Beijing

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Expert-led sustainable travel across remote China, from silk-road caravans to village homestays.

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The most iconic contemporary Peking duck experience, with a crisp skin that snaps like glass.

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Hands-on cooking classes and cultural workshops in a restored courtyard near the Drum Tower.

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A private wing of the Summer Palace where Ming dynasty courtyards become a world-class spa retreat.

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Beijing's favorite roast duck with the best seat in town: a window table overlooking the Forbidden City moat.

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Dine inside a Qing prince's mansion where staff bow in court costume and address you as 'Your Highness'.

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Modern European fine dining inside a converted Ming dynasty temple - one of Beijing's great rooms.

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Beijing's sprawling weekend flea market: jade, calligraphy, Mao memorabilia, and everything in between.

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Beijing's most trusted private tour operator: historians, drivers, and itineraries built around you.

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Beijing's best food tours: back-alley noodle shops, dumpling joints, and the stories behind them.

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Professional photography tours of China's most photogenic places - including the Great Wall at dawn.

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White-glove, fully private travel in China - from Forbidden City lunches to convoyed transfers.

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China's most famous pharmacy - a 350-year-old TCM institution offering consultations, massage, and remedies.

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A kilometer of tea shops where Beijing's tea trade happens - sample, bargain, and ship home the good stuff.

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Beijing's street of antiques, calligraphy, and old books - where the city's literati have shopped for 400 years.

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The Ming emperor's prayer hall - a blue-tiled masterpiece, one of the most photographed sights in China.

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Beijing's most famous teahouse: opera, acrobatics, and face-changing acts with a cup of jasmine tea.

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A modern traditional Chinese medicine clinic by the Forbidden City, with English-speaking doctors and direct international insurance billing.

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Beijing's Michelin three-star vegetarian temple, tucked into a courtyard off Wudaoying Hutong.

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Xiaotangshan's most established hot-spring resort, where Beijingers go to soak, swim, and unplug for a weekend.

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A sprawling hot-spring and spa estate in the Xiaotangshan valley, famous for its outdoor pools in the winter cold.

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Hot springs, water slides, and spa cabins under one roof - the most playful bathhouse complex in the capital.

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A rambling courtyard restaurant near the Lama Temple serving refined Beijing classics with old-school flair.

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A Michelin-starred reimagining of Beijing cuisine, plating heritage flavors with the drama of modern gastronomy.

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Beijing's definitive Shandong fine-dining house, where the cuisine that once fed the imperial court is served with quiet luxury.

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A Michelin-recognized chef's table in a restored hutong courtyard, serving quietly radical modern Chinese cooking.

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A candle-lit hutong school near the Lama Temple running cooking, kung fu, calligraphy, and tea workshops for foreigners.

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The 350-year-old temple of Chinese art supplies on Liulichang, where masters buy their brushes, ink, and paper.

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The story of a boy's path to kung fu mastery, told with a cast of 40 martial artists - no language needed.

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Beijing's most energetic crosstalk comedy club, packing a 200-year-old art form into sold-out nightly shows.

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The 1853 shoemaker that fitted the Qing court, still hand-making velvet boots and embroidered slippers today.

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The 1862 silk emporium that dressed the last empress, with bolts of brocade and made-to-measure qipao.

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Watch cloisonné being made by hand - wire by wire, color by color - then shop the factory's own showroom.

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The 1865 ink house on Liulichang whose sticks and liquid ink have filled the brushes of China's greatest painters.

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Liulichang's master brush-maker, hand-binding weasel-hair brushes in a workshop older than most museums.

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Beijing's most foreigner-friendly Peking opera house, where silk robes, painted faces, and sword dances take the stage nightly.