Cities

Our Tonglu travel guide is written for travelers who know the name of the Fuchun River even if they have never stood on its bank. Tonglu (桐庐) is a county…

Our Jurong travel guide comes from routes we have built for travelers who want the spiritual calm of a Taoist mountain without the crowds of China’s headline peaks. Jurong (句容)…

Our Rongjiang travel guide is built from trips we have arranged for readers who wanted to see the grassroots football phenomenon that turned a quiet county in southeast Guizhou into…

We have sent travelers to Xichang precisely because almost no one else does, and in our experience that is the point. This Xichang travel guide covers a highland city in…

We have routed travelers through Wenzhou as a quieter alternative to Hangzhou’s crowds, and in our experience this corner of southern Zhejiang rewards anyone who likes their coastline backed by…

Most visitors treat Tianjin as a quick stop between Beijing and the coast, but just west of the city center lies Yangliuqing, a canal town that has been famous for…

If you are based in Hefei and want a dose of old-world canal life without the long haul to Jiangnan’s famous water towns, Sanhe is the answer. This thousand-year-old town…

When travelers think of Fujian’s old towns they usually picture the round Tulou or the coastal ports. But tucked into the hills of northern Fujian, near the city of Shaowu,…

Most travelers who plan a Fujian trip head straight for the round earthen towers of the Tulou, and they are rightly spectacular. But if you want to understand how the…

Pull a RMB 20 note from your pocket and you’re holding Xingping ancient town in miniature. The green karst peaks and calm river on the back of that bill were…