FarFlightTravel in China

Classic 7-Day Tours

One region, deeply — 15 curated routes in three pacing styles

Compact

Packed itineraries — see as much as possible, move fast · 3 routes

Central Plains Heritage7 daysCompact

Central Plains Heritage

Longmen's Buddhas, Mount Laojun, Shaolin kungfu and Kaifeng's painted scroll

  • Longmen's Fengxian Temple — the 17-m Vairocana at river level
  • Mount Laojun's golden Taoist shrine at 2,200 m
  • Shaolin's dawn kungfu class and the 250-pagoda forest
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Wuhan to Zhangjiajie Explorer7 daysCompact

Wuhan to Zhangjiajie Explorer

River towers and lake greenways, then the avatar pillars and Fenghuang's lantern river

  • Yuanjiajie's pillar fields from the Hallelujah-mountain deck
  • Tianmen's 99-bend road and cliff-hugging glass skywalk
  • The Yellow Crane Tower's bend-of-the-river view at night
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Northeast Winter Circuit7 daysCompact

Northeast Winter Circuit

Harbin's ice city, Changbai's sky lake and Changchun's imperial film history

  • Ice and Snow World's glowing castles and 100-m slides
  • Changbai's Heaven Lake — a volcanic crater rimmed in snow
  • The puppet palace where the last emperor was installed
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Comfortable

Balanced pace — moderate rhythm, fewer hops per day · 8 routes

Beijing & Xi'an: The Imperial Core7 daysComfortable

Beijing & Xi'an: The Imperial Core

Seven days through two ancient capitals — walls, warriors, dumplings and dynasties

  • Sunrise-to-sunset Great Wall day at Badaling with the Ming Tombs
  • Chengde Mountain Resort option — the Qing emperors' summer escape
  • Terracotta Army plus the hot-spring palace where the last Tang emperor fled
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East Coast Panorama7 daysComfortable

East Coast Panorama

Shanghai → water towns → Hangzhou → Huangshan: mega-city to misty peak

  • The Bund and Pudong's tower decks at blue hour
  • Wuzhen after dark — lanterns on black-water canals
  • Longjing tea village and West Lake by open-top boat
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Chengdu, Leshan & Mt Emei7 daysComfortable

Chengdu, Leshan & Mt Emei

Pandas, the Grand Buddha and a sacred Buddhist mountain in Sichuan's gentle embrace

  • Panda base at cub-feeding time (07:30)
  • Leshan Buddha from a river boat — the full 71-m profile
  • Golden Summit sunrise above the clouds at 3,077 m
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Yunnan Highlands: Dali & Lijiang7 daysComfortable

Yunnan Highlands: Dali & Lijiang

Ethnic towns, lake light and snow peaks on China's roof-of-the-south plateau

  • Lijiang Old Town's canals and rooftop cafés at dawn (before tours)
  • Cable car onto Jade Dragon Snow Mountain's 4,506 m glacier deck
  • Cycling the Erhai lake shore past Bai villages
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Zhangjiajie & Fenghuang7 daysComfortable

Zhangjiajie & Fenghuang

Avatar peaks, glass bridges and a lantern-lit river town in Hunan's misty mountains

  • The Avatar peaks of Yuanjiajie at sunrise mist
  • Tianmen Mountain cable car and the cliff-walk glass skyway
  • Grand Canyon glass bridge — transparent 430 m above the floor
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Beijing, Datong & Chengde7 daysComfortable

Beijing, Datong & Chengde

Imperial Beijing, the Yungang caves and the Qing mountain resort — the northern arc

  • The Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven without the rush
  • Yungang's 17-metre cave colossi, 1,500 years old
  • Chengde's imperial resort — the Qing's summer palace and its eight temples
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Chengdu & Jiuzhaigou Alpine Lakes7 daysComfortable

Chengdu & Jiuzhaigou Alpine Lakes

Pandas and teahouses, then the fairy-tale lakes and Huanglong's calcite terraces

  • Jiuzhaigou's five-colour lakes and double waterfalls
  • Huanglong's 3.5-km calcite terrace, the 'yellow dragon'
  • Pandas at the 08:00 feeding, then bamboo-chair tea
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Wudang & Wuhan7 daysComfortable

Wudang & Wuhan

Taoist temples in the clouds, chime bells by the river — Hubei's twin poles

  • The Golden Shrine of Wudang crowning Tianzhu peak at sunrise
  • Tai-chi dawn on the Purple Cloud palace courts
  • The Nanyang and Fawang temples' cliff-side walkways
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Relaxed

Slow travel — deep, easy-going, experience over checklist · 4 routes

Xiamen Coast & the Hakka Tulou7 daysRelaxed

Xiamen Coast & the Hakka Tulou

Island café air, World-Heritage earthen fortresses and Wuyi tea cliffs

  • Gulangyu Island — no cars, 19th-century consulates, organ museum
  • Overnight in a tulou: the round 'earthen castles' of the Hakka
  • Wuyishan bamboo rafting the Nine-Bend River through tea cliffs
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Fujian Maritime Silk Road7 daysRelaxed

Fujian Maritime Silk Road

Fuzhou's lane quarters, Quanzhou's medieval mosques and Xiamen's island airs

  • Gulangyu's piano lanes and colonial villas, car-free
  • Quanzhou's Kaiyuan temples and the Qingyuan Laozi statue
  • Fuzhou's Sanfang Qixiang lane-city of 200 Ming mansions
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Guizhou Waterfall Country7 daysRelaxed

Guizhou Waterfall Country

Asia's largest cascade, the Longgong cave rivers and Qingyan's stone lanes

  • Huangguoshu's Great Fall thundering into the Rhinoceros pool
  • Walking behind the waterfall's water curtain cave
  • Longgong's boat ride through a river-lit cave system
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Yunnan South: Banna & Puzhehei7 daysRelaxed

Yunnan South: Banna & Puzhehei

Kunming's spring city, Xishuangbanna's rainforest temples and Puzhehei's lotus lakes

  • Xishuangbanna's tropical botanical garden — 11 km² of rainforest
  • Dai golden temples and peacock dances at Menghun
  • Puzhehei's boat maze through lotus fields and karst
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