Journeys · Every one rebuilt around your dates
Tailor-made China tours.
Thirteen ways in — all private.
Nobody buys China as a list of cities — you come for a passion: a bear, a railway, a dynasty, a cuisine. These are our thirteen themed journeys. Every one is private, every one is rebuilt around your dates, pace and party, and every one is run by licensed local partners with our own guides on the ground — matched to your language (English or German as standard, French or Spanish on request, confirmed before booking), with a luxury new-energy Denza D9 or Zeekr 9X as your ride, not a stock limousine.
All thirteen journeys, honestly priced
Our signature: 13 days along the Silk Road, by private car and private guide — €4,600 per person, two travelling. Not the cheapest way to see China. The way that never wastes a day. Prefer paper first: the complete 10-day sample itinerary.
First time in China — start here
Icons, food and pandas — the three gentlest ways in, each private and paced for a first look at the country.
Classic China
Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai done properly: Wall at dawn, hutong with a resident, the Terracotta Army before the buses. The route that first introduced China to Europe, minus every trap.
View the itinerary → 8 days · €3,200 pp, two (~€400/day) · €2,900 at fourChengdu & Sichuan
The land of plenty at table-pace: pandas before the crowds, two-millennia-old waterworks, and the most delicious province in China taken slow.
View the itinerary → 6 days · €2,400 pp, two (~€400/day)The Panda Country
Chengdu and the bamboo hills: research bases at opening time, Dujiangyan's 2,270-year-old river surgery, teahouses. The gentlest way into China.
View the journey →Come for a passion
Kitchens, lanes and ordinary lives, cameras, railways, mountain trails, dynasties — the journeys for travellers who already know what they love.
China Through Its Kitchens
Beijing duck to Cantonese dawn tea by way of Xi'an noodles and Chengdu's fly restaurants — a pilgrimage measured in meals.
View the journey → 6 days · €2,600 pp, two (~€400/day) · €2,400 at fourLive Like a Local in Beijing
Hutong breakfasts, a wet market with a guide who cooks, Song-dynasty whisked tea, cloisonné and Ru porcelain workshops — Beijing at residents' speed, monuments included.
View the journey → 10 days · €3,900 pp, two (~€390/day)The Photographer's China
Karst rivers at first light, rice terraces in mirror season, the Avatar peaks above the cloud sea — days timed around golden hours, not gift shops.
View the journey →China by Bullet Train
Beijing to Shanghai at 350 km/h, with Xi'an and Chengdu between: the country-sized argument for rail revival, shown from the window seat.
View the journey → 10 days · €3,700 pp, two (~€370/day)The Tea Horse Road
Yunnan from Dali to Shangri-La along the old mule trails: Bai tie-dye, a market street the Swiss saved, and altitude climbed the sensible way. Involves 3,000m+ days — we pace it, but it's real altitude.
View the journey → 9 days · €3,600 pp, two (~€400/day)The Last Dynasty
The Qing trail nobody else sells: Shenyang's tent-shaped palace, Chengde's summer court, the Eastern Qing Tombs and Beijing — one dynasty, end to end.
View the journey →The long hauls and the specialist lines
Thirteen days west, a working canal, factory floors and a boardroom-grade tech programme — journeys that ask more of your calendar, and give it back.
The Silk Road
Xi'an to Kashgar through the Hexi Corridor: Mogao's painted caves, singing dunes, earth cities a thousand years dead. Our longest story — not for a first trip: start with Classic or Chengdu.
View the journey → 8 days · €3,100 pp, two (~€390/day)The Grand Canal
Beijing to Hangzhou along 1,700 years of water — the only ancient canal still carrying freight, and the garden cities it fed.
View the journey → 8 days · €3,500 pp, two (~€400/day) · €3,200 at fourMade in Beijing
Inside China's smart-manufacturing capital: a working car plant, robot labs, autonomous driving, the 350 km/h bullet train — with the Forbidden City and the Wall kept in, because the contrast is the point.
View the journey →Tech & Business China
For the professionally curious: Shenzhen hardware, live commerce, factory floors and the meetings that make a sourcing trip or an exec's education. Leisure travellers: this one isn't for you.
View the itinerary → Sample plan in fullClassic China, worked out in full
Every day of our flagship route planned to the hour, with the real numbers — see exactly how we build a trip.
Read the worked example →None of these is exactly you?
That's the point of tailor-made. Tell us the theme and we'll design the route — same honesty, same published-cost logic.
Design ours →