9 places to live differently

A Nasi valley village in the shadow of snow peaks

China's last frontier town on the Pamir Plateau

Gobi emerald lakes and starlit yardang wilderness in Qinghai

Sichuan's "Corridor of Light and Shadow" — a photographer's paradise on the Tea Horse Road

Home of the heavenly horses and vast seas of rapeseed bloom

Where the salt lake becomes a mirror to the sky and stars

A Tibetan monastery town straddling two provinces — China's "Little Switzerland"

Where an oasis town meets the desert below the Flaming Mountains.

A Tibetan trail-head village beneath the sacred peaks of Meili Snow Mountain.