Tacheng, in Xinjiang, China, is a border prefecture in the far northwest that most foreign visitors have never heard of. We send travellers there when they want a corner of…
Most foreign travellers who reach Qinghai stop at Qinghai Lake and leave. We keep sending a different kind of visitor further west to Delingha, a small prefecture-level city on the…
If your image of Inner Mongolia is an endless sea of grass under an enormous sky, a Xilingol travel guide should simply say: yes, and here it is. Xilingol League,…
When most foreign travelers picture Inner Mongolia, they picture endless grassland and galloping horses. A proper Bayannur travel guide should start with a gentle correction: Bayannur, in the west of…
Most visitors meet Sichuan through pandas, pandas’ bamboo, and a bowl of numbingly hot hotpot, and there is nothing wrong with that. But a proper Jianmen travel guide should point…
Most foreign travelers who land in Hubei never leave the Wuhan bubble, and honestly Wuhan deserves the attention. But a proper Ezhou travel guide should correct that blind spot, because…
Most first-time visitors to Northeast China build their itinerary around Shenyang, Harbin, and Dalian, and they are not wrong to do so. But if you are the kind of traveler…
Liaoyang (辽阳) makes a bold claim that happens to be true: it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in China, with a recorded history running past 2,300 years….
Fuxin (阜新) is not on anyone’s highlight reel, and that is precisely the interesting part. It is a former coal capital of Liaoning that ran out of easy coal, closed…
Chaoyang (朝阳) is the kind of Chinese city that surprises people who bothered to look. In the northeast of Liaoning, it sits where the Yan Mountains tail off into the…