The world's largest ice festival, held every winter in Harbin from early January, with whole palaces, castles and slides built from blocks of ice cut from the Songhua River, lit up in colour at night.
It's extremely cold, often −20°C or lower; dress in thermal layers. Harbin also has Russian-style architecture, like St Sophia Cathedral, and the Siberian Tiger Park.
A restored section of the Great Wall about 70 km north of Beijing, with 23 watchtowers along a forested ridge, less crowded than Badaling.
The vast imperial palace of the Ming and Qing emperors, home to 24 emperors from 1420 to 1912, with nearly a thousand buildings inside its moat and r…
A Ming dynasty complex where emperors prayed for good harvests, with the circular, triple-roofed Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, a masterpiece of C…
A vast imperial garden around Kunming Lake, the retreat of the Qing emperors and Empress Dowager Cixi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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…
Shanghai's riverside promenade lined with grand colonial-era banks and hotels, facing the futuristic skyline of Pudong across the Huangpu River, incl…
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