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Lonely Planet Beijingis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wander the enchanting hutongs, gaze in awe on the Forbidden City, or hike the Great Wall of China, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Beijing and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planets Beijing Travel Guide:
Full-colourmaps and images throughout
Highlightsand itinerarieshelp you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
Insider tipsto save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
Essential infoat your fingertips- hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
Honest reviews for all budgets- eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
Cultural insightsgive you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, architecture, food
Free, convenient pull-outBeijing map(included in print version), plus over 29 colour maps
CoversForbidden City area, Dongcheng, Chaoyang, Sanlitun, the Great Wall, Ming Tombs, and more
eBook Features:(Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones)
Downloadable PDF and offline mapsprevent roaming and data charges
Effortlessly navigateand jump between maps and reviews
Add notesto personalise your guidebook experience
Seamlessly flipbetween pages
Bookmarksand speedy searchcapabilities get you to key pages in a flash
Embedded linksto recommendations websites
Zoom-inmaps and images
Inbuilt dictionaryfor quick referencing
The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet Beijing,our most comprehensive guide to Beijing, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled.
Looking for just the highlights of Beijing? Check outPocket Beijing,a handy-sized guide focused on the cant-miss sights for a quick trip.
Looking for more extensive coverage? Check outLonely Planets Chinaguide for a comprehensive look at all the China has to offer, orDiscover China,a photo-rich guide to the countrys most popular attractions.
Authors:Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Daniel McCrohan and David Eimer.
About Lonely Planet:Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the worlds leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
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Beijing
Inextricably linked to its glorious, notorious past, yet hurtling towards a power-charged future, Beijing one of history's great cities is as complex as it is compelling.
Food is an obsession for the Chinese and the dazzling array of different dishes youll encounter in Beijing reflects the sheer joy locals take in eating. Dining out is the main social activity; its in restaurants that Beijingers hang out with friends, romance each other, hold family reunions and do business, and the variety of restaurants here is mesmerising. Local menus will have you salivating over succulent Peking duck, delicious dumplings and awesome noodles, but theres food from every corner of China (and beyond) to be sampled too. From fiery Sichuanese to Turkicinspired Uighur cuisine, Beijing's restaurants have got it covered.
Few places on earth can match the extraordinary historical panorama on display in Beijing. There are six Unesco World Heritage sites in this city alone (just one less than the whole of Egypt). At its heart is the magnificent Forbidden City, a royal palace on a scale like no other. Beijing is also home to sublime temples that aspire to cosmological perfection, while the city centre is crisscrossed by enchanting hutong: ancient alleyways that teem with life today, as they did hundreds of years ago. And, to cap it all, the awe-inspiring Great Wall snakes its way across the hills north of town.
It's not just the ancient architecture that wows tourists. Beijing is also home to some of the world's most innovative modern buildings. The world's leading architects clamber for the chance to make their mark on this new global powerhouse, and jaw-dropping structures like the CCTV Building, Galaxy Soho, the NCPA concert hall and the Olympic Stadium are clear signs that Beijing is not shy about proclaiming its status as Chinas capital. Like the temples and palaces of the ancient past, and the imposing socialist realist monuments of the 1950s, these latest additions are built on a scale that screams look at me!.
Beijing isnt just the political centre of China its the cultural heart of the country too. The nations top artists, writers, movie-makers and musicians converge here, making this the place to take the pulse of Chinas rapidly evolving cultural scene. With top-class museums, galleries galore, and an increasing number of music venues, theres enough to keep you busy day and night. Beijing is also the centre for the traditional Chinese performing arts. Whether its the mystique of Peking opera, tumbling acrobats or the graceful lines of Chinese classical dance that entrances you, the capital has it and more.
By Daniel McCrohan, Author
I love the food, the abundance of restaurants, the cheap beer and the lack of table manners. I love the hutong, the parks and the taichi. I love drinking tea (proper tea; not Tetley), playing table tennis, flying kites, and being able to cycle everywhere, even to the Great Wall! Most of all, though, I love Beijing's capacity to surprise. After a decade of living here, I still find something unexpected almost every day: a phrase I hadn't heard, a mannerism I hadn't noticed, a new shop, a new bar, or even, when I'm especially lucky, a long-abandoned temple I never knew existed.
Chinas most famous landmark, and one of the world's superlative manmade sights, the Great Wall snakes its way across northern China for almost 9000km, but nowhere beats Beijing as a base for mounting your assault. Scattered throughout the municipality are more than a dozen fragmented stretches, from the perfectly chiseled to the charmingly dilapidated. You can get to them by bus, by train, by taxieven by bicycle. And the adventurous can hike along it for days. The question isnt whether to see the Great Wall; its how.
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