Travel Guide.

Go deeper into a place.

PROVINCE GUIDE

Jiangsu

Gardens, canal cities and living crafts: finding your pace between Suzhou, Wuxi, Nanjing and Yangzhou.

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Zhejiang

Tea hills, waterside streets and cultural landscapes, from Hangzhou to a more personal journey through Zhejiang.

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Shaanxi

Imperial archaeology, everyday food and living traditions, with Xi’an as the beginning rather than the whole story.

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Gansu

Follow the Hexi Corridor through Buddhist art, oasis cities and desert landscapes, without rushing the distance between them.

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Shanxi

Timber temples, painted sculpture and merchant towns: an introduction to travelling through China’s architectural history.

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Jiangnan

A journey across Shanghai, southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, following gardens, tea, craft and waterside life.

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Tibet

Monasteries, living traditions and plateau landscapes, with thoughtful advice on seasons, altitude and the pace of your journey.

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Follow a landscape or belief.

MOUNTAIN GUIDE

Three Mountains & Five Great Peaks

Explore eight celebrated mountain landscapes through scenery, belief, poetry and journeys that fit their real geography.

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Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains

Putuo, Jiuhua, Wutai and Emei: four living Buddhist mountain landscapes and four different journeys.

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The Silk Roads

Follow the oasis towns, frontier passes, cave art and old capitals of a changing network, beyond any single religion or trade good.

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Eastern Zhejiang Poetry Road

Travel from Shaoxing through Shengzhou and Xinchang to Tiantai, following waterways, mountains and the poems that gave them new lives.

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The Fuchun River

Read a river landscape through Huang Gongwang, Yan Ziling, and the places between Fuyang and Tonglu.

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The Chan Lineage

Follow the traditional Chan lineage from the Flower Sermon and twenty-eight Indian patriarchs to Bodhidharma, Huineng and the Five Houses and Seven Schools.

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Make the journey work for you.

FIRST JOURNEYS

Planning 7–10 days in China

Compare a city-focused China itinerary with a nine-day journey including Zhangjiajie, and decide how much travelling fits your trip.

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Zhangjiajie: three days or four?

Compare our three- and four-day Zhangjiajie itineraries, including Yuanjiajie, Tianzi Mountain, Tianmen Mountain and the Grand Canyon Glass Bridge.

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Choosing your Tibet journey

Compare Lhasa-focused journeys, lake and monastery routes, eastern Tibet circuits and the Chengdu–Lhasa road journey in our Tibet collection.

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The Chan Journey

A practical regional route through the temples associated with Chan’s first six patriarchs, with time for travel and living religious places.

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Get to know a place through its objects.

Choose a museum by the collection that interests you: archaeology, art, sacred images or a region’s cultural life. Find illustrated guides and visits with time to look closely.