Neijiang sits in southeast Sichuan where the Tuojiang River bends through a wide plain, about an hour by high-speed rail from Chengdu and roughly the same from Chongqing. Locals call…
Tonghua (通化) rarely appears on foreign itineraries, which is a pity, because this city in the southeastern fold of Jilin sits at the crossroads of three things Northeast China does…
Most foreign visitors to Gansu fly straight into Lanzhou and point their itineraries west toward Dunhuang. A good Baiyin travel guide has to make the case for stopping short of…
Seventy kilometres north of Xi’an, where the Guanzhong plain meets the loess hills, sits a small Shaanxi city that serious ceramics fans already know and almost everyone else misses. This…
Halfway between Kunming and Dali, where the central Yunnan plateau starts to roll, there is a prefecture most foreign itineraries skip — and that is their loss. This Chuxiong travel…
If your image of Yunnan stops at Dali’s lake and Xishuangbanna’s temples, you are missing the southwestern corner where China’s tea story actually begins. This Lincang travel guide covers a…
On the warm bend of the Jinsha River where Sichuan tips into Yunnan, there is a city most foreign travellers have never put on a map — and that is…
Most foreign visitors fly into Hainan and head straight for Sanya’s beaches or Haikou’s old quarter, never realising that the island’s most relaxed stretch of coast sits quietly between them….
Southern Guangxi is better known for Beihai and its volcano island, but just up the coast, Fangchenggang offers quieter sand, a working fishing culture, and China’s only coastal ethnic minority….
If you’re based in the Pearl River Delta and want greenery without flying, Heyuan is the answer. This Heyuan travel guide comes from our own weekend scouting and the short…