[ About ]Who you're dealing with
I've been driving people to Melbourne airport for ten years — at least twenty runs a week, in a Mercedes people-mover. There's a fair chance you've already been in one of my cars. I've also been accredited to drive at the Australian Grand Prix, which means I've been through the background checks that come with it.
I came to Australia in 2001. Half my life has been in China, half here, and I go back once a year.
This started in the car. People would ask what China's actually like, and I kept getting the same answer: no idea. Never been, never really seen it. Western media doesn't show much of it, and what it does show tends to be the same three subjects. So people come to the question with nothing to go on.
That's the real barrier — not visas, not language. Most Australians don't know what's worth seeing in China, and almost nobody knows how far ahead it has got in ordinary daily life.
That's the China I want to show you. You'll walk the Great Wall and stand in front of the Terracotta Army, and you should — they're worth the trip on their own. But you'll also cross the country at 350 kilometres an hour on a train that leaves on the minute, ride a maglev out to the airport, and pay for a bowl of noodles by holding up your phone. Every year I go back, something else has changed. It is not the country most people picture, and that surprise is half of what makes the trip.
I'm not a tour guide. I drive cars. So I've partnered with a team in China who have spent twenty years looking after foreign visitors — they know what Western travellers actually want, which is not the same thing as what a Chinese domestic tour delivers.
When something goes wrong at 2am in Xi'an, you're not calling a hotline in another country. You're calling me.
— Max Hu
No visa required
Australian passport holders can enter China without a visa for stays of up to 30 days. Nothing to apply for, nothing to pay, no consulate appointment.
Current to 31 December 2026. If it changes before you travel, we'll tell you and handle the visa for you.
No shopping stops. Ever.
No jade factory, no silk workshop, no tea ceremony sales room. This is written into our contract with our team in China.
Most group tours include these — it's how the price gets kept down. We'd rather charge you properly and give you the afternoon back.
Who looks after you in China
Our ground team has been running trips for foreign visitors for twenty years. Not domestic Chinese tours — foreign visitors, which is a different job with different expectations.
Every city has its own English-speaking guide, chosen for being good with people rather than for being able to recite dynasties. Your driver stays with you between cities. There's a 24-hour contact in China, and there's me in Melbourne.
Between us, there isn't much that can happen on one of these trips that we haven't already dealt with.
Ready when you are.
Tell us your dates and how many of you there are, and we'll come back with a price and a plan. Quotes are free and there's no obligation to book.