City guide
A highland prefecture of Tibetan and Qiang communities, alpine valleys, grasslands and mountain scenery.
Plan with confidence
A guide to Duanwu as it is actually kept: dragon-boat races in Hangzhou and Guangzhou, regional zongzi from Quanzhou to Xi'an, and the women-led Qiang festival in Aba, Sichuan.
At 2,680 metres in Li County, Aba Prefecture, Touch Cloud Resort trades livestock for weather. What to expect from the mountain road, the rooms, the food and the cloud-watching, plus when to go and what to pack.
A two-day winter plan from Chengdu: forest skiing and snow play in Bipenggou, the high-altitude snow park at Zhegushan, hot-spring lodging in Gurgou and yak hotpot in Lixian.