China city guides
These guides cover what a city is like. For the practical side of arriving — airport to city centre, local help — open the city page linked in each guide.
Guides
Chongqing
Chongqing is the clearest place to feel China's leap into the future — a 3D mountain city of stacked highways, light rail through buildings, and the neon cliff of Hongyadong. A strong 240h transit base in southwest China.
technological-modernityCity guidesGuilin
Guilin is the landscape Chinese ink painting was built to describe — a river winding between thousands of karst peaks, with Yangshuo and the Li River cruise a short hop away. Guilin Liangjiang (KWL) is one of the 240h transit ports, making it a scenic base in south China.
landscape-aestheticCity guidesXi'an
Xi'an is where China's living heritage is easiest to stand inside: an intact Ming-era city wall, the Terracotta Army, and the eastern anchor of the Silk Road — paired with a modern high-speed rail hub. A 240h transit gateway to the northwest.
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