Explore China, the Silk Roads and Inner Asia through history, food, religion and everyday life. Expert-guided journeys and field programs shaped by local knowledge and meaningful encounters.
Tailor-made travel and expert guiding for individuals, couples, families and small private groups — in Yunnan, across China and, where relevant, Inner Asia.
Private journeys →A six-day small-group retreat in Dali: tea, movement, food, cultural learning and mountain landscapes.
The retreat →Field seminars and study journeys for schools, universities and study-abroad programs.
Educational travel →Scheduled small-group journeys and local experiences — with confirmed departures marked apart from those still in planning.
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Signature retreat · Dali, Yunnan
Six days of tea, movement, culture and mountain life in southwest China.
A small-group cultural retreat combining guided encounters with Dali's living traditions, contemplative practices, shared meals and time in the landscape.
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Dali, Yunnan · Year-round
Curated walks through the old city, reading streets, gates and the changing urban fabric at close range.
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A slow encounter with temple landscapes and Yunnan tea, bringing observation, conversation and quiet practice together.
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Erhai Valley, Yunnan · Year-round
A field-based look at the relationships between lake, valley, cultivation, markets and everyday food around Erhai.
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Study Journey · 2027
Kitchens, markets and mountain agriculture in southwest China
Yunnan · Southwest China · In planning
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Study Journey · Spring 2026
A traveling seminar between text and place in the making of Mahayana Buddhism
Beijing to Dunhuang · West China · Completed
A traveling seminar between text and place in the making of Mahayana Buddhism.
Our last spring tour between Beijing and Dunhuang ran through some of the most thrilling landmarks of early Buddhist history in west China, on its path to change the fate of east Asia as a whole.
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Study Journey · Spring 2025
Lanzhou to Dunhuang along the Gansu corridor, in the company of caves, deserts and kitchens
Gansu corridor · Northwest China · Completed
In spring 2025 we crossed the Gansu corridor from Lanzhou to Dunhuang, reading the route through Buddhist caves, imperial frontier works, desert water systems and everyday kitchens.
Bingling Temple on the Yellow River, ruined watchtowers, the painted caves of Dunhuang and hand-pulled noodles revealed one corridor carrying sacred art, state logistics and food culture together.
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Study Journey · 2025
Leaf, kettle and market along the old tea routes of Yunnan
Yunnan · Southwest China · Completed
In 2025 we traced Yunnan's old tea roads through leaf, kettle and market: compressed Pu'er, local infusions, rice-noodle kitchens and the trading towns that connected southwest China to Tibet and Southeast Asia.
The journey treated tea not as a souvenir but as an agricultural product, a form of labour and a record of exchange carried by horses, porters and merchants.
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Expedition · Summer 2022
The high road through Badakhshan: fortresses, Wakhani villages and the roof of the world
Pamir · Tajikistan · Badakhshan · Completed
In summer 2022 we followed the Pamir Highway through Gorno-Badakhshan and the Wakhan valley: mountain villages, irrigated orchards and highland meadows beneath some of the highest ranges in Asia.
Fortresses, communal and sacred music, shared meals and conversations about local culinary, healing and religious traditions opened the Pamir as a lived crossroads rather than a remote backdrop.
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