shadow of two famous neighbours and quietly outranks both of them for the first morning of any trip. A county-level city administered by Ningbo, it spreads…

In 208, a fleet of chained warships burned on a bend of the Yangtze and the balance of a continent shifted. Chibi is the Hubei town that sells itself on…