5 offbeat China trips for 'Golden Week'

by Jade Bremner

October is the month when it seems all 1 billion Chinese leave home to take advantage of the rare week-long Golden Week holiday celebrating National Day (October 1).

But it doesn’t mean vacationers can’t escape colored baseball-capped tour groups and screeching guides waving annoying flags.

Here are five offbeat routes that take in the country’s exotic life, not its tourists.

With nothing but bamboos surrounding.

It would be easy to get lost and reinvent yourself as a Chinese warrior in Moganshan’s dense bamboo forest.