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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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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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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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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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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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.