Beijing Discovery Tours

Life sometimes throws cruel ironic twists at a person, and the key to living a happy life is to make the best of what could otherwise be an unbearable situation. I mentioned in a previous post the tour guidebook about Dujiangyan that my friend had written, which has the incredibly tragically ironic title: Dujiangyan: in Harmony with Nature. I had attended a party to launch the book on April 30, 2008, and had even added a webpage to our website devoted entirely to Dujiangyan. Very sadly, it is one of the cities that has been hardest hit by the tragic earthquake of May 12, 2008 and its aftershocks. Thousands were killed in this great city alone, many of them young students killed when their classrooms collapsed.

So what to do with travel guide books for a destroyed city? The publishers have wisely decided to sell the books as a memorial to those great people of Dujiangyan and the surrounding area, with all proceeds going to the Dujiangyan Young Survivors group, a charity group donated to providing support services to the youth of Dujiangyan and Wenchuan who have been disproportionately affected by this enormous disaster. You can not only get a book about the great city that Dujiangyan once was, but you will also be donating to a worthy cause dedicated to efficiently using that money to help those that need it most. To buy the Dujiangyan guidebook, please visit the publishers homepage at www.cnlookingglass.com. 

To contact the Dujiangyan Young Survivors charity group, please email them at DJYoungsurvivors@yahoo.com.

It’s a good way to get a great book of the way that Dujiangyan was before May 12, 2008, and hopefully how it can be again in the future.