A restored courtyard mansion inside the walls, five courtyards deep, run with the standard of a city design hotel. The way to experience Pingyao after the day trippers leave the lanes.
April to June, September to October · Relaxed · Easy
The China that survived: a complete walled town where the first banks ran the empire, 51,000 Buddhas carved into a cliff in the fifth century, and the monastery pinned to a cliff face. Five days of the deepest history in the country, all by high-speed rail.