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Lu Xun's Hometown is free, and still needs a booking on busy days
Shaoxing 绍兴 · Panda · 1 month ago
Longmen in the afternoon, west bank first, for the light on the Buddhas
Luoyang 洛阳 · Panda · 1 month ago
Summer Harbin is nearly empty, and the food is in Daowai either way
Harbin 哈尔滨 · Panda · 1 month ago
Come midweek — Shanghai empties into Hangzhou at the weekend
Hangzhou 杭州 · Panda · 1 month ago
The free museum tickets vanish in minutes — buy the Tang murals instead
Xi'an 西安 · Panda · 1 month ago
Give the old town one night, then move to a village on the lake
Dali 大理 · Panda · 1 month ago
Wild mushroom season is glorious, and not the moment to experiment
Kunming 昆明 · Panda · 1 month ago
Give the tea hills a whole morning, and walk over to Nine Creeks
Hangzhou 杭州 · Panda · 1 month ago
In Chongqing, trust exit numbers and lifts, not the blue dot
Chongqing 重庆 · Panda · 1 month ago
At the Stone Forest, walk twenty minutes past the tour groups
Kunming 昆明 · Panda · 1 month ago
Order the half set of the water banquet, unless there are six of you
Luoyang 洛阳 · Panda · 1 month ago
Chongqing hot pot is beef tallow and it does not do subtle
Chongqing 重庆 · Panda · 1 month ago
The old noodle houses open at dawn and are done by nine
Suzhou 苏州 · Panda · 1 month ago
Take the lake road slowly, and think twice about the scooter
Dali 大理 · Panda · 1 month ago
Laoshan takes a whole day and the bus is slower than it looks
Qingdao 青岛 · Panda · 1 month ago
Two ways in, and the fast train station is 130 kilometres away
Dunhuang 敦煌 · Panda · 1 month ago
The Qianling monkeys are quick, and they know what a plastic bag is
Guiyang 贵阳 · Panda · 1 month ago
Take the dunes in the last two hours of light, with your ankles covered
Dunhuang 敦煌 · Panda · 1 month ago
Two gardens a day, both at opening — five in a day is a mistake
Suzhou 苏州 · Panda · 1 month ago
Half an hour from Xiamen, and almost nobody makes the trip
Quanzhou 泉州 · Panda · 1 month ago