Gansu · Qinghai · Hainan · Silk Road
The Silk Road, without the tour bus.
Private journeys across China’s northwest with local English-speaking guides, hand-picked boutique hotels and no shopping stops. Fixed departures you can book today, or a route designed around you.
See it before you go
See the plateau before you book
Ask us for recent clips of any route — filmed by our own guides and drivers, not stock footage.
Seven ways to travel
Choose a region, we handle everything else
Each region is a self-contained journey: vehicles, guides, hotels, tickets and a 24/7 line to a human. Pick a fixed departure or use it as the skeleton of a custom route.
Gansu Tours
Bingling grottoes, Labrang Monastery, Zhangye’s rainbow mountains and the desert gates of the Great Wall.
ExploreQinghai Tours
Qinghai Lake, the mirror of Chaka, Tibetan monasteries and the empty Qaidam Basin.
ExploreGansu-Qinghai Grand Loop
Seven to ten days linking Xining, Qinghai Lake, Dunhuang, Jiayuguan and Zhangye in one unbroken line.
ExploreGannan & Longnan
Tibetan Labrang, the stone-box village of Zhagana, and Longnan’s green tea mountains.
ExploreHexi Corridor
Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiayuguan and Dunhuang — a thousand kilometres of frontier history.
ExploreHainan Tours
Yalong Bay resorts, rainforest trails and Li minority villages, best from November to April.
Explore4WD Overland Expeditions
Unpaved tracks, high passes, wild camping and nomad homestays — for travellers who want the road itself.
ExploreTruly private
Your own vehicle and guide. No shared buses, no strangers, no fixed photo stops.
Local, not scripted
Guides born in Lanzhou, Xining and Xiahe. They take you to their own noodle shop, not a souvenir factory.
Fixed, fair pricing
Prices published per person. Card or PayPal. No hidden “optional” extras on the road.
Answer within 12h
WhatsApp us any time. A real person — not a ticket queue — replies, in English.
Ready to book
Fixed departures
For the road itself
4WD overland into Gannan
Unpaved passes above 3,800 m, river crossings, wild camping with a camp chef, nights in nomad tents and Tibetan village guesthouses. Land Cruiser or Prado, maximum eight travellers per convoy.
Travellers
What people say after the plateau
“Ten days and not one wasted hour. Our guide Tenzin knew every monastery caretaker by name.”
Sarah & Michael · Australia · Grand Loop
“The 4WD expedition was the real thing — no tarmac, no other tourists, dinner cooked over a stove at 4,000 m.”
Lukas · Germany · Gannan Overland
“They answered on WhatsApp at 2am my time, changed our hotel and never once pushed an upgrade.”
Élodie · France · Qinghai
Not sure which route fits?
Tell us your dates, group size and how you like to travel. You will get a day-by-day draft within minutes — refined by a human within 12 hours.