Travel Guide

Our guide to China winter festivals is built for travelers who want the cold months rather than fear them. From December through February the country puts on a different show…

Our China emergency guide is meant to live in your phone notes before you fly, not to be read in a panic at the roadside. The first thing to know…

Our China summer heat travel advice begins with a number: from June through August, daytime highs in the Yangtze basin routinely sit above 35 Celsius with humidity that makes the…

Our China travel photography gear advice always starts with a question we ask every client: what are you actually shooting? The right camera gear for China travel depends less on…

Our China currency money guide opens with a fact that surprises almost everyone on their first trip: the country runs on mobile payments, yet a visitor who arrives with only…

Flying inside China as a foreign visitor is easier than the forums suggest and more particular than the airlines admit, and the gap between the two is where trips go…

China rewards short trips the way few countries do, because the high speed rail network puts a different city within reach in the time it takes to watch a movie….

Mainland China’s rivers run from gentle jade channels between rice paddies to violent gorges that have defeated armies. This China river rafting guide splits the country into the two experiences…

Mainland China is not the obvious digital nomad destination — the internet needs a workaround and the visa is short — but for remote workers who want a change of…

Most first-time visitors to mainland China treat the country like a checklist: Beijing for the wall, Xi’an for the warriors, Shanghai for the skyline, then home. It works, but it…