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The Rough Guide to Beijing 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) |  | Author: Simon Lewis
Publisher: Rough Guides
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1843539071
Dewey Decimal Number: 915.1156046
EAN: 9781843539070
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Product Description
This guide to Beijing brings the city’s highlights to life from the latest hip nightspots and fashionable eateries to the ancient splendours of the Forbidden City. Easier to use and more to the point than its main rivals, there are accounts of all the city''s attractions and reliable, practical information on how to get around, where to stay and where to find the best restaurants and bars. The guide also includes detailed accounts of excursions outside the city to historic towns and hikes along the Great Wall. Each district is covered by a thoroughly researched and fully indexed map
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 Must-Have if you go to Beijing October 25, 2004
Janice
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
This book was great--I don't know how we would have managed without it--it gives great, accurate information about places to go (not the nightclubs though), had great maps. We went to some of the most amazing restaurants that we would never have been able to find if not for the really detailed directions in the book (for example, this famous, but out-of-the-way roast duck restaurant hidden in the depths of the hutongs at Qianmen.) The maps were very useful, especially to show taxi drivers where you want to go, though you have to read the pinyin names to them since they can't read english. But definitely, you can't go wrong in Beijing with this book.
Reliable, Up-to-Date, Far Better than Lonely Planet July 4, 2004
Steve Wilton (Vancouver, BC Canada)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
If you plan to go to Beijing and you don't speak Mandarin,
you *need* a good guide book. I consistently found this
to be accurate, and it gave good advice. I met other travelers
using the Lonely Planet, and they didn't find it nearly as
useful.
Great maps April 3, 2006
My Humble Opinion (Provo, UT United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Even my sister, an x-pat living in Beijing, was impressed with the maps in this book. She said they were better than any maps she'd been able to find in-country. We still did get lost a couple of times, but overall managed very well. Also, the small list of English/Pinyin/Character words in the back came in very handy when we needed to buy a phonecard and no one understood our feeble attempts at spoken Chinese.
informative and stylishly written December 12, 2000
charles young (London)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I used this book on a recent trip and found it excellent. Each time I followed its recommendations I was rewarded with a fascinating place that most tourists did not know about. This book gave me access to the city's excellent nightlife, which few tourists seem to know about, and gave me the low down on some great restaurants. It's also very well written - sometimes I laughed out loud at the authors sly, sceptical humour. My friend was travelling with the lonely planet but he soon abandoned it and kept borrowing my book.
The Best Guide Book I Have EVER Owned October 28, 2007
T. Parfitt (Taipei, Taiwan)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Going to Beijing? Bring this book. Everything about it is superb. It served me well on a five-week study sojourn a few years ago. In addition to being of excellent quality (everything in it is valuable), it is nice and compact and will fit right in your pocket. Great maps too. In short, the best guide book I've ever owned, and I've owned quite a few.
Troy Parfitt, author
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