Xining
PreeChina · City Guide Xining The last major city before the road climbs onto the Tibetan Plateau — where China’s […]
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Zhangye
PreeChina · City Guide Zhangye The city that holds the most visually astonishing geological formation in China — where 24
Aba
PreeChina · Destination Guide Aba — Jiuzhaigou & Huanglong The most visually extraordinary landscape in China — where Jiuzhaigou’s multicolour
Pingxiang
PreeChina · City Guide Pingxiang Where soaring alpine meadows float above the clouds, ancient Chan Buddhist monasteries cling to misty
Qiqihar
PreeChina · City Guide Qiqihar China’s Crane City — where the world’s most endangered crane breeds in vast reed wetlands,
Songyuan
PreeChina · City Guide Songyuan Home to China’s most spectacular winter ice fishing festival, a vast freshwater lake that never
Baicheng
PreeChina · City Guide Baicheng Where China’s most important crane sanctuary spreads across a vast wetland mosaic, Mongolian grassland meets
Hinggan
PreeChina · City Guide Hinggan League Where volcanic craters hold turquoise lakes, the Greater Khingan taiga forest blazes gold in
Chifeng
PreeChina · City Guide Chifeng Where the jade dragon that awakened Chinese civilization was found, volcanic crater lakes reflect birch
Ordos
PreeChina · City Guide Ordos Where the mausoleum of the world’s greatest conqueror rises from the grassland, the Kubuqi Desert