Freelance travel writer, Cathy Winston, takes us on a tour of her five favourite destinations

Our China correspondent on how internet dating is catching on among Beijing’s wired generation

Keep it under your hat, but there’s more to China than the Temple of Heaven and Terracotta Warriors. CD Traveller discovers the island oasis of Hainan

Keep it under your hat, but there’s more to China than the Temple of Heaven and Terracotta Warriors. CD Traveller discovers the island oasis of Hainan

Nguyen Minh Tuan, The Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel & Spa’s marketing & communications manager, tells CD Traveller why he loves Hong Kong, wants to travel to China and Bali and believes that Vietnam is on the up

Xian – the former capital of the Tang Dynasty and the starting point of the Silk Road – should feature high on every traveller’s China itinerary. Here we let you in on five things to see and do in this essential destination – those that get stuck at home in front of their computer, only have themselves to blame…

Our China correspondent on the pros and cons of using a guidebook in Beijing

Matthew Jaskol, co-founder of Trekiz.com – a Beijing based website which allows you to create the China travel experience you really want – on why he is mad about the Middle Kingdom

Heading to the Middle Kingdom for Chinese New Year? Good call. It’s never been difficult to guarantee satisfaction in China – the country is crammed full of no fewer than 37 World Heritage Sites. Here’s five of our favourites…

Our China correspondent on life without Facebook

The menus from outer space

Heading to Dubai for the kingdom of bling’s shopping festival? Hit the malls by all means, but be sure to get yourself to Global Village where you can shop and eat your way around the world…

Our China correspondent on battling Beijing’s big freeze

In need of a detox now that the party season is over, one member of the CD Traveller team tried Chinese cupping – a celebrity detox favoured by the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Victoria Beckham. Read her report here

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the world of travel

Our China correspondent on why Beijing loves a fancy dress party

Our (wo)man in Beijing, on life as a blonde in China’s capital

American Peter Danford owns and operates The China Guide – a Beijing based travel company specialising in custom private tours around China. The father of three who has travelled throughout Asia for over 20 years, spoke to CD Traveller about mysterious Myanmar, Mooloolaba and, of course, the Middle Kingdom

From bars to blockbuster sights, CD Traveller helps you plan your trip to the world’s hottest destination

From bars to blockbuster sights, CD Traveller helps you plan your trip to the world’s hottest destination’

It’s not often you come across people who say that sticking a candle in their ear makes them feel good. However an ancient Chinese way of removing ear wax, is proving surprisingly popular today. CD Traveller gave it a go

Michel L Goget, general manager of the Ritz-Carlton, Sanya – the first Ritz-Carlton resort in China – helmed Ritz-Carlton hotels in Atlanta, Michigan and Virginia, before heading to Hainan. Here, the Washington resident whose 20 years of hospitality experience spans seven countries, talks to CD Traveller about Australia, Alain DuCasse and why Sanya – China’s only tropical beachfront city – is fast becoming the ‘Miami of Asia’.

Read CD Traveller’s feature on the Tianjin Wine and Food Festival and decided to travel to Tianjin? Congratulations! Only now that you have booked your flight, you’re wondering exactly where to go and what to do. Fret not as CD Traveller had done the legwork for you. Follow our itineraries – which have been tailored according to taste and time – and you can suss out the best of the city in no time.

Following in the footsteps of the South Beach Wine and Food Festival ( a four day destination event designed to raise money for Florida International University’s School of Hospitality and Tourism) comes the 2010 China Wine & Food Festival. Susan Gladstone, director of the China Wine & Food Festival Tianjin, dishes the dirt on the inaugural event

CD Traveller tells you what’s hot in the travel world

CD Traveller tells you what’s hot in the travel world

Vanessa Collingridge has travelled the world from the frozen Antarctic to Tahiti. Here, the renowned geographer, explorer, author and presenter shares her experiences with CD Traveller and reveals why Scotland will always hold a special place in her heart

China has visitor appeal on so many different levels. The culture and lifestyle is different, but above all the heritage is a draw. We might find an Anglo-Saxon hoard in Staffordshire with over a 1,000 jigsaw pieces of our history but imagine finding 20,000?
In the mountains of Zhongwei, the Chinese English language paper, Global Times, has reported that they have found 20,000 rock paintings in a six month survey of the area. The oldest ones date back to the stone age. That they found so many is not the staggering feature of the story since they expected to find about 10,000. That 80% of all China’s rock paintings have been damaged by humans or erosion is not really the story although this means that China could have one hundred thousand rock paintings where we get elated if we find a couple. This comes on top of finding yet more terracotta warriors a month or so ago. The story is that there is so much in China still to be found and seen.