Our Danba travel guide brings you to a green river valley in western Sichuan, China, where ethnic Tibetan communities have built white-walled stone watchtowers and terraced villages for more than…
Our Huangyao ancient town guide introduces a settled, atmospheric riverside town in eastern Guangxi that has changed surprisingly little since the Ming and Qing dynasties. Built more than 1,000 years…
Our Chongzuo travel guide takes you to one of Guangxi’s quietest and most rewarding corners, a borderland where dramatic limestone karst rises straight out of emerald rice paddies and some…
Detian Waterfall is a thundering, multi-tiered cascade on the Guichun River in Chongzuo, Guangxi, China, right on the country’s border with Vietnam — the largest transnational waterfall in Asia and…
Beihai is a laid-back coastal city in southern Guangxi, China, best known for its sweeping Silver Beach, a colonial-era Old Street, and the ferries that depart from its port to…
Weizhou Island is a volcanic island in the Beibu Gulf off the coast of Beihai, in Guangxi, China — a sun-warmed escape of black lava shores, coral-sand beaches, and a…
Yuanyang, in southern Yunnan’s Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, is home to the famous Hani Rice Terraces — a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of cascading, mirror-like paddies carved into…
Jianshui is a remarkably preserved ancient county town in southern Yunnan’s Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, a place where cobbled lanes, Qing-dynasty residences, and a Confucian temple of national…
Mile, a small city in the east of China’s Yunnan Province between Kunming and the Honghe rice terraces, is an unhurried surprise: a place of warm mineral springs, rolling vineyards,…
Pu’er, in the south of China’s Yunnan Province, is the namesake of the dark, aged tea that travels the world — but the city itself is a quiet green base…