Cities

Most visitors to Hubei race through Yichang on their way to the Three Gorges Dam and never learn that an hour south, the Qingjiang River curls through a quieter, greener…

On the far western edge of Guangxi, where the Zuojiang River curls toward the Vietnam border, Longzhou is a sleepy county that guards one of China’s most astonishing open-air galleries….

Deep in the karst hills of northwest Guangxi, Bama Yao Autonomous County has built an international reputation on a single remarkable statistic: an unusually high number of residents who live…

Tucked into the web of waterways in central Jiangsu, Xinghua is the kind of place most foreign travelers have never heard of, and that is exactly why we keep sending…

Lijiang is the Yunnan most travelers dream of before they arrive — a maze of stone lanes and canals beneath a wall of snow, where the Naxi people have lived…

Harbin wears its history on its façades. The capital of Heilongjiang Province was built by Russian railway engineers at the turn of the 20th century, and the result is a…

Most China itineraries skip Qitaihe entirely, and in our experience that is a mistake. This small city in the heart of Heilongjiang Province does not appear on postcards, yet it…

Hunchun is the kind of place you find only by going out of your way — and that is exactly why our travelers love it. Tucked into the eastern corner…

Tumen sits at the far eastern edge of Jilin Province, where the Tumen River draws a thin line between China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We have sent…

Perched on the Yan River where the Loess Plateau folds into deep yellow gullies, Yan’an is one of Shaanxi’s most layered destinations. For many Chinese travelers it is a pilgrimage…