Places

Fourteen ways in.

Filter by region or by the reason you would go. Search also catches dishes — try duck, hotpot, or dunes.

14 cities

North · 3 nights

Courtyards, coal-scented lanes, and a palace that still sets the clock for the rest of the country.

Northwest · 2 nights

An old capital that still eats lamb, wheat, and chili oil inside a complete city wall.

East · 3 nights

A treaty-port grid that learned to cook, shop, and stay up later than the rest of the east coast.

East · 2 nights

White walls, timed gardens, and an old town that is still a place people bike to work.

East · 2 nights

A lake everyone has already seen in a painting, and tea slopes that earn the extra night.

Southwest · 3 nights

A flat, green, food-obsessed city that would rather pour you tea than rush you across town.

Southwest · 2 nights

A mountain port where the map lies, because the street you want is eight floors above you.

Central · 2 nights

A national park of quartzite spires that should be walked, not collected from a single glass lift.

South · 3 nights

The painting of limestone peaks is a real boat ride — and a town downstream where you should sleep.

South · 2 nights

The city that invented the long breakfast, and still takes it more seriously than sightseeing.

South · 2 nights

Fujian's relaxed port, with Gulangyu's villas a short ferry from the downtown waterfront.

Southwest · 3 nights

A Naxi old town that is overcrowded at the center and calm two streets away — if you sleep high enough to feel it.

Northwest · 2 nights

A Silk Road oasis where the art is rationed by ticket and the dunes are best at the edge of the day.

Northeast · 2 nights

A northeastern winter capital that justifies the coat you do not own yet.