Cities

Ningde sits along the northeastern coast of Fujian province, a place most foreign visitors rush past on the train between Fuzhou and Wenzhou. That is a real mistake. This Ningde…

This Huaihua travel guide is for travelers who want the minority cultures of western Hunan without the ticket queues of the famous towns. Huaihua, in the southwest of Hunan province,…

This Qujing travel guide is for travelers who enter Yunnan from the east and want a first taste of the province that isn’t already packed with tour buses. Qujing, in…

This Meishan travel guide is for travelers who want a quieter slice of Sichuan — one where a Song-dynasty literary family and a mossy primeval mountain share the same compact…

This Luzhou travel guide is for travelers who like their Chinese cities with a strong local accent — literally. Sitting where the Tuo River meets the Yangtze in southern Sichuan,…

This Yan’an travel guide is for travelers who want to trade China’s flashy eastern megacities for the carved loess hills of northern Shaanxi, where the Yan River bends past cave…

Most China itineraries rush from Beijing to the mountains or the coast, and in doing so they skip a river town that has been quietly important for a thousand years….

Jincheng sits in the southeast of Shanxi, pressed up against the Taihang Mountains that divide the province from the plains of Hebei and Henan. It is a city most foreign…

Qingyuan sits just north of Guangzhou, close enough for a day trip but rich enough to deserve two or three. The city is wrapped in some of the most unusual…

Yangjiang lies on the western coast of Guangdong, far enough from Guangzhou to feel like a proper escape but close enough for a long weekend. The city is best known…