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Qinghai Lake is a long day, and July is the one to aim for
Xining 西宁 · Panda · 1 month ago
Take the intercity train to Songchenglu, not the high-speed one
Kaifeng 开封 · Panda · 1 month ago
Yangshuo station is not in Yangshuo
Yangshuo 阳朔 · Panda · 1 month ago
Twenty minutes from Hangzhou, and worth a night rather than an outing
Shaoxing 绍兴 · Panda · 1 month ago
The free sights on Purple Mountain still need booking, and close on Mondays
Nanjing 南京 · Panda · 1 month ago
Two days in Guiyang, then get out to the villages
Guiyang 贵阳 · Panda · 1 month ago
Gulangyu ferries are real-name and leave from the terminal you did not expect
Xiamen 厦门 · Panda · 1 month ago
Kaifeng's mornings are the good part — walk Shudian Street early
Kaifeng 开封 · Panda · 1 month ago
An afternoon in a teahouse counts as a day's sightseeing here
Chengdu 成都 · Panda · 1 month ago
Use Guilin as a gateway and sleep among the peaks instead
Guilin 桂林 · Panda · 1 month ago
Two hours from Beijing, and worth an overnight rather than a day trip
Datong 大同 · Panda · 1 month ago
Eat in the lanes behind Zhongshan Road, not on Gulangyu's pastry street
Xiamen 厦门 · Panda · 1 month ago
Breakfast is rice noodles, and you assemble them yourself
Guilin 桂林 · Panda · 1 month ago
Visit Dayan, sleep in Shuhe or Baisha
Lijiang 丽江 · Panda · 1 month ago
One ticket covers the sights, and the wall is the best of them
Pingyao 平遥 · Panda · 1 month ago
Guozao: eat breakfast standing up, and finish before nine
Wuhan 武汉 · Panda · 1 month ago
January in Harbin is minus twenty — dress like the locals, not like a skier
Harbin 哈尔滨 · Panda · 1 month ago
Book Mogao a month out — it is the one thing you cannot improvise
Dunhuang 敦煌 · Panda · 1 month ago
Guizhou eats sour first and hot second — start with the fish
Guiyang 贵阳 · Panda · 1 month ago
Do the Gansu museum before you go west, not after
Lanzhou 兰州 · Panda · 1 month ago