20 Chinese cities, one deep guide each

5 days to walk the Forbidden City, climb the Great Wall, and lose yourself in hutongs.

Where old-world glamour meets tomorrow's skyline — 4 days from the Bund to water towns.

Pandas, hotpot & teahouse life — the city you never want to leave.

Terracotta warriors, a 600-year city wall, and the carb capital of China.

The dim sum capital of the world and the gateway to the south.

A monorail through a building, a cableway over the Yangtze, and China's spiciest hotpot.

"Above there is heaven, below there is Hangzhou" — lake, tea and quiet elegance.

Classical gardens, whitewashed canals and 2,500 years of refined living.

Karst peaks, emerald rivers — the landscape on China's 20-yuan note.

Thousands of quartzite pillars in the mist — the real Hallelujah Mountains.

Russian domes, sub-zero winters and the largest ice festival on earth

China's tropical south — beaches, reefs and 30 days visa-free

A UNESCO old town of canals and cobbles beneath a 5,596m glacier peak

German colonial streets, seafood by the pier and China's most famous brewery

A former imperial capital of shaded boulevards, Ming tombs and one of the longest surviving city walls on earth

A car-free UNESCO island of piano villas, a relaxed treaty port and some of the best seafood on China's southeast coast

China's youngest megacity — a futuristic skyline, genuinely clean coastal parks and the mainland's easiest hop to Hong Kong

Hunan's fiery food capital, a river island of gardens and statues, and one of China's liveliest night scenes

A lakeside old town beneath the Cangshan range, in the heart of Bai minority country — and one of the cheapest places in China to slow down

China's most famous mountain — granite peaks above a sea of clouds, and the white-walled Hui villages below it