Travel Reads > China
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• Abandoned ‘Titanic’, failing ‘ancient towns’: Why China’s tourism boom leaves white elephants behind [The Business Times]
“Many ambitious megaprojects across the country have stalled or failed to attract visitors.”
• Shanghai, according to Xiaohongshu [Peking Quack]
“For its 376 million users, this Chinese lifestyle app is a gospel. Want a good restaurant? A fun weekend plan? A trending photo spot? Just search on the app, and you’ll find posts titled things like “Highly recommend for good photos,” “High photo success rate,” or “Best photo spots here.””
• Hetou: The Chinese village I’ve been visiting for 13 years [Ming Khor]
• How Chongqing in China offers an enthralling ‘8D’ experience like nothing else [SCMP]
“With its vertical landscape, vibrant food scene and captivating chaos, the Chinese city of Chongqing is certain to catch you unprepared.”
• Short of breath, but finding peace, at 18,000 feet (archive) [NY Times Travel]
“A writer grapples with the death of her sister, and the end of a marriage, during a challenging trek in Tibet.”
• Visiting my accountant in Pakistan Part 1: Kashgar, the journey begins [Ming Khor]
“Eating my way through the ancient silk road to reach my accountant.”
• Chongqing: The Anthony Bourdain episode that never was [Randomwire]
“Though Anthony Bourdain visited neighbouring Chengdu twice—once for No Reservations (2006) and again for Parts Unknown (2016), he never visited Chongqing (重庆), which is a shame because I think it would have been right in his wheelhouse. This is what I imagine he might have written if he had.”
• The Gobi was easy. China is complicated. [Ride with Ian]
“Biking to Japan Week #48.”
• Hiking the old Tibetan village and potato picking – the Chinese way [Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones]
• Into the wild [Tales of the Orient by Simon Ostheimer]
“How a side journey on the way to climb one of China’s most famous peaks, became an adventure all of its own.”
• China broke our brains [Brent and Michael Are Going Places]
“We expected to be shocked and transformed. We were.”
• Walking Zhengzhou (China) [Chris Arnade Walks the World]
“A rust belt city, without the rust.”
• A week in Chengdu [Asia Sentinel]
“Our traveling correspondent finds a native animal almost too cute to bear.”
• Digging for the deeper story in Yunnan’s “Tibet Disneyland” [Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones]
• “Dalifornication” grips China (archive) [The Economist]
“On tour with the low-income leisure class.”
• From drones to robots: tourists flock to China to glimpse a ‘cyberpunk’ future (archive) [SCMP]
“Social media hype about China’s ‘futuristic’ technology and urban infrastructure is attracting a growing wave of foreign tourists.”
• Road trip to Xinjiang [Hua’s Substack]
“Seeing-is-believing beauty.”
