
Golden Triangle
The essential first-timer route — Beijing's Forbidden City, Xian's Terracotta Warriors, and Shanghai's futuristic skyline.
Day-by-day itineraries across 18 regions — built from real local knowledge, not agency copy. Pick a route or browse by region.
From the Great Wall in the north to the karst peaks in the south — every region tells a different story.

The essential first-timer route — Beijing's Forbidden City, Xian's Terracotta Warriors, and Shanghai's futuristic skyline.

Silk Road cities, alpine lakes at 3,600m, the Karakoram Highway, and the vast Taklamakan Desert.

Ancient towns, Tibetan foothills, Tiger Leaping Gorge, and tropical Xishuangbanna.

Pandas, hotpot, Jiuzhaigou's turquoise lakes, and the road to Tibet via Daocheng Yading.

The 20 RMB note landscape — karst peaks, the Li River, and ancient rice terraces.

Asia's largest waterfall, thousand-household Miao villages, and the Buddhist summit of Fanjingshan.

Shanghai's skyline, Hangzhou's West Lake, Suzhou's classical gardens, and ancient water towns.

Walk through 3,000 years of Chinese imperial history — Xian, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Pingyao & Datong.

Rainbow mountains, desert fortresses, the Mogao Caves, and the Hexi Corridor.

Potala Palace, turquoise alpine lakes, Everest Base Camp at 5,150m, and Tibetan Buddhist monasteries.

The world's largest ice festival in Harbin, and the volcanic crater lake of Changbaishan.

Hakka earthen roundhouses (tulou), the Maritime Silk Road port of Quanzhou, and Wuyishan tea mountains.

Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour dim sum, Macau's Portuguese lanes, Guangzhou's Canton Tower, and Hainan's tropical beaches.

The Avatar mountains — 3,000 sandstone pillars rising through mist, plus the world's longest glass bridge.

China's most painted mountain — granite peaks, ancient pines, hot springs, and Huizhou villages.

Tsingtao beer in Qingdao, Confucius' hometown of Qufu, and the sacred Mount Tai.

Misty Lushan Mountain and the thousand-year-old porcelain kilns of Jingdezhen.

Cruise through the Three Gorges — the world's largest dam, sheer limestone cliffs, and misty tributaries.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA licenses. Full credits available on each route page.
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