China travel guide
Before you go to China
- Currency
- CNY ¥
- Emergency number
- 110 / 110
- Plug type
- A, C, I
- Tap water
- Not potable
- Tipping
- Not customary
- Bargaining
- Common
- eSIM
- Available
- Card networks
- UnionPay, Visa (limited), Mastercard (limited), Amex (limited)
- ATM fees
- CNY 0-100 at the local end plus your home-bank foreign-withdrawal fee
Cities in China
- Beijing China's capital and 3,000-year-old political and cultural heart — home to the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Temple of Heaven and…
- Shanghai China's dazzling financial capital where the colonial Bund faces the futuristic Lujiazui skyline across the Huangpu River, threaded with…
- Guangzhou The sprawling capital of Guangdong and cradle of Cantonese cuisine, blending 2,000 years of trade history at Shamian and Yuexiu with the…
- Xi'an The ancient capital of thirteen dynasties and eastern terminus of the Silk Road, ringed by an intact Ming city wall and guarded by the…
- Guilin Set among the surreal karst peaks of the Li River, Guilin and neighbouring Yangshuo offer China's most iconic river-and-mountain scenery,…
- Hangzhou A byword for Chinese beauty for a thousand years, Hangzhou wraps around the willow-fringed West Lake, tea terraces of Longjing and the…
- Chengdu Sichuan's laid-back capital famed for giant pandas, fiery hotpot, teahouse culture and easy access to Leshan's Grand Buddha and the…
- Suzhou The 'Venice of the East', a canal city of UNESCO-listed classical gardens, silk workshops and old-town water lanes an hour from Shanghai by…