The Great Wall gets all the attention. These are the experiences that actually define a China trip.

Golden Week can make or break a China trip before you've even landed. Here's how to actually time it.

China is roughly the size of the continental US. Most first trips fail simply by trying to cover too much of it.

Macau is Portugal and China layered onto the same few square miles, with casinos bolted on top. Here's how to actually see all three.

Forty-eight hours is enough to cover Macau's two very different faces, if you sequence it right.

Skip the slot machines. These are the experiences that make Macau worth the ferry ride.

Same city, six hours apart — a 400-year-old church ruin at noon, a casino light show at 9pm. Neither one prepared us for the other.

The US isn't one trip, it's five or six completely different ones depending on which coast, or which desert, you pick.

Everyone asks which coast to visit first. The honest answer depends on what kind of American trip you actually want.

Everyone asks which city to visit first. The honest answer depends on what kind of trip you actually want.