One atlas per city. Every fact checked on the ground and dated — real prices, closure days, and how to book with a foreign passport.
China changes faster than travel blogs. Payment apps change, booking flows change, gates move. So every entry carries the day we last stood there.
Tickets go live five days ahead at 17:00 on the museum's WeChat account, one per ID per day. Passports can book; if you miss out, buy the paid mural-gallery ticket and skip the scramble.
Verified2026.08.18Chengdu's panda base opens at 7:30 in summer and 8:00 in winter. Pandas are most active early and go indoors once it gets hot. Afternoon tickets mean fewer people and fewer pandas — and the base won't let you in early.
Verified2026.08.18Shenzhen's land crossings — Luohu, Futian and the rest — are not on the designated-port list. To use it, take the high-speed train via West Kowloon or the ferry to Shekou.
Verified2026.08.18Eight cities, each researched the same way: first the places worth your time, then the things that trip you up on the spot, then what to eat. The structure stays; the colours change with the city.
Over five hundred places across eight cities, each with its real price in yuan, closing days and how a foreign passport books — checked on the spot and dated. Decision pages do the comparing for you.
Open the city atlasWhether a foreign passport can book, how to buy tickets without WeChat, where foreign cards work, whether metro gates take them — one page per city, plus one page of answers for all of China.
Getting by in ChinaDozens of must-eat dishes per city: where to go, how to order, how to tell the real thing; and a month-by-month page for what is in season now.
See Chengdu's must-eatsWhen you're ready to commit, the planner takes over — it reads the same atlas and builds your days around real opening hours, real prices, real closure days.
A full itinerary drafted from the atlas — grouped by neighbourhood so you're not crossing the city twice.
Forward flight, hotel and train confirmations — they land on the right day by themselves.
Visa rules and a packing list — checked for your passport, not a generic one.
Free, no account, English and 中文. More cities are on the drawing board.
