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A China adventure that moves with you.

Twenty-nine ready-made journeys across Sichuan, Yunnan and the Silk Road — on fixed 2027 departures, or shaped around your own pace, interests, and appetite for the outdoors.

Start with the kind of experience that pulls you out there.

Selected route: Trekking & altitude

Build your route See four ways in
The four peaks of Mount Siguniang above larch forest and meadow
CURRENT ROUTE Trekking & altitude
ROUTE 01

A purposeful route through big landscapes, built with room to breathe.

Adventure is personal.
Planning should be too.

China is too vast for a one-size-fits-all itinerary. Start from a tour package that speaks to you, then make it your own with the right route, rhythm, and support.

01Start from your energy
02Choose a landscape
03Shape the details together
29ready-made journeys
2027fixed departures online
2–8trekkers per group
46field notes & guides

Pick a discipline.
Find your momentum.

Four of the nine ways we travel — each hub opens into routes, seasons and honest field notes, and every route works as a package or a custom brief.

High-country trekking terrain near Mount Siguniang
01 / TrekkingHigh passes & thin airExplore trekking routes →
 A giant panda in forest habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve
02 / WildlifePandas, cranes & foxesExplore wildlife routes →
 Climbers on frozen waterfalls in Shuangqiao Valley in winter
03 / Ice climbingFrozen waterfalls, Jan–FebExplore ice climbing →
 Steaming bowls on a street-food stall
04 / FoodMarkets, kitchens & tablesExplore food journeys →

Journeys ready
to walk this year.

Four of the twenty-nine, chosen for the season ahead. Each one is written up day by day, with fixed departure dates and honest prices — and every one works as a private route too.

Trekkers with poles climbing a snow-filled couloir between dark rock walls on summit day
4 days · join-in, Apr–Nov 2027 The Dafeng summit trek A genuine 5,025-metre summit in four days — horses under the camp, a pre-dawn climb, CNY 6,800.
Trekkers on a grassy trail passing a white stupa, with the glacier valley and snow peaks of Minya Konka behind
5 days · join-in, May–Nov 2027 The Minya Konka lodge trek Gongga Shan without a tent: monastery bunks under the summit and a lodge by the holy lake, CNY 6,000.
An instructor coaching a climber on a frozen waterfall in Shuangqiao Valley
4 days · join-in, Jan–Feb The beginner ice climb Zero experience needed: gear school, three top-rope days on frozen waterfalls, lodge nights at 3,200 m — CNY 4,500.
Autumn colours around the holy lakes of Daocheng Yading
8 days · private, Jun–Nov The Yading photo tour Eight days from a village inside the sanctuary — Pearl, Milk and Five-Colour lakes at photography hours.

All 29 journeys, from lodge weeks to self-supported crossings →

The snow peak of Xiannairi rising above the forested valley of Daocheng Yading From idea to departure

Less searching.
More moving.

  1. 01

    Share your starting point

    Tell us the landscape, activity, or travel mood you’re looking for.

  2. 02

    Choose a route

    Begin with a package or work from a blank page — either way, the route is yours.

  3. 03

    Set out prepared

    We shape the moving parts into one coherent journey, from the first outline onward.

All six stages, and what we ask at each one →

Read before
you go.

Forty-six field notes, guides and route comparisons — altitude, seasons, sleep, training and the honest difficulty of every route we run.

Tents pitched on the grassy base-camp meadow below the rock towers of Mount Siguniang Field guide · 6 min Your first 5,000-metre peak: what Dafeng asks Why the 5,025-metre sister is the standard first summit — and what the four days actually cost your legs. Trekkers by the holy lake Langgatso beneath the snow peaks of Minya Konka Field guide · 6 min Gongga without a tent Hotel, monastery bunks, lodge: the no-camp way into the Minya Konka range, with the two great days still in. A trekking trail climbing through alpine terrain in the Minya Konka range Field guide · 7 min How hard is hard? All 19 routes, graded Days, highest point, tent nights and what you carry — one honest table, with notes on what the numbers do not say.

All field notes →

Why adventure
with us?

  • Written by the people who run itEvery route page, grade and price on this site comes from our own scouting trips and departures — no copied brochures, no “from” pricing.
  • Small groups by designJoin-in departures cap at eight trekkers; private routes run from two. Porters, horses and cooks stay behind the scenes where they belong.
  • Packages that flexStart from a fixed 2027 departure, then reshape the dates, days and comfort level into the private route you actually want.

How it works

  1. 01
    You send the brief

    Landscape, activity, dates, appetite — a few lines are enough to start.

  2. 02
    A route outline

    A day-by-day draft comes back within one business day, then we refine dates, pace and nights together.

  3. 03
    The cost, then the ground

    One honest price once the shape settles — permits, pack lists and acclimatisation handled before you fly.

All six stages in detail Open a route brief

Tell us where
you want to go.

Choose a starting point here, then continue to the full enquiry form when you are ready.