Travel Guide

We’ve watched a client order a wedding banquet in a village with no English on the menu, purely by holding up a phone; and we’ve watched another get hopelessly lost…

We’ve had clients faint on the Great Wall from dehydration, pick up stomach bugs from a beloved noodle stall, and one who needed a Kunming clinic at 2 a.m. for…

We’ve walked clients through Beijing hutongs at 6 a.m. before the rickshaws come out, and we’ve handed a Seoul-based couple a printed map of Shanghai’s French Concession and let them…

We’ve sent clients to dragon boat races from Miluo in Hunan to the Pearl River in Guangzhou, and one thing is constant: the energy on the riverbank is unlike anything…

We’ve driven sections of the G318 with clients more times than we care to count, and the Sichuan-Tibet Highway remains the most jaw-dropping road in the country — and the…

We’ve helped several expecting mothers travel across China, from a second-trimester client who walked the Great Wall to a third-trimester teacher who needed a Shanghai hospital at 2 a.m. Traveling…

We’ve walked clients across more than a dozen of China’s land borders over the years, and the pattern is always the same: the paperwork is the trip. Crossing into mainland…

We’ve put clients on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway more times than we can count, and it remains the most talked-about leg of any trip we run into Tibet, China. The line…

A tourist visa rarely survives contact with a real China trip. We have watched countless travelers land planning ten days, then after a few nights in Chengdu or a slow…

Most first-time visitors to China assume airport lounges are for business-class ticket holders and nobody else. They are wrong. A China airport lounge guide has to start there, because the…