Thousands of life-sized clay soldiers, archers, horses and chariots, each with an individual face, buried to guard the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, in 210 BC, and discovered by farmers in 1974. Pit 1 holds rows of more than 6,000 figures.
Book tickets with your passport. A guide helps make sense of it. It's about an hour from Xi'an. In Xi'an, cycle the city walls and eat in the Muslim Quarter.
The most complete ancient city wall in China, a 14 km Ming dynasty rampart with gates and towers, wide enough to cycle around; bikes are for hire on …
More than 2,000 caves and niches along the Yi River with around 100,000 Buddhist statues carved between the 5th and 10th centuries, from tiny figures…
One of the best-preserved walled towns in China, with Ming and Qing dynasty streets, courtyard houses, temples, and the first banks in China, a UNESC…
A valley in the mountains of northern Sichuan with lakes of astonishing blue and green, waterfalls and Tibetan villages, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Thousands of towering sandstone pillars rising from forested valleys, often wrapped in mist, which inspired the floating mountains in the film Avatar.
A research and breeding centre for giant pandas in a large bamboo park in Chengdu, where you can see adult pandas, cubs and red pandas.
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