An itinerary is a promise about time. Keep it.
Every route here includes the boring bits that make a trip work: realistic train times, which days are travel days, what to book ahead, and where to stop adding cities.
China itineraries
7 days in China for the first time: Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai
A realistic one-week first trip with high-speed rail, the Great Wall, the Terracotta Army and enough time to actually eat.
The 240-hour transit trip: Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou
How to use China's 10-day transit waiver for a Yangtze Delta trip — legally, realistically, and without crossing outside the permitted area.
10 days in China: Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu and Shanghai
The classic 10-day route with pandas, hotpot and high-speed rail — paced so you are not changing hotels every night.
14 days in China: the grand tour without the death march
Two weeks across Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Guilin and Shanghai, with realistic transit days and room to breathe.
None of these fit?
Send the dates and constraints. We build the route around the trip you can actually take.
Travel days are not sightseeing days.
A train that arrives at 3pm leaves you a tired afternoon, not a full day. We count transfer time, station time and the walk to the hotel. If a route needs five cities in ten days, it is a tour, not a trip.
Two or three bases per week
More than that and the trip becomes a luggage-handling exercise.
Book the friction first
Trains, timed attractions and the first two nights. Everything else can stay flexible.
Leave one buffer day
Weather, trains and jet lag all happen. A buffer is cheaper than a rebooking.