Destinations / The North
Beijing北京
Imperial courts and living hutongs — a capital where 700 years of history runs alongside a morning market's chaos.
The city, plainly
Beijing rewards the traveler who walks. Behind the avenues lie hutong neighborhoods where families have steamed dumplings for generations, temples where locals practice tai chi at dawn, and a food culture running from imperial banquet to lamb-skew street corners. The monumental — the Great Wall, the Forbidden City — sits twenty minutes from the everyday.
What we never skip
The Wall, before the crowds
A dawn walk on a wild, unrestored section with your guide and thermos tea — the way locals who love it actually do it.
Hutong life, from the inside
Calligraphy with a master in his courtyard, dumplings folded at a family table, ping-pong in the lane.
Healing traditions
A licensed TCM consultation, tuina bodywork, and qigong in Temple of Heaven park among the morning regulars.
Experiences in Beijing
Tai Chi & Baduanjin at Dawn太极 · 八段锦
Join the park regulars — not a tourist class — as a master takes you through the opening forms, then tea and sesame biscuits after.
1.5 hours, morning
Calligraphy in a Courtyard Studio书法
Grind your own ink and learn the eight strokes that build ten thousand characters, in a working hutong studio.
2.5 hours
Dumplings with a Hutong Family包饺子
Fold dumplings around a family table, argue about fillings, and eat the results with the people who live there.
An evening
Hanfu Portraiture汉服
Dress in historical Chinese dress with a stylist, then shoot among the architecture it belongs to — city wall, garden, temple.
Half day
TCM Consultation & Tuina中医问诊 · 推拿
A full traditional diagnosis with a licensed practitioner — pulse, tongue, questions — followed by tailored tuina bodywork.
2 hours
Mountain Hot-Spring Day温泉
Private pools in bamboo mountains, herbal soaks, and a slow dinner after — jet lag does not survive this.
Full day
Autonomous Ride Experience自动驾驶
Ride a driverless taxi as a passenger, then meet a team working on the stack that drives it.
Half day
Startup Campus Visit科技园区
Inside a Chinese tech campus: the labs, the cafeterias, the pace — and honest Q&A with people who work there.
Half day
Themes here: Cultural Immersion · Food & Tea · Wellness & Healing · City & Tech
Journeys through Beijing
The Golden Triangle, in Depth
Beijing · Xi'an · Shanghai
China's three great cities, done properly: dawn on the Great Wall, the Terracotta Army with a historian, and a Shanghai most visitors never find — with food stops that locals queue for.
Monthly, April–October
from US$2,890
Beijing Living
Beijing
A long weekend inside the old city: courtyard living, the Forbidden City done right, dawn tai chi, and the wall without the crowds.
Weekly, year-round
from US$890
The Wellness Route
Beijing · Chengdu · Hangzhou
Our signature long journey for the restorative traveler: TCM in Beijing, Sichuan's slow arts in Chengdu, tea and temple practice in Hangzhou — with all the great sights between.
Monthly, April–October
from US$3,480