The icons of China,
on a private trip.
The famous ones everyone wants to see, and a few we'd like more travellers to know about. All run by the same team. Same private-trip promise: just your party, no forced shopping, one all-inclusive price. Pick a place; we'll show you the version we'd build for you.
Every experience runs on a private 5-seater with driver from US$360/day. Rolled into your journey quote.
Shaanxi
The Terracotta Warriors
Forty kilometres east of Xi'an, an army the First Emperor took to his grave.
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Beijing
The Great Wall
Two hours north of Beijing, on a section the day-trip convoys can't reach.
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Chongqing
Chongqing
Light-rail trains through apartment blocks, cable cars over the Yangtze, lantern-lit cliffs at blue hour.
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Shaanxi
Huashan
One of the five sacred mountains, two hours east of Xi'an, two thousand metres up.
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Hunan
Zhangjiajie
The Avatar mountains, three thousand quartzite spires in a single national park, four hours west of Changsha.
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Sichuan
The Chengdu Pandas
Sichuan's research base, on the morning slot, when the bears are actually awake.
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Yunnan
Lijiang Old Town
Eight centuries old, a UNESCO heritage site, and quiet for exactly two hours either side of the day-tour clock.
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Shaanxi
Huaqing Palace
Thirty minutes east of Xi'an, an imperial hot-spring complex with three thousand years of layered history.
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Beijing
The Forbidden City
The Ming and Qing palace city, most tours rush its axis at noon. We don't.
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Chongqing
Wulong Karst
A UNESCO World Heritage landscape two hours east of Chongqing, caves, sinkholes, vertical karst.
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Shaanxi
Xi'an's City Wall
The largest intact ancient city wall in China, our preferred way is on a bicycle, at dusk.
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Guangxi
The Li River
Four hours downriver between the limestone peaks of southern China, on our own vessel, ahead of the convoy.
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Chongqing to Yichang
The Yangtze Three Gorges
Four nights downriver through the most-painted stretch of the Yangtze, on the only tier of cruise that's actually quiet.
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Yunnan
Shangri-La
Three hours north of Lijiang, on the southern edge of the Tibetan plateau, at altitudes that ask you to slow down.
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Zhejiang
Hangzhou & West Lake
Forty-five minutes south of Shanghai by high-speed rail. China's most-painted lake, and the Longjing tea hills that rise behind it.
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Jiangsu
Suzhou's Classical Gardens
Twenty-five minutes west of Shanghai by high-speed rail. Nine UNESCO-listed Ming and Qing gardens, and the canal grid they sit inside.
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Yunnan
Tiger Leaping Gorge
One of the deepest river gorges in the world, an hour north of Lijiang on the road to Shangri-La.
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Heilongjiang
Harbin Ice & Snow Festival
Two hours by air from Beijing, in northeast China. Open Christmas Eve through February. Below -20°C, often below -30°C.
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Every icon, every visit,
one team.
Every experience on this page runs on the same standards. Our own people in Xi'an and Shaanxi. Trusted partners across the rest of China. Three promises hold across all of them.
Our own people.
Guides on our payroll. Drivers we know by name. Same brief, every visit.
Trusted partners.
Direct relationships at the museums, palaces and parks. The early-entry slot at the Warriors. The blue-hour timing at Hongya Cave.
No forced shopping.
No jade factory. No silk showroom. Written into your booking.
Tell us which icons,
we'll route the rest.
A few details and a month is all we need. A first-draft sketch will land in your inbox by reply tomorrow, the icons booked at the right hour, the stays named, the all-inclusive price honest. No deposit, no obligation.