Cities

Langfang is a city that most travelers only see from a train window, and that is a mistake we want to correct. It sits in the narrow corridor between Beijing…

Hengshui is the kind of Chinese city that rarely appears on a foreigner’s list, and we think that is a shame. It sits in the plain of southern Hebei, a…

Most foreign travelers have never heard of Dongying, and that is exactly why we like sending curious ones there. This is a city built on two stories: the Yellow River,…

Qingyang sits in the east of Gansu province, a region known locally as Longdong, where the Loess Plateau rises in rolling yellow hills cut by deep ravines. A Qingyang travel…

Alxa League sits in the far west of Inner Mongolia, where three great deserts meet in a silence broken only by wind. For travelers who have already ticked off Beijing…

At the southern edge of Hebei, where the North China Plain finally lifts into the Taihang range, Xingtai is the city that stands between the fields and the mountains. A…

An hour by high speed train from Beijing, Baoding is the Hebei city that history keeps bumping into. For centuries it was the seat of the Zhili governor, the official…

On the northeastern tip of Hainan, where the island begins to taper toward the open sea, sits Wenchang, a county level city that is equal parts rocket science and sleepy…

Most visitors to Hainan land in Haikou or Sanya and never venture to the northwest, where the island bends into a quieter, stranger shape. Danzhou sits on that curve, a…

Most foreign visitors to Sichuan fly into Chengdu and never look beyond the city limits. That is a mistake. A 30 minute high speed train ride north brings you to…