Travel Diaries
2-Day Cultural Route: Museums, Temples & Pagodas
It rained for the first time in two weeks the day I finally got into the Shaanxi History M…
Stories, guides and local perspectives from the ancient capital — food, history and the roads less travelled.
It rained for the first time in two weeks the day I finally got into the Shaanxi History M…
The first time I tried to hike in the Qinling, I missed the mountains entirely. A Saturday…
The alarm went off at 04:00 and I was already awake, watching the square of window lighten…
The first time I saw the Bell Tower, I wasn’t even trying to see it. I’d come …
The high-speed train slid out of Xi’an North Station at 06:40, and thirty minutes la…
By the fourth day of my first backpacking trip through China, I had stopped counting the p…
The first thing you notice about the Small Wild Goose Pagoda is the quiet. I stepped out o…
The hostel bed near the South Gate set me back ¥70 a night, and the first thing the recept…
I rode the escalator up from Dayanta metro station at half past six on a mild October even…
