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Editor's Note

2008/10/01 13:00:00 US/Central

How could it have been planned any better?

We come off what were probably the best-run, most exciting Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and we get to plunge directly into the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day Golden Week holidays to recover from our Olympic withdrawal.

At BTM, where we produced in excess of 55 unique publications ranging from brochures to magazines, maps, guide books, information guides and a photo album and assisted with the Olympic Torch Relay and Paralympic Torch Relay Beijing legs and operations at the Beijing International Media Center, the holiday season couldn’t have come at a better time.

Travel plans in the office range from becoming reacquainted with the life of a couch potato to visiting friends and family and even trekking the mountains of Yunnan Province.

To be sure, this is one of the very best times to be in Beijing, and with recent cool weather, it’s even more so, but one of the best things about China’s capital is the ease it affords in getting to other places in China or Asia. This month, we have some travel tips compiled by writer Joyce Chao, advice from a tour agency leader about how to book a good trip and some other ideas offered by our own friends and editors, whether its exercising your legs climbing Xiang Shan (The Fragrant Hills) or visiting the now silent Olympic venues in Beijing, enjoying snacks in Tianjin or delving into China's amazing history in Xi’an. Of course, this is a great time to explore South China too. Hopefully we can offer something about that next month.

This is a time of repose, perhaps a time to bask a bit in Olympic success; yet it’s also a time to get ready for a return to normalcy. To be sure, Beijing’s traffic jams have returned; soon they will be followed by a resumption of construction, because Beijing is far from “done” with its plans for the future. The Olympic moment was just a “time out” in the bigger and more important game of making Beijing one of the world’s greatest capital cities in every way.

Enjoy your fall travel wherever you go, whatever you do.



 
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