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We’ve been bringing international guests to Dujiangyan Panda Valley since it opened in April 2015. Most of what English-language sites get wrong here comes from confusing it with the Dujiangyan Panda Base (熊猫乐园)…
The Mianyang Panda Base is China’s newest giant panda base, opened December 29, 2025, a 42-minute high-speed train ride north of Chengdu. We’ve followed it since the first 13 pandas were trucked in…
We have been taking clients to Bifengxia since 2006. Most come expecting a panda base and leave having spent a full day in a gorge with waterfalls, cliff coffins, and mountain air that…
This article is about one specific question: is the Zhangjiajie Ground Rift worth adding to your itinerary? We have been bringing international visitors to Zhangjiajie since 2006. We have walked this gorge in…
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is a protected natural area in Hunan Province, China, covering 4,810 hectares of quartzite sandstone pillar formations rising up to 200 meters from a subtropical valley floor. Established in…
Seven Star Mountain (Qixing Mountain, 张家界七星山) sits just across the valley from Tianmen Mountain — and at 1,528 meters, it’s actually 10 meters taller. Most visitors to Zhangjiajie don’t know that yet. That…
Baofeng Lake is the one place in Zhangjiajie that surprises people. Not because it’s more dramatic than the forest park — it isn’t. But after two days staring up at sandstone pillars, a…
Planning a Zhangjiajie trip and wondering whether the 72 Strange Buildings deserve a slot on your itinerary? We’ve been running China inbound tours for over 20 years and have walked through this complex…
This is a practical guide to Li River hiking between Yangdi and Xingping — the most scenic stretch of one of China’s most iconic landscapes. It covers the classic full route, shorter alternatives,…
Three weeks ago, I watched a tour bus stop at Shibaoshan’s entrance gate. Forty tourists got out, walked straight past Haiyunju Temple sitting 100 meters to their left, climbed back on the bus,…
The Baoxiang Temple is part of Shibao Mountain Scenic Area, with tickets covering Shizhongshan Grottoes and Haiyunju Temple. Most travelers rush to Shibaoshan for the famous Shizhongshan Grottoes. They see the ancient carvings. They…
Three months ago, we took a client couple from Germany to Shizhongshan Grottoes. They’d already visited Longmen and Yungang—two of China’s most famous Buddhist cave sites. But when they stood in front of…
