Product Description
The world’s best-selling pocket guides have been fully revised and updated, featuring stunning new cover designs and freshly revised page layouts. This “Berlitz Pocket Guide” provides all the information you need to enjoy China. Clear colour-coded sections enable you to locate the information you need easily and full colour fold-out maps provide instant orientation wherever you are. The most popular attractions are highlighted and sport, shopping and entertainment are also detailed. “An Eating Out” section provides information on local specialities as well as useful Chinese vocabulary for ordering food and drinks. Accommodation for all budgets is recommended, along with other practical travel tips. Beautiful colour photographs accompany the text throughout, making this guide a pleasure to read before, during and after your visit.
From the Back Cover
Berlitz’s signature, pocket-size travel guide is designed for all types of travelers, from novice to experienced. Between the covers of this convenient book you’ll find extensive maps with 3-D icons of main sights, an index, and 16 pages of special hotel and restaurant recommendations catering to all budgest and tastes. There are also (where appropriate) hotel maps locating recommended establishments, and reference boxes which detail interesting and unique sights and attractions. Fold-out, quick-view front and back cover flaps display town plans or list the most frequently used local phrases and expressions. Available for over 100 destinations.
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We’ve bought Berlitz Guides before and have been thoroughly satisfied, but wondered how a pocket sized book could cover the vast expanse of China. But leave it to Berlitz- they’ve managed in a pocket-sized inexpensive book to cover highlights of history, geography, and essential tourist information of many of the locations tourists will visit. Our visit, including Beijing, Xian and Guilin, was covered well enough that we were able to communicate intelligently with the Chinese tourist agency planning our itinerary. Kudos to Berlitz Guide.
I recently took a trip to China. This book has good information but needs an update. Examples:
1. It says that the town of Yangshuo is “even prettier than Guilin, and without the full-on tour-group tourism of Guilin, attracts droves of independent travelers”. (p 108). The place is mobbed with tourists and tour buses. Pretty place, though.
2. It says that the Big Wild Goose Pagoda “rises in the middle of farming country”. (p 187) The pagoda is in the middle of a highly built-up area that probably has been built since the review was made.