Experiences
Every day we run
Each one is a full day with a single host, private or small group. Combine as many as you like — the map works out what connects.
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Chinese Medicine and Qigong in Beijing
Beijing · One day, roughly 08:00 to 18:00
A day inside Chinese medicine — pulse reading, a working clinic, a herbal pharmacy, and a table built on the same principles.
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A Private Day in Beijing's Hutong
Beijing · One day, roughly 08:00 to 20:00
Morning park life, a studio session with a maker, lunch cooked in a courtyard home, and the lanes at the pace people actually live them.
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Private Forbidden City Morning
Beijing · Half day, roughly 07:30 to 14:00
The Forbidden City at opening with a specialist, read as architecture and court routine rather than a list of halls — then lunch and the view from above.
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Chengdu Teahouses by Handmade Bicycle
Chengdu · One day, roughly 09:30 to 18:00
A private day riding a locally made bicycle between riverside tea gardens, back lanes and markets, at the pace Chengdu actually runs at.
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Private Mah-jong and a Countryside Table near Chengdu
Chengdu · One day, roughly 09:00 to 18:00
A private day in the Sichuan countryside — learning mah-jong properly, a farmhouse lunch, and the local ear-cleaning ritual if you dare.
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Yum Cha and the Roast Meat Masters of Guangzhou
Guangzhou · One day, roughly 07:30 to 19:00
A private morning at a proper tea house and an afternoon with the roast meat trade — the char siu window, the tea ritual, and how a city eats before ten.
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Dim Sum Workshop in Guangzhou
Guangzhou · One day, roughly 09:00 to 21:00
A private day in Cantonese kitchens — dawn market, hands-on dim sum with a local chef, Lingnan courtyards, and the Pearl River after dark.
- A tall timber drum tower with stacked eaves against an open sky
Learn Dong Polyphonic Song in Guizhou
Guizhou · One day, roughly 09:00 to 20:00
A private day in a Dong valley — unaccompanied part-singing taught in the drum tower where it belongs, and the timber building that holds it together.
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Miao Embroidery Masterclass in Guizhou
Guizhou · One day, roughly 09:30 to 18:00
A private day of needlework with a Miao embroiderer — the stitches, the symbols they carry, and a piece of your own started properly.
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Miao Silversmith Workshop in Guizhou
Guizhou · One day, roughly 09:30 to 18:00
A private day at a working forge — drawing, hammering and chasing silver with a Miao smith whose family have done it for generations.
- Simple bowls of vegetarian food set on a plain wooden table
A Vegetarian Table with the Monks of Hangzhou
Hangzhou · One day, roughly 08:00 to 16:00
A quiet private day in the hills above Hangzhou — forest paths, a working monastic kitchen, and lunch cooked on eleven hundred years of practice.
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Silk Studio and Dye Workshop in Hangzhou
Hangzhou · One day, roughly 09:30 to 18:00
A private day with silk — from cocoon to loom at the national collection, then dyeing and binding your own cloth in a working studio.
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Modern Shanghai by Architecture
Shanghai · One day, roughly 10:00 to 19:00
A private day reading Shanghai as built form — the Bund's stone banks, a tea room high above the river, and the districts being drawn now.
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Xiaolongbao Cooking Class in Shanghai
Shanghai · One day, roughly 08:00 to 21:00
A private Shanghai day — park life at dawn, a soup dumpling kitchen, the lane houses, and the river between two centuries.
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Handmade Noodle Class in a Xi'an Family Home
Xi'an · One day, roughly 09:00 to 21:00
Market shopping, then hand-pulled noodles in a family kitchen, and the Silk Road food quarter after dark.
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Terracotta Warrior Clay Workshop in Xi'an
Xi'an · One day, roughly 08:30 to 20:00
The excavation with a specialist, then a studio session shaping and firing your own figure with the artisans who supply the site.
- A woven brocade panel in deep reds and indigo on a wooden frame
Tujia Brocade and a Hunan Table in Zhangjiajie
Zhangjiajie · One day, roughly 09:00 to 19:00
A private day with Tujia hosts below the sandstone towers — brocade weaving on a back-strap loom, hillside cooking, and the songs that go with both.