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This portable, attractive travel guide includes a 64-page insider guide, compass, and PopOut™ maps to help you travel intelligently around Hong Kong. This guide highlights the city's main attractions, including all the new skyscrapers, The Peak, museums, galleries, and parks, plus day trips to Lantau and resorts outside Hong Kong city. It covers 50 stores in this shopper's paradise, including shopping malls, designer emporiums, antiques stalls, the world-famous Sunday market at Stanley, and the Chinese apothecaries along Nathan Road in Kowloon. Listings cover all the major concert, drama, and operatic venues, as well as sporting facilities such as the Hong Kong Sevens. Hong Kong Insideout Guide reviews accommodations from five-star hotels to backpacker hostels and restaurants of every kind, from dim sum to elaborate 15-course feasts. A concluding section provides transportation, weather, and regional custom information. Bound in durable, flexible gunmetal-gray and black plastic, with colorful photos throughout, these pocket books stand up to frequent use on-the-go and have tremendous visual appeal.