Cheryl's Beijing guidebooks
DIY Beijing
If you’re going to Beijing, my DIY Beijing: a guide for the independent traveler is a must-read. It’s filled with useful information to make your trip more enjoyable, like this website only in more detail. It’s geared to the independent traveler, but travelers on packaged tours will find it useful for their free time.
While major tourist sites are included, the book favors off-the-beaten-path places that I liked to visit so much when I lived in Beijing and where I take friends who occasionally accompany me to Beijing. I like these sites because they’re generally not as crowded, and you get a better feel for the city. Few foreigners visit these attractions so they don’t seem as touristy.
Directions on how to get to these attractions by public transportation are included, as well as tips on how to get around on buses and subways.
DIY Beijing is filled with 68 pages of information to make your trip to Beijing the best it can be.
Here’s what one reader of DIY Beijing had to say about it:
“I read DIY Beijing cover-to-cover, highlighting as I read. I appreciate the pictures. The guide flows well and is easy to understand. . . I can’t wait to put the information into actual use.”
DIY Beijing is available as a PDF ebook at GuideGecko.com. The PDF version also works on Kindles, though the pictures are in black and white. A text-only version is available from the Amazon Kindle Store for the United States and the United Kingdom.
While major tourist sites are included, the book favors off-the-beaten-path places that I liked to visit so much when I lived in Beijing and where I take friends who occasionally accompany me to Beijing. I like these sites because they’re generally not as crowded, and you get a better feel for the city. Few foreigners visit these attractions so they don’t seem as touristy.
Directions on how to get to these attractions by public transportation are included, as well as tips on how to get around on buses and subways.
DIY Beijing is filled with 68 pages of information to make your trip to Beijing the best it can be.
Here’s what one reader of DIY Beijing had to say about it:
“I read DIY Beijing cover-to-cover, highlighting as I read. I appreciate the pictures. The guide flows well and is easy to understand. . . I can’t wait to put the information into actual use.”
DIY Beijing is available as a PDF ebook at GuideGecko.com. The PDF version also works on Kindles, though the pictures are in black and white. A text-only version is available from the Amazon Kindle Store for the United States and the United Kingdom.
Parents Guide to Beijing
The Chinese love children and will spoil your children given half a chance. So if you’re taking your kids (or grandkids) to Beijing, you simply must have a copy of Parents Guide to Beijing: a kid-friendly city!
It’s filled with activities that will delight children of all ages, from eight to 80, though it is geared for kids from five to 12 years old. The 52-page guide offers a variety of activities for you and your kids to do together, such as visit a park where they can play with Chinese kids while you get aquainted with their parents.
Parents Guide “offers sound practical advice and reveals a city full of exciting attractions for all the family,” says travel writer Solange Hando in a review.
Says travel writer Molly McHugh, reading Parents Guide “made me want to hop on a plane with my 11-year-old and go.” The book, she adds makes “China seem like a welcoming and attractive vacation option nstead of a distant inaccessible foreign country.”
Parents Guide to Beijing is available as a PDF ebook at GuideGecko.com. The PDF versions also work on Kindles, though the pictures are in black and white. A text-only version is available from the Amazon Kindle Store for the United States and the United Kingdom.
The PDF Parents Guide includes a list for kids to check off what they’ve seen as well as asks them to provide short answers to questions about Beijing.
It’s filled with activities that will delight children of all ages, from eight to 80, though it is geared for kids from five to 12 years old. The 52-page guide offers a variety of activities for you and your kids to do together, such as visit a park where they can play with Chinese kids while you get aquainted with their parents.
Parents Guide “offers sound practical advice and reveals a city full of exciting attractions for all the family,” says travel writer Solange Hando in a review.
Says travel writer Molly McHugh, reading Parents Guide “made me want to hop on a plane with my 11-year-old and go.” The book, she adds makes “China seem like a welcoming and attractive vacation option nstead of a distant inaccessible foreign country.”
Parents Guide to Beijing is available as a PDF ebook at GuideGecko.com. The PDF versions also work on Kindles, though the pictures are in black and white. A text-only version is available from the Amazon Kindle Store for the United States and the United Kingdom.
The PDF Parents Guide includes a list for kids to check off what they’ve seen as well as asks them to provide short answers to questions about Beijing.
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Copright 2012 by Cheryl Probst. All rights reserved.
Copright 2012 by Cheryl Probst. All rights reserved.