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the big cities.
Rice terraces that turn to mirrors, roads above 4,000 metres, villages with their own festivals. Find the place, then ask a licensed local operator about the trip.
Yuanyang rice terraces · Photo: Jialiang Gao
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1,570 m
Yunnan · Dec–Mar
Yuanyang rice terraces
Hani farmers have kept up to 3,000 terrace steps per slope watered from forest springs for 1,300 years.
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3,000 m31°07′N · 102°54′E
Sichuan · Oct–Apr
Siguniang Shan
Four snow peaks above three valleys, the highest at 6,250 m, about four hours' drive from Chengdu.
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3,600 m37°46′N · 75°13′E
Xinjiang · May–Oct
Karakoram Highway to Tashkurgan
A road from Kashgar onto the Pamir, past Karakul Lake under 7,546 m Muztagh Ata, to Tajik Tashkurgan.
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Dunhuang and the Mogao Caves40°02′N · 94°48′E
Gansu · May–Oct
Dunhuang and the Mogao Caves
735 caves cut into a desert cliff from 366 CE to the 14th century, painted with Buddhist murals.
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833 m26°30′N · 108°10′E
Guizhou · Mar–May & Sep–Nov
Xijiang Miao village
Nearly 1,300 Miao households in wooden houses stacked tier on tier up a valley.
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2,670 m27°14′N · 100°08′E
Yunnan · Apr–May & Sep–Oct
Tiger Leaping Gorge high trail
A footpath high above the Jinsha River, between two snow peaks over 5,300 m, through Naxi hamlets.
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4,600 m28°22′N · 100°14′E
Sichuan
Yading
Three snow peaks named for three bodhisattvas, with glacial lakes at 4,600 m below them.
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1,386 m39°28′N · 75°59′E
Xinjiang
Kashgar old town and Sunday bazaar
A Silk Road oasis for over 2,000 years, where a Sunday market still trades sheep, cattle and camels.
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Zhangye Danxia38°55′N · 100°08′E
Gansu · Jun–Sep
Zhangye Danxia
Ridges striped red, orange and yellow, several hundred metres tall, carved by wind and rain.
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435 m52°58′N · 122°32′E
Heilongjiang · Dec–Jan & Sep–Oct
Harbin to Mohe by night train
An overnight train to China's northernmost city, where the national record low of −53.0 °C was set in 2023.
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