Best Wellness in China

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

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One of Asia's best hotel spas, with treatment rooms looking straight at the Bund skyline.

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Shanghai's liveliest morning: tai chi under the plane trees, then ballroom tango on the terrace.

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A 280-year-old Shanghai TCM brand - herbal clinics, tuina massage, and remedies that locals swear by.

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A spa above the Huangpu River with treatments built around traditional Chinese healing.

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Ride the full 14km circuit on top of Xi'an's Ming dynasty city wall as the sky turns amber.

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A century-old open-air teahouse in People's Park where Chengdu's famous leisure culture comes alive.

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A village of restored stone houses in a tea valley, minutes from the Lingyin Temple.

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The 1874 TCM hall called 'the Southern Tong Ren Tang' - diagnosis, herbs, and tuina in a Qing courtyard.

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A 13km coastal boardwalk with the Hong Kong skyline on the horizon - Shenzhen's best free therapy.

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Soak in hillside pools above the river in the hot spring town that predates Chongqing's skyscrapers.

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Guangdong's classic hot spring getaway, an hour into the hills behind Guangzhou.

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Harbin's boldest tradition: locals plunging into a hole cut in the frozen Songhua River.

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The classic Dali ritual: a day-long cycle around a lake ringed by Cangshan mountains.

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Ride to the top of the Cangshan range for pine forests, mountain air, and Erhai laid out below.

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Every winter, 10,000 Siberian gulls winter in Kunming's Green Lake - and the park becomes a feeding frenzy.

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A coral-fringed island off Sanya where the water is clear enough to see the fish from the boat.

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Sanya's classic beach: 7km of white sand and palm-backed water, the postcard Hainan coast.

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The imperial hot springs of Nanjing's Tangshan - soaking since the Ming dynasty, an hour from the city.

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Eight tree-lined avenues of colonial villas, ending at the most relaxing beach stroll in China.

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The sacred Taoist mountain that rises straight out of the Yellow Sea, its peaks wrapped in legend.

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Cycle Xiamen's coastal ring road - 43km of sea views, beaches, and the island's best air.

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Drift down the Yulong River on a bamboo raft, past water buffalo and the quietest karst in Guilin.

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Tengchong's 'sea of heat': volcanic pools, steaming riverbeds, and egg-cooking vents.

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Zhangzhou's answer to the beach: a rugged island of seafood, sand, and the 'wind-moving stone'.

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Ningbo's great lake - 45km of shoreline, cycling paths, and the fish that made the city's cuisine.

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Sleep inside the terraces: a mushroom-roofed Hani village, a dawn walk along the rice walls.

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One of the world's great treks: two days along a gorge where the Jinsha River fights its way through the mountains.

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Track one of the world's rarest primates - the white-headed langur, found nowhere else on earth.

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Mineral hot springs at the desert's edge, with TCM massage to undo a day of dunes and dust.