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Nature & Wildlife

Chinese door in Hutong alley

Unexpected Luxury in the Gansu Wilderness

Just outside the of Labrang, a monastery town in western China’s Gansu province, is a secret so special it’s known to only a few outsiders. This is the Norden Camp, a luxurious accommodation in the...
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Fisherman in YangShuo

China Travel: Discover Mount Emei in Sichuan

Check out this on the road experience from WildChina’s travel product design manager, Colleen O’Connor, and discover an unknown trail situated deep in Emei’s sacred mountain range, just waiting to be explored…by you! We traveled...
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Girl praying at an ancient temple

Tour Erhai Lake by Bicycle

A WildChina employee takes off on an impromptu bike ride… Escaping Dali After exploring the bustling streets of Dalizhen in Yunnan Province, we needed an escape to mother nature. With the towering Cangshan Mountains encircling...
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Man looking after cattle on the Tibetan plateau

Tracking Gibbons in Ailaoshan’s Nature Reserve

This fall, our second 2012 WildChina Explorer Grant winners William Bleish and Yan lu will begin their expedition to the Aiolishan range in Yunnan. In January, William visited the region and put together a field...
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The mystic Yellow Mountain in Anhui

Musings on Mongolia

On the road from Ulaan Baatar to a ger camp You would think that China and Mongolia, countries with a lengthy common border and an inextricably linked history would boast at least superficial similarities but...
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Fisherman in YangShuo

Next Destination in Yunnan: Gaoligong Mountain Range

WildChina has always had a knack for predicting the next hot destination in China–for better or for worse.  We were the first to pioneer journeys to Yubeng village in Meili Snow Mountain in 1999 and...
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Buddhist sculpture and art

Traveler’s Voice: Can golden snub-nosed monkeys read?

This note was written by An Zhenyi (Ann), a WildChina  tour leader & travel consultant who recently traveled to Dapingyu Nature Reserve to observe China’s golden snub-nosed monkeys. ———- In October, I assisted in leading...
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Candles in a Buddhist temple

Ghosts and ‘Ka’ (Snow)

The following is an excerpt from Jeff Fuchs’ Tea and Mountain Journals, a blog by explorer, photographer and writer Jeff Fuchs.  Jeff is the 2011 recipient of WildChina’s Explorer Grant.  He and friend Michael Kleinwort are currently...
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Candles in a Buddhist temple

Wildlife tourism & visitor expectations in Changqing: Balancing the needs between people & animals

‘Ah, we were so close today’.  After 11 days of hiking in Changqing National Nature Reserve our American visitor, Chris, finally got to see a wild giant panda, but it was very fleeting.  With only a...
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Beautiful night in an old town in Yunnan

Development vs conservation in Yunnan

Beautiful and diverse, southwestern China’s Yunnan province is not only one of our most popular destinations, it is where WildChina was born. In the initial stages of China’s dizzyingly fast modernization, Yunnan avoided much of...
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