Let's Go China 5th EditionCompletely revised and updated, Let's Go: China is your comprehensive guide to Asia's most exciting destination. Let's Go's forty-five years of travel savvy deliver must-have practical information. This edition boasts more outdoors activities, expanded must-see historical sights, and brand-new coverage of trekking, ethnic villages, and daytrips. An extensive chapter on alternatives to tourism helps you find ways to extend your stay and make a difference, while a phrasebook in Mandarin, Cantonese, Tibetan, and Uighur will help you get there, get around, and get busy, no matter where you may be. So, whether you'd rather chat it up with monks or trek to alpine lakes and glacier-capped peaks, Let's Go's intrepid researchers can lead the way. |
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Contents
When to Go | 1 |
ESSENTIALS | 4 |
Safety and Health | 23 |
Getting to China | 34 |
Getting Around China | 43 |
Keeping in Touch | 49 |
Accommodations | 55 |
Specific Concerns | 65 |
Tiger Leaping Gorge 虎跳峡 | 680 |
Deqin 德钦 | 686 |
Leshan F L | 703 |
Kangding | 714 |
Songpan | 720 |
CHONGQING Í N | 727 |
THREE GORGES | 734 |
THE NORTHWEST | 741 |
LIFE AND TIMES | 73 |
People | 84 |
Culture | 93 |
Additional Resources | 102 |
Studying | 112 |
BEIJING AND THE NORTH | 119 |
Great Wall 长城 | 166 |
HEBEI 6 | 176 |
Shanhaiguan | 187 |
Taian | 196 |
Qufu | 203 |
Yantai ta 6 | 216 |
THE NORTHEAST | 223 |
Qiqihar | 232 |
JILIN | 240 |
Yanji | 247 |
Lushan L | 439 |
Jinggangshan 井冈山 | 444 |
Baoshan and Dehong 2 | 662 |
Common terms and phrases
ACCOMMODATIONS Bank bath Beijing block Bridge building Bus Station buses Central checks China Chinese clean Cultural Dajie dishes Dong Lu dorms doubles Dynasty east English entrance fare ferry flights foreigners Garden Gate Hall head hill Hong Kong Hospital Hotel houses International Internet intersection Island Lake leave live look Market mountain Museum night offers Open daily Pagoda Park past path Peak Post Renmin restaurants River road rooms runs serves Shanghai side sights Singles Square stay stop street summer Take bus taxi Temple ticket tour tourists Tower town train station TRANSPORTATION turn village visa visitors walk Wall Western Xi Lu zhàn Zhong Zhongshan
Bibliographic information
| Title | Let's Go China 5th Edition LET'S GO CHINA Let's Go Series Let's go travel guide |
| Editor | Shelley Jiang |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0312320051, 9780312320058 |
| Length | 896 pages |
| Subjects | › › Travel / Asia / China |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |