Tourism

Central Asia is fun — perhaps a little too much fun.

I should have stayed in Kuala Lumpur longer to learn to like it. But I didn’t.

For hundreds of years Fenghuang was a backwater of China, now it’s one of the countries biggest tourist desinations. How did this happen?

“What sort of ill-wrought churls would commandeer a sick man’s breakfast table?” Michael Britton asks as his abode — and sustenance — is unabashedly commandeered by callous tour groups.

I decided to find the place that influenced Chinese landscape painting, so I went to Zhangjiajie in Wulingyuan.

Tourism and conservation, the Catch-22 of the “Extinction Capital of the World.”

Tourism in China may not be what you expect, but it’s pretty good none the less.

The best way to travel in China is to strike out in a random direction and check out what’s there. Stay away from the tourist attractions, find your own path.

It is easy to get off the beaten path when traveling: you just walk out of any city on earth and you’re there. It’s easy to leave the tourists with backpacks behind: just go to places you’ve never heard of before. Don’t want to go to the same destination as everyone else? Get off bus. [...]