Learning Beyond Borders

Expeditions through China

After having explored nearly every corner of China ourselves (or at least every province and autonomous region), we are the experts when it comes to China.  Both of us focused our academic careers on East Asia and our trips are not simply tours, but educational explorations as we delve straight into the major issues facing this rising giant. 

We will take you from the vast reaches of the Tibetan plateau to the traditional whitewashed villages of Wuyuan, through the jungles of Yunnan, the forests of Guizhou and the deserts of Xinjiang on the silk road, on the stretches of the Great Wall with not a sole in sight, all the way up to the peak of Mount Changbai overlooking North Korea, and across the straits to Taiwan.  This is China!  

Our expeditions are well of the tourist trail, we will show you China from an insider's poing of view. If you are looking to learn, see and experience what China is really like, just name it and we will not only explain it to you but also take you there and allow you to experience it for yourself.

Media Works Projects

Interested in media production, photography and or media arts?  We are too!  If you are interested in creating a media project in China or are interested in purchasing images, footage or independent media arts projects from us, please e-mail us! 

Our mission is to bring understanding and peace through knowledge.  Media is the best tool for reaching those who are not able to fly across the world to experience difference firsthand. We aspire to create projects that can bring China to the outside world and bring the outside world to China.  

We specialize in China's northeast and the North Korean borderlands, Tibet, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Guizhou and Guangxi, Beijing Shi and Taiwan.

Places and Regions of Interest

Beijing and the North

• Beijing City
• The Great Wall
  
• Qing Dynasty Tombs
• Shanxi's Pingyao township
  
• Yungang Caves
  
• Shaolin Temple, Kaifeng and Luoyang Caves 
  
• Xi'an
  
• Taishan
  
• Qingdao and Yantai
  
• Qufu - Confucius' birthplace
  
• Tianjin
  

The Northeast

• Shenyang City
  
• Dandong and the DPRK border
  
• Ji'an - Goguryeo Ruins
  
• Haerbin
  
• Yanbian - the Korea of China
• The Northern Borderlands: Heihe and Mohe - Chinese Siberia
• Changbai Shan
  

The Northwest 

• Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
  
• Kashgar, Khotan, Urumqi, Yili on the Silk Road
  
• Tashkurgan and Lake Karakol - Tajik China
  

• Silk Road adventures into Kyrgyzstan,  Tajikistan and even northern Pakistan 

• In search of ruins and hidden cities: Qiemo and Ruoqiang
  
• Ningxia
  
• Inner Mongolia
  
• Lanzhou City
  
• Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes
  
• Xiahe Tibetan Autonomous District
  
• Qinghai Amdo Tibet  

Sichuan

• Chengdu City
  
• Panda Breeding Center
  
• Kham Eastern Tibetan Autonomous Districts (more Tibetan than Tibet): Kangding, Litang, Dege
  

• Jiuzhaigou Reserve
  
• Southern Sichuan tribal lands - Lugo Lake
• Chongqing City   
  

Yunnan

• Xishuangbanna: on the edge of southeast Asia's minority tribal area
• Dali
  
• Kunming
  
• Lijiang UNESCO town
  
• Naxi Tribal areas: Shitou Cheng, Baimai and more
• Tiger Leaping Gorge
  
• Zhongdian Tibetan Autonomous Region
  
• Vietnamese border region - lush and green
• Eastern Yunnan - Hmong homelands  
• Overland trips into Vietnam and Laos

Tibet

• Lhasa, Gyangtse and Shigatse
  
• Kham Tibet (East Tibet)
  
• Mount Everest base camp 
  
• Mount Cho Oyu Base Camp
  
• Central Tsang Tibet
• Western Tibet
  

• Mount Kailash Kora Pilgrimage Trek

• Road through Aksai Chin - the Silk Road's back door to Tibet
  
• Namtso Lake
  
• Tingri, Nyalam and into Nepal

The Southeast

• The hilltribes and forests of Guizhou
  
• Guilin and Yangshuo
  
• Northwestern Guangxi tribal areas
  
• Southern Guangxi coas: beaches at Beihai and the Vietnamese border
  
• Hainan Island
  
• Hunan Province: the home of Mao Zedong and some stunning mountains  
• Fujian Province, home of the Hokkien and Hakka: the tulou homes of the west and the booming economic miracles of the east coast.  
  

The Yangzee and Central China 

• Huangshan
  
• The traditional villages of southern Anhui and northern Jiangxi
  
• Jingdezhen pottery
• Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou
  
• The old republican capital at Nanjing
• The Yangzee and the Three Gorges Dam
  
• Wuhan and Hankou
  
• The canal towns around Shanghai (Zhouzhuang)
  
• Chongqing City 

Hong Kong, Guangdong, Macau

• The factory cities of Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Zhuhai
  
• Wonderful Hong Kong island and Kowloon peninsula 
  
• Macau 

Taiwan

• A different China feel in Taipei, home to China's greatest historical relics
  
• Danshui
• Traditional Tainan
• Feel Taiwanese in Kaohsiung
  
• The beaches in Kenting
  
• Aborigine territory in Central Taiwan
  
• Taiwan's wonderful and unique offshore Islands

Borderlands: trips incorporating one of China's many neighbors 

• Russian border trips
  
• Mongolian border trips
• Trips along the North Korean border
  
• Vietnamese border trips
  
• Laotian border trips
  
• Myanmese border trips
  
• Nepali border trips (and even into India if you would like)
  
• Kazakh border trips
  
• Pakistani border trips
  
• Kyrgyz border trips
  
• Tajik border trips (all run currently VIA Kyrgyzstan)