Where are all the people?” a friend asks upon seeing my photos from a recent trip to China, where I hiked on the Great Wall (and I have a T-shirt to prove it, so there). Truth is, I had wondered that ...

But for our money, nowhere can hold a candle to the “Little Golden Mountain” – or Jinshanling. Yes, it is admittedly a longer drive, around two and a half hours each way, over the border ...