Travel Guide

Winter turns large parts of China into a postcard — and into a real driving challenge. If you’re thinking about a China winter driving trip, the first thing to know…

A long China connection used to mean a tired nap on an airport chair. Not anymore. With the expanded 240-hour visa-free transit scheme, a China 48-hour layover can become two…

The travelers who enjoy China most are the ones who sorted the boring stuff at home. A China pre-trip checklist is not glamorous, but it is the difference between landing…

We get the message at 9 p.m.: “I land in Shanghai on Friday, any ideas?” Spontaneous trips to China are far easier than most first-time visitors expect, and real China…

I have now traveled China in every season, and the two windows I tell everyone to book are late March to May and September to early November. On a September…

I spent three weeks circling Sichuan and Chongqing last spring, and by day nine the only clean shirt I owned was the one I had been wearing for two days…

On my second trip to China, a friendly student asked me to help practice English, then steered me toward a tiny teahouse where the bill came to RMB 1,200 for…

If you have one week and have never been to China, this is the route I tell people to take. It covers the three cities most first-timers want: the imperial…

Most people fly to Sanya and never leave the resort. I did that on my first trip and regretted it. On my second visit I built a Hainan 7 day…

I picked Guizhou because I wanted a China trip that was not the usual Beijing-Shanghai loop. What I found was a province of misty peaks, the widest waterfall in Asia,…