China · Hunan
Zhangjiajie, where your face is the ticket
Three days in the Avatar mountains, where the park scans your face instead of your ticket, lunch cooks itself on a bench, and the monkeys take a close interest in whatever is in your bag.
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Furong and Fenghuang, where six can mean sixty
Two ancient towns in the rain: one built around a waterfall in flood, one where people actually live, with frogs for dinner, scorpions on sticks and a llama keeping a tea shop company.
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China · Chongqing
Chongqing, where “not spicy” is only a suggestion
Our first stop in China: a city stacked on top of itself, where the streets are empty at six and unwalkable at nine, and where a stranger buys your breakfast for no reason at all.
With the fog it looked like a fairy-tale land, the mountains appearing and disappearing as if we were up in the sky.
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