3–4 daysGuide →Beijing
Great Wall · Forbidden City
Walk the Jinshanling and Mutianyu sections of the Great Wall, then step inside the world's largest palace complex. Finish with hutong lanes and a proper Peking duck.
China Destinations
Thirteen places, thirteen full guides. Open any destination for its complete introduction — top sights, how many days you need, what to eat, the best season, how to get there, and the tours that include it. And they're a starting point, not the whole map — trips can be customized to anywhere else in China.
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3–4 daysGuide →
2–3 daysGuide →Shanghai
The Bund · Future skyline
Colonial-era Bund on one bank, sci-fi towers on the other. Add Yu Garden, the French Concession's plane-tree streets, and soup dumplings done properly.
2 daysGuide →Xi'an
Terracotta Warriors
Face 8,000 life-size soldiers buried for 2,200 years, cycle the intact Ming city wall, and graze your way through the Muslim Quarter's lamb skewers and hand-pulled noodles.
2–3 daysGuide →Chengdu
Giant pandas · Sichuan food
Meet the pandas at breakfast time, when they're actually awake. Then slow down Sichuan-style: teahouses, mahjong in the park, and hotpot as spicy as you dare.
2–3 daysGuide →Guilin & Yangshuo
Li River · Karst peaks
Cruise the Li River past the exact view printed on the ¥20 note, drift down the Yulong River on a bamboo raft, and cycle between limestone peaks and rice fields.
3 daysGuide →Zhangjiajie
The Avatar mountains
Three thousand stone pillars floating in the mist — the landscape that inspired Pandora in Avatar. Ride the world's tallest outdoor lift and walk the glass bridge if you're brave.
2 daysGuide →Chongqing
The cyberpunk mountain city
A city stacked on cliffs where trains pass through apartment buildings. Hongyadong stacks 11 storeys up the cliff, so you can walk in on the top floor from the street and find the river at the bottom.
3–4 daysGuide →Gansu & Dunhuang
Mogao Caves · Singing sand dunes
Out where the Silk Road met the desert: a thousand years of Buddhist art painted inside the Mogao Caves, dunes at Mingsha Shan taller than office blocks, and a crescent-shaped spring that has sat in the sand for two thousand years without drying up.
6–8 daysGuide →Yunnan
Kunming · Dali · Lijiang · Shangri-La
A slower southwest loop of old towns and snow mountains: Erhai Lake at Dali, Lijiang's lanes under Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and Shangri-La's monasteries at the edge of the plateau.
4–5 daysGuide →Tibet
Lhasa · Potala Palace
The Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, with Yamdrok Lake's turquoise sweep beyond. Travel here is permit-based for foreign visitors — an organised tour with a licensed guide, paperwork arranged in advance.
2 daysGuide →Hangzhou
West Lake · Longjing tea hills
West Lake by boat and causeway, Lingyin Temple in the wooded hills, and Longjing tea in the villages where it's actually grown — about an hour from Shanghai, and the easiest add-on in the east.
3 daysGuide →Harbin & the Northeast
Ice & Snow Festival · Northeast winter
A city rebuilt in ice every winter: full-size illuminated ice palaces, snow-sculpture parks and Russian-era avenues. The festival runs roughly late December to late February — and it is properly cold.
2–3 daysGuide →Guangzhou
Canton Tower · Dim sum capital
Old Canton and new skyline in one stop: Shamian Island and the Chen Clan Academy by day, Canton Tower over the Pearl River by night — and dim sum as a daily ritual, not just a meal.
You decideSomewhere else?
Anywhere in China
Suzhou's gardens, the Yellow Mountains, Fujian's tulou roundhouses, Inner Mongolia's grasslands — if it's in China, the team on the ground can build it. Just tell us where your curiosity points.
How most trips combine these places
First-timers usually link Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai — the Golden Triangle route. Add Guilin for scenery, or swap the capitals for Chengdu, Zhangjiajie and Guilin on the Pandas & Peaks route. Going west instead, Xi'an is also where the Silk Road begins — carry on from there to Gansu and Dunhuang for the caves and the desert. Further south, Yunnan strings Kunming, Dali, Lijiang and Shangri-La into one slow loop, Hangzhou pairs with Shanghai, Guangzhou anchors a food-led stop in the south, and Harbin is a winter trip of its own. Tibet stands apart — permit-based, and planned well ahead. Every destination page above lists the tours that include it, so you can start from a place and find its routes — or start from all tours and find your places.