Travel Guide

China’s rail network is famous for speed, but it also hides a slower, plusher side that most visitors never book. A proper China luxury train guide has to cover more…

Traveling alone in China sounds intimidating until you actually do it, and then it turns out to be one of the easiest solo trips in Asia. The transport is fast…

The Silk Road is the trip that turns China from a list of cities into a story. For two thousand years caravans carried silk, jade, and ideas between the heart…

Spring is the season that shows China at its most generous. After the grey of winter the hills turn green, the fruit trees burst into bloom, and the tourist pressure…

When most travelers picture China, they imagine summer crowds, humid heat, and long queues at every ticket window. But the travelers who plan smart go in winter. The best winter…

Autumn is the country at its most photogenic. The best autumn destinations China offers range from golden birch forests in the far west to red maples inside the capital’s hills….

Only five days? Skip the urge to see everything and do two great cities well. This China 5-day itinerary pairs Beijing’s imperial core with Xi’an’s ancient walls and Terracotta Army…

Three weeks is the sweet spot for a first serious trip to China. It is long enough to cross the country without living in trains, and short enough to keep…

I’ll be honest with you: when my friend Daniel — a wheelchair user from Manchester — first asked me to help plan his three-week trip to China, I hesitated. China…

When I tell friends back home that I spent three weeks eating my way across China as a vegan, the usual reply is a raised eyebrow and “But… the meat?”…