This fascinating area offers a perfect blend of age-old traditions, cutting-edge innovation and ecology, stunning natural scenery in mountainous regions, charming cities and ancient towns. Throughout your journey, you’ll sample sublime Chinese cuisine everywhere, particularly in the Sichuan region. China is a vast country that’s perfect for travelling around by train. And that makes for a long journey full of new discoveries. Great to get to southwest China from Shanghai. During the summer, popular spots can get quite busy with Chinese tourists. So spring and autumn are brilliant times to visit. Provinces Sichuan, Yunnan and Chongqing are particularly brilliant destinations. Through the ‘Soothing Places’ videos, you’ll discover five specific places that are excellent suggestions for independent travellers. Wulingyuan is an amazing national park and Chongqing city is charming in the Yuzhong district. The three other places are less well-known and remote: Wumu, Lugu Lake and Gongtan Ancient Town. During travel, it’s enjoyable to combine popular and impressive unknown places:
Gongtan Ancient Town
Wumu
Wulingyuan National Park
Lugu Lake
Chongqing: Yuzhong district
Many other places in China are acceptable, but clearly South-west China is a favourite destination for relaxing nature holidays. Also other places in provinces Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan are worth a visit.
In Yunnan, you’ll probably arrive in the capital Kunming. Quite posh to and there you realise how brilliant it is to travel towards Tibet and Sichuan so you can visit Dali, Lijiang, Wumu and Lugu Lake.
In Sichuan, you’ll easily arrive in the capital, Chengdu. There, you can fully savour Sichuan cuisine – the best food in China. In terms of flora and fauna, South-West China is the most impressive region. Near Chengdu, you’ll discover the Giant Panda National Park.
As there are many options to organize your travel, it’s great to go to specific soothing places so you will have a happy travel.