We’ve been guiding travelers through Hubei’s lesser cities for years, and Tianmen (天门) is a sleeper: most people blow through on the train between Wuhan and Yichang without realizing they’re…
We’ve sent clients to every corner of Hainan, and the county-level city of Dongfang (东方) on the island’s dry west coast is the one we recommend to travelers who’ve already…
We’ve been routing travelers through Hubei’s Yangtze corridor for more than a decade, and the county-level city of Xiantao (仙桃) is one of those places that almost never shows up…
If you ask a Chinese food lover to name the country’s crayfish capital, almost everyone says the same word: Qianjiang. This compact city in the Jianghan Plain of Hubei province,…
Luohe rarely appears on foreign itineraries, and that is precisely why we like sending curious travelers there. Sitting almost dead-center in Henan province, where the Shahe and Lihe rivers meet,…
Most foreign visitors to Henan rush between the marquee names — the Shaolin Temple, the Longmen Grottoes, the old capital of Luoyang — and treat the rest of the province…
Most visitors to Inner Mongolia fly into Hohhot, rush to the Hulunbuir grasslands in the far northeast, and never glance at the eastern end of the region. That is a…
Most foreign travelers who come to Xinjiang, China fly into Urumqi or Kashgar and never push farther west than the old city walls of Kashgar. That is a mistake. About…
Most foreign visitors to Xinjiang, China head straight for Kashgar or the Tianchi lake above Urumqi. In our experience, the travelers who leave understanding the region’s scale are the ones…
When travelers talk about Qinghai’s salt lakes, they usually mean Chaka or Qinghai Lake itself. In our experience, the most photogenic stop on the whole northwest loop is the one…