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Welcome to China Unhurried, and why it exists
Planning · Panda · 1 month ago
Do the Terracotta Army backwards: Pit 3, Pit 2, then Pit 1
Xi'an 西安 · Panda · 1 month ago
Give Kunming two days on the way west, not a stopover of two hours
Kunming 昆明 · Panda · 1 month ago
Hunan Museum tickets go a week ahead and vanish at weekends
Changsha 长沙 · Panda · 1 month ago
Stay a night in the old town instead of day-tripping from Shanghai
Suzhou 苏州 · Panda · 1 month ago
Two stations, and the fast one is not the near one
Pingyao 平遥 · Panda · 1 month ago
Do the cable car and the river views after dark, and queue on the south bank
Chongqing 重庆 · Panda · 1 month ago
Cruise or raft, decide by how much time you want on the water
Guilin 桂林 · Panda · 1 month ago
Zhangjiajie is not a day trip from Changsha — give it two nights
Changsha 长沙 · Panda · 1 month ago
Walk over the 1957 bridge and take the two-yuan ferry back at dusk
Wuhan 武汉 · Panda · 1 month ago
Be at the panda base for opening or do not bother going
Chengdu 成都 · Panda · 1 month ago
Sort your payments and data in Shanghai before you head inland
Shanghai 上海 · Panda · 1 month ago
Kumbum early in the morning, when the pilgrims outnumber the visitors
Xining 西宁 · Panda · 1 month ago
April is peony month, which means flowers and a full city
Luoyang 洛阳 · Panda · 1 month ago
Stay in the Former French Concession and give the Bund one evening
Shanghai 上海 · Panda · 1 month ago
Give Yungang half a day, and start at the far end of the cliff
Datong 大同 · Panda · 1 month ago
Tiger Leaping Gorge is a two-day walk, not an afternoon photo stop
Lijiang 丽江 · Panda · 1 month ago
Sleep one night on Gulangyu and watch the day-trippers leave
Xiamen 厦门 · Panda · 1 month ago
Walk the West Lake causeways at dawn, then again at dusk
Hangzhou 杭州 · Panda · 1 month ago · 1 found this useful
Sleep inside the walls; the town is worth the evening, not the day
Pingyao 平遥 · Panda · 1 month ago