Travel Guide

A Northeast China winter itinerary is the most physical trip in this series. The cold is not a backdrop, it is the main character: minus 20 is a normal afternoon,…

Jiangnan — the “south of the Yangtze” — is the China of ink paintings: white-walled canal towns, scholar’s gardens, and slow tea. The beauty of a Jiangnan 7 day itinerary…

Inner Mongolia is a province shaped like a long scarf draped across the top of northern China, and most first-timers make the same mistake: trying to see both ends in…

Shandong is the province where China shows its two faces at once: a breezy German-era port city on the coast and the Confucian heartland of the interior, two hours inland…

Fujian is the China I keep coming back to — a coastal province that hides, inland, some of the country’s strangest architecture and greenest mountains. In one week you can…

Guangxi is the China I show people when they say the country is all concrete. Within a single week you can float past limestone peaks on a misty river, climb…

A Qinghai Gansu loop itinerary is, for my money, the single best road trip in northern China — a roughly circular route through two provinces that stacks alpine lakes, salt…

Losing your passport in China is frightening, but it is also a routine problem that every embassy in Beijing deals with many times a week. We’ve walked clients through it…

A China visa invitation letter is one of the most misunderstood documents in the whole application process. Most first-time visitors to mainland China never need one, but if you fall…

Earthquakes are a fact of life across parts of China, and a little knowledge removes most of the fear. This China earthquake safety guide is not meant to alarm —…