Travel magazine
Six running series and hundreds of articles, written by the people who plan the trips.
When to go
Seasons, month by month, region by region
What it costs
Real budgets in dollars, with tables
Routes that work
Tested itineraries and combinations
Eating across Asia
What to order and where
On foot
Treks and long walks, described honestly
Before you book
Visas, permits, timing, practicalities
Yunnan on foot: Tiger Leaping Gorge, Shaxi and the Yubeng valley
Yunnan is where China stops looking like China and starts looking like the eastern edge of the Himalaya, which is exactly what…
What we would skip in China
Every China itinerary is a subtraction problem. The country is too big and too full for two weeks, so the useful work…
What to eat in China, region by region
There is no such thing as Chinese food. There are at least eight major regional cuisines, they disagree with each other about…
How many days do you need in China?
The honest answer is twelve to sixteen, and the reason is arithmetic rather than taste. China is about 3,100 miles (5,000 km)…
How much does two weeks in China really cost?
The cost of two weeks in China is harder to research than almost any country in Asia, because the honest answer has…
How Chinese high-speed rail actually works
China is roughly 3,100 miles (5,000 km) from the eastern coast to the western border and runs on a single time zone…
Paying for things in China, and getting your phone to work
Paying for things in China is the single thing that catches first-time visitors out, and it is entirely fixable in about twenty…
Best time to visit China: month by month, and why the region matters more
The best time to visit China is April to May and September to October. Month by month and region by region, plus…
China with children, and what we change
China is easier with children than most parents expect and harder in exactly two places. The easy part is almost everything practical:…
Beijing in four days, by district and by time of day
Beijing is not a difficult city to visit. It is a difficult city to visit badly, which most four-day itineraries manage, because…
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