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World Travel Awards-China's Leading Tour Operator
In 2024, China Highlights made its debut at the renowned World Travel Awards and clinched the prestigious title of 'China's Leading Tour Operator'. This accolade stands as a testament to our years of dedicated efforts in crafting tailor-made travel experiences across China. We are honored to be recognized as a leader in the industry and are committed to continuing our tradition of excellence in personalized travel services. Read more »
Forbes - A Culture Hunter's Guide To Beijing, China
China Highlights, an award-winning tour operator with over 25 years of experience, offers tailor-made tours in Beijing (and across China) that bring historical landmarks and cultural experiences to life through engaging storytelling, warm hospitality and unparalleled expertise. Read more »
CNN Travel - Yunnan: 9 things to do in China's wild subtropical wonderland
Trips to the Tiger Leaping Gorge and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain can be booked through guesthouses or the many travel agency booths spread throughout Lijiang Old Town. Most tours are in Chinese.
Alternatively, private minivans seating up to six people, can be flagged down in the road or hired in front Lijiang's main bus station. The China Highlights website offers good tips on hiking the gorge.....Read more »
CNN Travel - 8 of Asia's best ski resorts
Straddling the soaring peaks that border China's inner-Mongolia province and Mongolia itself, Alshan is surrounded by a primitive picturesque forest that would make even Warren Miller gush. With plenty of both alpine and cross-country trails that stretch over 10km of pristine landscape, there's plenty of ground to cover. Ski season runs from November to April... Read more »
Lonely Planet - Land transport in Shanghai - Lonely Planet
Although procuring tickets for nearby destinations and high-speed train tickets is often straightforward, buying rail tickets in Shanghai and China can be very troublesome. You can use ... China Highlights (www.chinahighlights.com)...to buy tickets online. Read more »
BBC Travel - The haunting Sichuan-Tibet Highway
Using a tour agency to plan also helps; the company China Highlights, for example, can provide customised itineraries to Sichuan-bound travellers.) Still, with little tourist infrastructure, extremely high altitudes and a considerable language and cultural barrier, travel here is far from easy. Read more »
Outdoor Australian Geographic - Trekking China's Great Wall
What awaited us was a two-day stint exploring the Jinshanling and Gubeikou sections of the Great Wall with our China Highlights guides. China Highlights offers 1- to 5-day guided tours of the Great Wall. Read more »
USA TODAY - Great Wall of China Vacations
China Highlights offers a six-day hiking excursion on and around the Great Wall; visitors can choose the departure date that works best for them. The package includes an English-speaking tour guide, personal driver, three meals a day for each full day and hotel accommodations.... Read more »
About.com - How to take the train from Guangzhou to Beijing
You can book online with China Highlights. This English language service lets you buy tickets and either pick them up at the station or have them delivered to your hotel. It's also an excellent place to check timetables. Read more »
About.com also recommended China Highlights as a reference website of the Yellow River, Read more»
South China Morning Post - China's relaxed entry rules bring more travel, but would-be tourists wary of remaining barriers
Guilin-based online travel agency China Highlights found in a survey that 68 percent of inbound travellers can "successfully" use a Chinese mobile payment service. Of those that failed, the survey said, half reported rejection by a foreign bank or credit card. Read more »
South China Morning Post - China sees Labour Day tourism surge, paving way for sector's full-spectrum recovery
"Such high growth came due to the minimal presence of foreigntourists in China during the same period last year, as Beijing had juststarted opening up entry visa processing in mid-March,". said Steven Zhao,CEO of the Guilin-based online travel agend China Highlights. Read more »
Viator-Trains in China: A Survival Guide
You're in luck if you have a Chinese friend to book for you, otherwise you'll have to book through an online agency such as China Highlights, which has an easy-to-use English-language train booking website. Using this agency, you can book months ahead, and they will secure your ticket as soon as the booking become available. Read more »
The Huffington Post - The (Great) Wall Less Traveled...Hiking the Huangya Pass in Tianjin's Ji County, China
Originally built during the Northern Qi Dynasty in the mid-sixth century, Huangyanguan is said to stretch 42 kilometers (26 miles), but the portion we hiked (from the Taiping Mountain Stronghold entrance to the Huangya Fortress) was only about seven kilometers...Read more »
Everywhere You Go-Walking Beijing
If you plan on visiting the Forbidden City, you'll need to bring your passport to have your ticket issued. Better yet, skip the long lines and have your ticket pre-purchased online. Along with an expert guide, pre-arranging tickets was part of the In-depth Forbidden City Heritage Discovery Tour from China Highlights which follows a 'no shopping' policy. Forest, my expert guide, was excellent and the tour flew by as it was more akin to storytelling than a conventional tour....Read more »
Time Out Dubai-How to see China the real way
Almost every travel company offers a trip to the karst peaks of Guilin with bamboo rafting down the Li River, but China Highlights' five-day 'Guilin the Tour with More' package is packed with additional highlights. This includes a visit to the houseboat of a local fisherman, lessons in tea-making from Yao minority villagers at the famous Dragon Back rice terraces... Read more »
Beijing's Best Local Tour Companies
The 'Two-Day Great Wall' hiking trip leads you on a trek along the lesser-visited Jiankou, Jinshanling and Simatai sections of the wall and includes accommodation and food at a local farmer's guesthouse, a hotpot lunch and a foot massage. Read more »
In search of green China
We found a tour organization within China, China Highlights in Guilin, which offered a good price for a personalized tour of the places we wanted to go, not those on some set travel route. Our China Highlights tour organizer, Lily Guo, gave us good practical advice as we prepared for our journey. Read more »