<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nLook, the Great Wall deserves the hype. But China\u2019s Chinese landscapes go way beyond one stone ridge, and you didn\u2019t sit on a plane for 12 hours just to see a postcard. You can stand in a cave where artists painted sixteen centuries ago. Walk around a lake that looks like a melted crayon box. Drive through high desert that feels borrowed from Mars. Sleep in a mud fortress that once held 800 relatives. Watch fog eat karst peaks that have been painted for a thousand years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pick two spots. Stay an extra night. Let the place slow you down. You\u2019ll fly home with a different picture of the country in your head\u2014and a stubborn list of spots you still need to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When someone says \u201cChina,\u201d the Great Wall is the instant mental image for most Westerners. Makes sense. But only seeing the Wall is like flying to the US, snapping a …","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3643,159,157,60,3753,306,1713,1782,214,4016],"class_list":["post-27905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3643","tag-beautiful-places","tag-beautiful-places-in-china","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-hiredchina","tag-in-china","tag-transport","tag-travel","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27917,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27905\/revisions\/27917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}