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A custom itinerary, delivered in 5 working days
Hotel, train, and route recommendations — you handle the bookings
Pre-trip support via WhatsApp
A clear travel brief before departure
Considered journeys through China.
Private trips. Built from scratch.
Trips built around you, not a group | Guides who call it home | We do China. Nothing else
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First-time China First-time China Your first China: the wall on the mountains, the army under the earth, the lights on the river.
Natural China Natural China The mountains you saw in films are real. Come stand under them.
Rivers and time Rivers and time Three nights drifting the Yangtze, four nights in one city. China at the speed of water.
Family pace Family pace Pandas for the kids, cable cars for the grandparents, one pace for everyone.
Sacred paths Sacred paths High plateaus, desert oases, temples a thousand years deep. The China that takes longer to tell.
Two-person China Two-person China A river at sunrise, a teahouse at noon, a skyline at night. And nobody else's schedule.
No-visa transit No-visa transit A US passport, no visa, up to ten days. See China on the way to somewhere else.
Modern China Modern China Driverless taxis, drone swarms, trains at 350 km/h. The China already living in next year.
Short stays Short stays Three days is enough. One city, seen properly, is a whole trip.
Learning routes Learning routes Travel that takes notes. Museums, workshops and field days that turn a trip into a course.
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Where the Lines Stop
What Each City Is For
The Middle Goes Up
Upstream to the Sea
Two Rivers, Two Thousand Years
China, East to South
Newest First
The Wall Comes Last
China, Newest First
Two Capitals, Then Chengdu
Four Lines, One Country
China Without Beijing
The Empire, Read Backward
One Country, Two Clocks
Above the Pillars, Then Below
Downstream, Then Up
China at Two Altitudes
China, End to End
Three Speeds
China Below Zero
The Wall, Then the Water
Two Kinds of Water
River First, Then Stone
Downstream from the Future
The Fourth Night
What the Stone Becomes
Axis to Kitchen Table
Monuments, Then Neighbors
The Days Nobody Organized
One Pace, Three Generations
The Lift Inside the Cliff
Six Cities, Nobody Waiting
All the Way West
The Long Way Up
Thin Air, Then Sea Level
China, by Hand
Halls of Emperors and Gods
The Water Sets the Clock
Three Cities, Three Waters
Sichuan, Face to Face
Slow Water, Fast City
Lines Drawn on the Ground
One Country, Three Clocks
The Wall and the Water
Ten Days Without a Visa
China, Present Tense
Two Clocks, One Map
Made Here
Two Clocks, One Bay
After the Last Booth
Shanghai, After the Expo
Shenzhen, After the Fair
Beijing, After the Conference
Underground and After Dark
Beijing, on One Line
Xi'an, Layer by Layer
Shanghai, by Water
What a Country Keeps
How We Know
Our Senior Travel Designers
"Designed over 300 private itineraries across China. Still does every first draft himself."
"Studied tourism, then spent years travelling across China to understand how a journey actually feels on the ground."
"Has spent years turning complex China trips into journeys that feel easy, considered, and personal."
"Ten years in the industry. Knows China well enough to know what not to put in an itinerary."
"Based in Yunnan for seven years. Has guided hundreds of travellers through landscapes most people only know from photographs."
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Step 03
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We refine it together until it feels right.
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Travel
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Full confirmation documents and travel wallet before departure
Pre-trip support via WhatsApp
On-trip WhatsApp support if anything comes up
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Best for: you want the trip fully handled, with planning, bookings, and support kept in one place.
A custom itinerary, refined until it's right
Founder-led planning via WhatsApp or email
All hotels, trains, and transfers booked for you
Full booking confirmations before departure
Pre-trip support via WhatsApp
Private guides in each destination, arranged and briefed by us
On-trip WhatsApp support throughout the journey
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An international brand of Tuniu.
LyrikTrip is the international brand of Tuniu (NASDAQ: TOUR), a travel group with two decades on the ground in China. Tuniu runs the supply chain and fulfilment quality; LyrikTrip designs the journey and looks after you before, during and after.
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What people write back.
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Margaret
Boston, USA
★★★★★
"Jason, your email about the visa got me through the consulate without rebooking once. The Suzhou gardens were exactly the speed you described. Worth the trip cost alone."
Sep 2025 A Jiangnan garden walk
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Daniel
London, UK
★★★★★
"The calligrapher's studio in Xi'an was the moment my husband stopped checking his phone. We got back six hours later. He's still talking about it three months on."
Oct 2025 Beijing–Xi'an, reimagined
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Sophia
Berlin, DE
★★★★★
"You said 'Lijiang at 6am' and I thought you were being poetic. You weren't. Set an alarm. The light, the silence, the old town empty — I have never seen anything like it."
Aug 2025 Yunnan, slowly
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James
Toronto, CA
★★★★★
"I asked five questions before booking. You answered all five within 24 hours, with paragraphs, not templates. That's why I paid. The trip itself just confirmed it."
Nov 2025 The Sichuan edge
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