Travel by theme

China's highest vineyards grow on the terraces of the Jinsha and Lancang rivers in northwest Yunnan, where French missionaries planted the first vines a century ago and a new generation of winemakers is planting again.

The Shangri-La Wine Journey — seven days, eight wineries, with a wine team leader, departing any day from 8 to 30 October 2027 for four to eight guests — is being finished now. Register your interest below and we will send it to you first.

North-east of Beijing, beyond the day-trip range, the original Ming wall climbs from Gubeikou over Jinshanling to Simatai — towers open to the sky, steps worn to rubble, almost nobody up there.

Short trips out of the cities we know best, to the places their own residents go at the weekend — a slow train, an old railway, a lake, the right lunch.

Yunnan eats differently from the rest of China — wild mushrooms, Pu'er tea, Bai and Dai and Tibetan kitchens, markets at every altitude — and we are building journeys around the people who cook it.

The first culinary departures are being built now. Register your interest below and we will tell you when they are ready.

Alpine lakes, sacred valleys and a glacier or two, each walked with a local guide and a bed at the end of the day — the Shangri-La hikes first, with more short walks on the way.

More short hikes are being added. These four, around Shangri-La, are ready to book as part of a private journey.