Four ways into a Boutique China trip
Four lenses we shape trips through. Each is its own world with dedicated guides, the right gear and the right seasons — and any of them can sit inside a longer Yunnan or Sichuan itinerary, or stand alone.
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Living Heritage
Yunnan's living-heritage towns and villages — the markets, tea rituals, Lisu choirs and Bai courtyards where the place itself is the experience. Six heritage stops we route inside longer Yunnan trips, each in its own pocket of the province.
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Ultimate Hikes
Southwest China's biggest mountain country — multi-day treks, Tibetan pilgrim koras and the snow-mountain hike most travellers think is unreachable. Each route is a tested, guided experience that slots into a longer Yunnan or Sichuan trip — or stands alone.
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Photography Journeys
Trips designed around the picture you came for — pre-dawn light at a bird hide, blue hour on Erhai, the ten minutes Kawagarbo turns gold. We work with photographer-guides who know their species and their windows; you bring the lenses.
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Family Holidays
China is harder for families than the brochures suggest — long drives, language gaps, kids who hate temple #4. We've built family-friendly trips that solve those things: pandas, soft hikes, slow boats, hot springs, food worth a long flight, and the kind of pacing that lets everyone sleep at dinner.
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Tea Journeys
Yunnan's tea mountains the way the tea families work them — Nannuo's 400-to-800-year-old ancient trees with Hani harvesters, the UNESCO-inscribed Bulang and Dai heritage landscape at Jingmai, hands-on Pu'er cake-making at a Relais & Châteaux tea manor, and the Bulang fire-pit roasted-tea ritual at a five-suite Mangjing retreat.