Guizhou
Guizhou is China’s best-kept secret — a cool, green plateau of waterfalls, karst villages and Miao and Dong minority culture, laced together by some of the world’s highest bridges. Few foreign travellers make it here; those who do rarely stop talking about it.
Places to visit
NatureFanjingshan
Fanjingshan is the strangest skyline in China: a 100-metre finger of rock called the Red Clouds Golden Summit, split in two with a temple on each half and a…
NatureHuangguoshu Waterfall
Huangguoshu is Asia’s biggest waterfall by width — a 77-metre-high, 101-metre-wide curtain of the Baishui River that you can hear a kilometre away in flood…
NeighborhoodXijiang Qianhu Miao Village
Xijiang is the largest Miao village in the world — more than a thousand wooden stilt houses stacked up two facing hillsides above a river of terraced paddies.…
NeighborhoodZhaoxing Dong Village
Zhaoxing is the largest Dong village in China, famous for its five drum towers — one per clan — and its wind-and-rain bridges, all built in timber without a…