New Podcast: Made in China
In this month’s podcast Charles and I compare notes from our recent trips to China, and talk the joys of travel there, especially the country’s superb mammalwatching op
Trip Report – Qinghai Tibetan Mammals Tour – Royle Safaris – July-August 2025
Royle Safaris was once again back in China during the summer of 2025 for our now annual mammalwatching group tour to the Tibetan Plateau. With another group of intrepid mammalwatch
Quick Trip to Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang Province, China
I spent the final few days of my month in China in the southeast, around Hangzhou. The mammalwatching wasn’t as successful here as we’d hoped but after 4 weeks in China
A Day in Guangxi (China), 2026
The fourth leg of my China tour had me flying to Nanning to meet another leading Chinese mammalwatching, Zhou Fangyi. Zhou, an elephant researcher working in Yunnan, has been follo
Qinghai’s Gouli Valley, Qilian Mountains and Xining (China), 2026
For the third leg of my China month I returned to Qinghai and the Tibetan Plateau. I was here in 2015 for two weeks and saw for myself that this is one of the world’s great wildl
Yunnan, April 2026
Ever since I read Sichao Ma’s 2023 report about Yunnan’s primates I had wanted to visit. I asked around, but I couldn’t figure out how to plan a trip. Some sites were rum
A Weekend in Tangjiahe Nature Reserve, Sichuan
Hello from China, where I’m one week into a 30-day, visa-free, trip to China. I’m traveling through Yunnan at the moment for 10 days, followed by a week around Xining i
Winter in Labahe and Gouli
The travel bug (or field mouse?) bites differently, sometimes with gentle persuasion and other times with hard obsession. After my trip last year in February with AbsolutePanda cov
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Trip Report – Sichuan Mammals Tour – Royle Safaris – March 2025 (Group 2)
As you will have seen on a previous post Royle Safaris ran several trips in Sichuan looking for mammals in spring 2025, three were private tours and we don’t have trip report