Private small-group journeys for 2–6 travelers — from Chongqing's cyberpunk skyline to the camel bells of the ancient Silk Road. No subcontracted guides. No tourist-trap shops. Just 100% locally hosted wonder.
Most "China tour" websites are overseas middlemen who pass your booking to an unknown local operator. We are the local operator — based in Chongqing, with our own bilingual guides, drivers, and 24/7 concierge.
Never subcontracted. Handpicked culture keepers and licensed drivers on our own payroll.
Strictly zero commission stops or tourist factory traps. 100% of your time is sacred.
Real planners in Chongqing responding in minutes — no offshore ticket-broker delays.
Every route is fully private, fully customizable, and hosted end-to-end by our own team. Prices below are per person based on a 4-guest private departure.
7 Days · 6 NightsFrom 3,000-year-old bronze mysteries to an 8D cyberpunk metropolis: hotpot inside a WWII air-raid shelter, the Dazu cliff carvings, dawn with giant pandas, and the alien masks of Sanxingdui.
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8 Days · 7 NightsFollow the caravans across Yunnan: misty morning markets in Shaxi, Naxi hieroglyph workshops, the roar of Tiger Leaping Gorge, and butter tea by the fireside of a Tibetan family home.
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9 Days · 8 NightsThe classic caravan road in comfort: Mogao Grottoes with an official researcher, hand-painting frescoes with mineral pigments, Rainbow Mountains at golden hour, and a starlit banquet in the dunes. An 11-day Qinghai-Gansu grand loop is also available.
View Full ItineraryEvery Tea & Silk journey includes dedicated expedition photography by our licensed bicultural guides. Real moments, golden-hour light, and cinematic aerials of lands that photos rarely do justice to.
Wind-sculpted clay towers rising from turquoise desert waters. Captured at dawn with our onboard 4K drone.
Sunset illuminating the 24-million-year-old sandstone folds of the Danxia landform in unedited mineral hues.
Traveler portrait beside ancient rammed-earth watchtowers. Natural light, 50mm prime lens, zero staged cliches.
Wild meadows and glacial streams beneath 5,000-meter peaks — where horses were once bred for Han emperors.
Every Tea & Silk departure is a private journey of 2–6 guests with your own MPV, driver and guide — the vehicle never fills with strangers, and the itinerary never locks. Three things are always yours to decide:
Mix and match any of our three roads, or start from a blank map. Add Chengdu to a Silk Road trip, end a Yunnan journey in Chongqing — if it can be driven, we'll design it.
Seven days too long? Nine too short? Compress a route into a 5-day highlight reel, or stretch it with rest days, photography mornings and slow afternoons. The calendar bends to you.
A couple's honeymoon, three generations in one MPV, a solo traveler who wants depth over company. Groups stay at 2–6 so the guide works for you — never the other way round.
Have something specific in mind? Photography-focused, food-obsessed, senior-friendly, kid-proof — tell us what "perfect" looks like and we'll build the itinerary around it within 24 hours.
Start a Custom JourneyOur journeys pass through the workshops where China's oldest crafts are still alive — and the pieces you fall in love with can travel home with you, or ship worldwide to your door.
Tea Horse RoadPressed from centuries-old tea trees along the old caravan passes. Taste it with heritage growers at the source, or order custom-pressed harvest cakes.
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Silk Road MasterclassHand-painted on local clay panels using ground lapis lazuli and malachite pigments by resident academy masters. Flight-safe cedar wood packaging included.
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Silk Road Heritage100% mulberry silk with hand-rolled hems, inspired by Tang dynasty cave ceiling motifs. Sourced directly from independent silk studios.
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Yunnan Intangible HeritageAncient paper crafted from wild mountain bark and wild mountain petals. Inscribed with UNESCO-recognized Dongba pictographic blessings by native culture keepers.
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Bashu & KilnsGaiwans and tasting cups from heritage wood kilns — the exact ware we brew with on our journeys, chosen for tactile warmth and daily durability.
Ask about this archive →China now offers unilateral visa-free entry to 50 countries and 240-hour visa-free transit to 57. Tell us your passport and travel dates — we'll confirm your eligibility within hours, free of charge.
No instant checkout, no pressure. High-touch journeys deserve a real conversation.
Message us on WhatsApp or email — group size, dates, interests. We reply within 15 minutes during working hours.
Within 24 hours you receive a day-by-day proposal with transparent, all-inclusive pricing. Revise freely.
Secure payment via PayPal or bank transfer. Balance due 30 days before departure. Clear refund policy.
Your guide and driver meet you at arrivals. From that moment, you don't need to worry about a single thing.
For over a thousand years, Chinese tea and silk traveled west along mountain trails and desert caravan routes — and the world's travelers came back along them. We named ourselves after those two roads, because that exchange is still what we do: welcoming the world into the real China.
Our team is headquartered in Chongqing — China's most cinematic city — and our journeys run through the lands we know best: the Tea Horse Road of Yunnan, the Silk Road of the far west, and our own backyard of Sichuan and Chongqing.
We keep groups small, guides in-house, and shopping stops at zero. Always.
Send us your dates and we'll craft a journey around them — no obligation, no pressure, no shopping stops. Ever.
