Huge round and square earthen houses built by the Hakka people from the 12th century, each home to a whole clan, with rooms around a central courtyard, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Tianluokeng cluster, of four round and one square tulou, is the most photographed.
Some tulou offer simple rooms. They're in the hills of south-western Fujian, about 3 hours from Xiamen.
A range of granite peaks rising above a sea of clouds, with twisted pine trees growing from the rocks, which inspired centuries of Chinese painting a…
A village of white-walled Huizhou houses with black-tiled roofs, built around a half-moon pond and a lake that reflect the houses, with water channel…
A river winding between hundreds of tall limestone karst peaks, the landscape on China's 20-yuan note.
A famous lake surrounded by hills, pagodas, temples and gardens, celebrated by poets for centuries, 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.
Suzhou's classical gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are miniature landscapes of ponds, rocks, pavilions and windows framing views.
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