Your marathon guide to Beijing

With Beijing set to host this summer’s Olympics, much of the capital’s landscape has changed rapidly in preparation for the influx of visitors. Major sites have been updated, renovated, reinforced and protected, while formerly closed temples and gardens have been opened to woo the army of visitor

Beijing boasts a slew of new hotels and restaurants, with the possibility of advance online bookings. And visitors are now guaranteed easier mobility with more flights, trains, taxis and buses to and from China’s capital. Such positive changes are sure to provide a stimulus to exploring the breadth and depth of Beijing, “an elusive city, where the dreamlike is constantly clashing with the everyday”.

In “Beijing Walks”, Don Cohn - who has visited the city more than 200 times since the 1980s - introduces six walking routes: the Forbidden City; the former Legation Quarter and Tiananmen Square; Beihai Park; the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Sky;



the Confucius Temple; and the Imperial Academy, the Lama Temple and the Summer Palace.



These tours provide clues to the riches of Old Peking, more and more of which is fast vanishing.



Told through foreign travellers’ accounts, lavish illustrations and quotes from notable figures in history, the guide comes complete with maps, detailed instructions of where to go and other practical facts and figures.
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