Places we know
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Each one is run by the same team: our people in Xi'an and Shaanxi, trusted partners across the others. Same all-inclusive price. Same standard, every leg.
Xi'an & Shaanxi
the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties
The city wall encircles the old town like a sleeping dragon.
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Beijing & the Great Wall
the imperial spine of China
Six hundred years of imperial capital — the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the temples that ran the empire's calendar.
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The Yangtze
China's spine, by river
Three gorges, four days, one river — the Yangtze cruise downstream from Chongqing to Yichang is the country's most considered passage.
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Chengdu
tea-house China, at a different pace
Sichuan's capital — pandas, mahjong played on lacquer stools, fire-bright cuisine, and a tea-house culture that runs hot all afternoon.
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Guilin & the Li River
karst peaks and quiet river
Limestone peaks rising out of paddy fields, the Li River sliding south between them, fishermen with cormorant birds in the evening dusk.
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Shanghai
modern China, with the Concession era underfoot
Twenty-four million people, two centuries of layered history.
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Yunnan
ancient towns, snow peaks, and the slowest pace in China
Yunnan is China's southwest, a province the size of California folded into a high plateau where snow peaks meet subtropical valleys.
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Hangzhou
West Lake, the Longjing tea hills, the quiet east coast
Hangzhou is what Shanghai isn't.
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Suzhou
classical gardens, canal grid, Kunqu opera
Suzhou is China's classical-garden city.
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Pingyao
a Ming walled city, still fully inhabited
Pingyao is China's best-preserved Ming-era walled city, with the old town inside the walls intact in a way no other site has kept.
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Harbin
ice festival, Russian quarter, Manchurian winter
Harbin is what China does with a Siberian winter.
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Lhasa & Tibet
Tibetan Buddhism, on the roof of the world
Lhasa sits at 3,650 metres on the Tibetan plateau.
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Chongqing
the mountain city, where the gorges begin
Chongqing is the only Chinese city that's read vertically.
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