wildlife and nature
Top 10 ways to delve into Hong Kong’s underbellyAug 17, 2010 • 5 min read
Hong Kong is a place that provokes questions, some without answers. Those five-star hotels and soaring skyscrapers are first world, but those crumbling…
China Travel Stories
- artTop 10 Shanghai pastimes
Jul 23, 2010 • 5 min read
You can’t see the Great Wall from space, but you’d have a job missing Shanghai. One of China’s biggest and most vibrant cities, it is heading places the…
artNanjie Cun: the village that time forgotJul 19, 2010 • 3 min read
Little known to the outside world, a radical community defiantly out of step with the rest of China survives at the heart of slow-moving Henan…
artThe Hakka earth buildings of FujianJul 19, 2010 • 4 min read
Strewn across the hills where the three provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong merge, the colossal Hakka earth buildings (Kejia tulou) are a…
- artHutong alleyways: Old Beijing at its timeless best
Jul 17, 2010 • 3 min read
China's capital may be racing towards the future at breakneck speed but sneak behind one of the city's glittering, ultra-modern tower blocks and you find…
- artBeijing's once Forbidden City
Jul 11, 2010 • 4 min read
Once home to China’s emperors, the Forbidden City was the very heart of the country for five centuries and even now exerts a powerful pull on the nation’s…
7 reasons to visit Eastern TibetJun 22, 2010 • 3 min read
It's a pain in the backside to get permits for, and many places are still off limits to foreigners, but here are seven reasons why eastern Tibet should be…
Bunk with the monks in Tibetan SichuanJun 18, 2010 • 2 min read
Monks debating in the courtyard of Dagei Gompa monastery. Image by Daniel McCrohan / Lonely Planet.
- beachesHiking China's Sunshine Coast
Jun 18, 2010 • 3 min read
Imagine a 4km hiking trail that's built into a sheer rock face, looking out onto a forest of fantastical granite spires and a gorgeous canopy sprinkled…
- budget travelThe top 5 free attractions in Macau
Dec 11, 2009 • 3 min read
Macau is an island of superlatives.
wildlife and natureHunting with the LisuNov 10, 2009 • 3 min read
Down in the Nu Valley, in a remote western corner of China's Yunnan province, life revolves around the mighty Nu Jiang (Nu River). The river is usually…
artTaking the stage in ShaxiNov 9, 2009 • 3 min read
Once an important stop on the old tea-trading route, quiet Shaxi has been carefully preserved, and its ancient town square is well worth a visit – when…
artKhampa yakboys in Shangri-laNov 9, 2009 • 4 min read
Since it was renamed 'Shangri-la' by savvy officials 2001, remote Zhongdian has popped up on the Chinese travel circuit. The old town is now a warren of…
- Are you fluent in Chinglish?
Sep 21, 2009 • 2 min read
Wherever you glance in China, you enter the through-the-mirror world of Chinglish. You may at first be confused by a sign that says 'Be Seated Defecate',…
- Jackie Chan's dream itinerary: China
Jun 30, 2009 • 2 min read
We asked international film star Jackie Chan what his perfect trip through China would look like. Here's what he told us.