Jiayuguan Fort: The Western End of the Great Wall
How to visit Jiayuguan Fort, the western end of the Ming Great Wall: what the ticket includes, the Overhanging Wall climb, and a realistic one-day plan.
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Bingling Temple Gansu: The Grottoes You Reach by Boat
How to reach Bingling Temple by boat from Lanzhou, what the 420 AD Cave 169 inscription means, current ticket costs, and the season that keeps boats running.
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Tengwang Pavilion Nanchang: The Tower Beside the River
Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang is one of China’s Three Great Towers, famous for a Tang poem and a wide Gan River view. Here is how to visit and what to expect.
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Ming Tombs: The Underground Palace and the Sacred Way
The Ming Tombs north of Beijing pair a stone-lined Sacred Way with Dingling’s open underground palace. Learn which tombs to enter and how to get there.
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Longji Rice Terraces: The Dragon’s Backbone Fields
Longji Rice Terraces in Guangxi are 600-year-old Zhuang and Yao paddies carved into dragon-scale ridges. Here is when to go and which villages to pick.
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Libo Zhangjiang: Karst, Waterfalls, and Seven Small Arches
Libo Zhangjiang guide: the uncrowded Guizhou karst, the Seven Small Arches bridge, wade-able streams, how to get there, season, and costs versus Guilin.
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Qufu: Confucius Temple, Mansion, and Cemetery
Qufu is the Shandong hometown of Confucius, home to his temple, the Kong family mansion, and the walled cemetery. Here is how to visit all three on a day trip.
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Zhouzhuang Water Town: The Original Canals of the Yangtze Delta
Zhouzhuang, the Yangtze Delta’s oldest canal town, centers on the famous Double Bridge, the Shen Wansan halls, and braised pork knuckle, an easy half-day from Suzhou.
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Yuanyang Rice Terraces: The Best Light in Yunnan
Yuanyang Rice Terraces in Yunnan: the Hani people’s flooded mirror fields, the Duoyishu sunrise and Tiger Mouth sunset viewpoints, the best months, and how to reach them from Kunming.
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Yellow Crane Tower Wuhan: One of Three Great Towers
Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan is the most famous of China’s Three Great Towers, with a famous poem and a wide Yangtze-Han river view. Here is how to visit.
