Man looking after cattle on the Tibetan plateau

Time running out to book your 2011 China journey

Nobody likes to be hurried, but if you’ve been putting off deciding whether you’re going to travel to China later this year, now is an ideal time to make those plans. As this recent travel...

WildChinaJeff Fuchs, Beijing, Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan route, Shanghai, wild China, WildChina, WildChina Travel, Xi'an, Yunnan, Shangri-La, Travel to China, NY Times

March 11, 2011

Trail Tribulations

Ancient tea and Horse Caravan Trip: The following is an excerpt from “Trail Tribulations” by Paul Mooney, South China Morning Post ———– Ouyang Shangxian worked briefly on the trail. His classic Shaxi courtyard house is...

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Beautiful night in an old town in Yunnan

March 9, 2011

Development vs conservation in Yunnan

Beautiful and diverse, southwestern China’s Yunnan province is not only one of our most popular destinations, it is where WildChina was born. In the initial stages of China’s dizzyingly fast modernization, Yunnan avoided much of...

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March 8, 2011

Tibet Travel Ban Doesn’t Include All of China’s Tibetan Regions

Tibet travel ban doesn’t include all of China’s Tibetan regions. Unfortunate travel news out of Tibet: foreign travelers are not being allowed into Tibet this month and no clear timetable for when they will be...

TibetSichuan, wild China, WildChina, WildChina Travel, Yunnan, Tibet, qinghai

January 26, 2011

Want to experience China differently? Go west!

As noted earlier, China is already the world’s number-three destination for international travel. Many travelers nowadays have already made one or two trips to China, but more often than not, they’re visiting the coast, possibly...

TibetSichuan, wild China, WildChina, WildChina Travel, Guizhou, Yunnan, First-timers, Xinjiang

January 21, 2011

Home for the Holidays: China’s Busiest Travel Season

Today marks the beginning of the busiest travel season in China: from January 21 to February 27, China’s skies, roads, and rails will be inundated as an expected 640 million people, from every corner of...

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January 12, 2011

South of the Clouds: Shaxi, Yunnan, China

The following post is an excerpt from Catherine Bodry, a writer for AOL’s Gadling Travel Blog. Once an important market town on China’s ancient tea-horse road, Shaxi is one of seemingly very few Chinese villages that have...

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January 5, 2011

Dai food: Chinese cuisine’s best-kept secret

Dai food: Chinese cuisine’s best-kept secret. While most of China is frozen or at least quite cold, there are still some parts of the country’s south that are enjoying shorts and t-shirt weather during the...

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December 6, 2010

On the road in Xishuangbanna: The Manfeilong Stupas

China is filled with cultural and historical treasures dating back centuries, even millennia, but it is a sad truth that the number of valuable sites and relics diminished greatly in the past 200 years, primarily...

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December 2, 2010

Traditional papermaking still alive in Xishuangbanna

During a recent visit to Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan Province we stopped by the small but industrious village of Manzhao, which is known throughout the region for its traditional papermaking. The people of Manzhao are...

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