The holiday treatment

Flush with cash and conscious of their wellbeing, Chinese are turning their vacations into trips of healing

For Huang and his wife, it was to be either a holiday like no other, one that would change the course of their lives, or one for which they would have little to show as they returned home but photos and a few souvenirs.

"One of my friends suggested we give it a go, and we figured that if things didn't work out, we would just treat it as a vacation," says Huang, who did not want his surname used for this article.