If China’s south is about mist and rice terraces, the north is about space — and nowhere is that space more overwhelming than the Hulunbuir grassland. Named for Hulun Lake…
Tucked into the tropical southwest of Yunnan, against the Myanmar border, Gengma Yunnan is one of those counties most foreign travelers never reach — and that is precisely its charm….
If you scroll to the far northwest corner of Sichuan, past the better-known towns of Kangding and Daofu, you’ll hit Shiqu Sichuan — a county so remote that Chinese travel…
Most visitors to Yunnan rush the Dali–Lijiang corridor, but the Hequing travel guide you actually want is the one that tells you to stop halfway. Heqing County sits in the…
A Jiayuguan travel guide has to start with the geography: this is where the Ming Great Wall runs out of empire and meets the Gobi. Jiayuguan, Gansu, China sits at…
A Xitang travel guide has to make one point up front: the town you see at 3pm is not the town you see at 9pm. Xitang is a Jiangnan water…
A Liping travel guide should open with a sound before a sight: the evening drill of a wooden drum tower, then a wall of a cappella harmony rising from a…
A proper Yanbian travel guide has to start with a confession: we arrived expecting a one-night stopover and stayed five. Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture sits in the far eastern tip…
This Shangri-La travel guide is for travelers who want the thin air and timber towns of Yunnan’s northwest without leaving the comfortable rail-and-flight network of mainland China. Shangri-La sits in…
This Huangping travel guide comes from our own trips through the northern folds of Qiandongnan in Guizhou, where Huangping County spreads a quieter, less-marketed version of Miao culture across green…