Take a fresh approach to Hong Kong with this "Step by Step" guide, part of a brand new, stylishly designed series from Insight Guides. Lavishly illustrated in full colour, this book features 18 irresistible self-guided walks and tours, written by a local expert and packed with great insider tips. Whether you are new to the city or a repeat visitor, whatever your interests, and however long your stay, this book is the perfect companion, showing you the smartest way to link the sights and taking you beyond the beaten tourist track. All the walks and tours come with clear, easy-to-follow full-colour maps and hand-picked places to eat and drink en route. A 'Key Facts' box at the start of each tour highlights the recommended time needed to enjoy it to the full, plus the distance covered and a start and end point; all this makes it simple to find the perfect tour for the time you have to spare. The book also recommends top tours by theme and includes a special 'Only in' feature, highlighting a number of experiences

Take a fresh approach to San Fransisco with this "Step by Step" guide, part of a brand new, stylishly designed series from Insight Guides. Lavishly illustrated in full colour, this book features irresistible self-guided walks and tours, written by a local expert and packed with great insider tips. Whether you are new to the city or a repeat visitor, whatever your interests, and however long your stay, this book is the perfect companion, showing you the smartest way to link the sights and taking you beyond the beaten tourist track. All the walks and tours come with clear, easy-to-follow full-colour maps and hand-picked places to eat and drink en route. A 'Key Facts' box at the start of each tour highlights the recommended time needed to enjoy it to the full, plus the distance covered and a start and end point; all this makes it simple to find the perfect tour for the time you have to spare. The book also recommends top tours by theme and includes a special 'Only in' feature, highlighting a number of experience

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes,beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that youarrive at your destination aware of basic manners, commoncourtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell youwhat to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport withyour hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear ofembarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliarsituations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful businessrelationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture andsociety of a particular country. It will help you to turn yourvisit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable andenriching experience. Contents include * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * do's, don'ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken "Culture Smart has come to the r

It's time to get happy! All around the world, people find waysto make sense of their lives and environments, little secrets tomaking life easier and more enjoyable. Like letting go of thelittle things at the Lantern Festival in Thailand. Or learning toaccept transience by making sand mandalas in Tibet. Break out ofyour own bubble with the Italian tradition of passeggiata, orcelebrate the fruit of your labour like the Barbadians at theexhilarating Crop Over festival. Happy brings these culturalsecrets together and shows you how to apply them at home to bring alittle bit of lightness to your day. And your life!

As the traveler at a neighboring table struggles with themenu, you're glad you came equipped with your phrasebook. Not onlydid you order your meal with ease, you're also sure of what'scoming. You smile as the waiter brings your dish and say en miniizakhialsan khool bish... Travel with confidence, using language asyour guide. Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical andsocial words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with thelocals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich yourtravel experience.

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What Will Your Tokyo Encounter Be? Waking at dawn for the freshest sushi breakfast at TsukijiMarket? Soaking away your cares the traditional way in a popularneighborhood "onsen"? Sipping sake in the tiny bars of illustrious Golden Gai? Gazing upon architectural marvels, from the city 's oldest temple,Sonso-ji, to the ultramodern Tokyo International Forum? Strutting down Ginza 's boulevard lined with fashion straight offthe catwalks? Root, root, rooting for the home team at Japan 's temple tobaseball, then celebrating the win on Tokyo Dome City 's rollercoaster? Discover Twice The City In Half The Time Full-color pull-out map for easy navigation Our experienced author recommends the top neighborhoods, shops,restaurants, sights and entertainment Unique itineraries and must-see highlights help you make the mostof a short break Locals reveal Tokyo 's insider secrets: from an AcademyAward-nominated actress favorite theatres to an entrepreneur 'squintessential Tokyo experience

A brand new 'Smart Guide' from Insight, featuring an A-Z formatthat allows you to find your way around the book with ease and planyour trip according to your very own personal taste. Themedheadings cover over 400 things to see and do from architecture,history, cafes and hotels, to fashion, nightlife, restaurants,bars, shopping and much more, allowing you to set your ownpriorities for a truly tailor-made and individual travelexperience. The front-cover flap highlights all the top attractionsand pinpoints exactly where to find these within the guide, forquick and easy reference at a glance. Area overviews convenientlyhighlight the very best each district has to offer from Deira andthe Marina in Dubai, to the Corniche in Abu Dhabi, exploring allthe mosques, souks and oases along the way. The guide also containsa transport map and street atlas with full index and detailedmapping, cross-referenced to the main text for easy navigation. Theback-cover flap provides on-the-spot practical information, such asimportant

Content reflects the hottest must-have experiences. Author is aresident New Yorker.

Looking around you in New York you might have to look up tosee the city?s finest features. From the Empire State Building tothe Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Fifth Avenue to Broadway, mustsees New York City hits the highlights. Sights within must sees NewYork are grouped according to Michelin?s time-honored star-ratingsystem, which for more than 100 years has guided travelers to thebest a place has to offer. The Michelin Man symbol represents thetop picks for activities, entertainment, where to eat and where tostay.

With all the essential words and phrases travellers need,Lonely Planet's illustrated phrasebooks are an indispensabletravelling companion. Conveniently pocket-sized, each languageguide provides extensive vocabulary lists, a two-way dictionary andan easy-to-follow pronunciation key. Also included is culturalbackground and solid advice for challenging situations in remotelocations.

Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe bycollecting the best writing on travel from the books that shapedhim, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, partmiscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “TheContents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wroteabout Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in“Travel as an Ordeal” and highlights some of “Travelers’ FavoritePlaces.” Excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work areinterspersed with selections from travelers both familiar andunexpected: Vladimir Nabokov J.R.R. Tolkien Samuel Johnson Eudora Welty Evelyn Waugh Isak Dinesen Charles Dickens James Baldwin Henry David Thoreau Pico Iyer Mark Twain Anton Chekhov Bruce Chatwin John McPhee Freya Stark Peter Matthiessen Graham Greene Ernest Hemingway The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and painsof travel in its golden age.

The Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp Ghent Encounterguide gives you twice the cities in half the time. Psst! The secret's out: there's more to Belgium than chocolateand beer. Delve a bit deeper and you'll discover cities brimmingwith art, parks, markets and unexpected charm. This pared-down number is ideal for quick trips - it's lessaccommodation, more neighbourhood highlights and the best of localknowledge. * Full-colour pull-out map and detailed neighbourhood maps * Interviews with locals reveal Belgium's secrets andsurprises * Expert author's best restaurants, shops and night spots * Info on exploring the cities by bike

Hall relates his encounters with Serbs, Croats, and Muslims,"real people, likeable people" who are now overcome with suspicionsand anxiety about one another. Hall takes the standard explanationsand inverts our perceptions of the country. What emerges is aportrait of a country that possibly should never have been, and isin the process of insuring that it will never be again.

This stunning volume was the gift book of the year when it firstpublished, and the images that grace its pages remain iconic. Fromthe famous Afghan girl whose haunting green eyes stare out from thebook’s cover, and her poignant story that captured the world’sinterest, to award-winning photography culled from the Society’svast archives, The Photographs offers readers an inside look atNational Geographic and a sharp-eyed view of the world. The bookshowcases the skill and imagination of such notable Geographicphotographers as David Doubilet, William Albert Allard, Sam Abell,Jim Stanfield, Jodi Cobb, Jim Brandenburg, David Alan Harvey, andmany more. They share their techniques, as well as personal andcolorful anecdotes about individual images and their adventures inthe field—sometimes humorous, sometimes terrifying, always vividlycompelling. Author Leah Bendavid-Val writes about thephotographers’ achievements from technical, journalistic, andartistic perspectives. Five chapters cover core Nationa

Mother Nature wasn't messing around when she created the GrandCanyon, slicing through Arizona with 277 miels of red rock spires,stomach-churning drops and wide open spaces. Whether you're an avidhiker, geology nut or sunset seeker, maximize your trip with thistop-selling guide to the USA's most iconic national park.

MustSees Paris, a new addition to the MustSees series, hitsthe city's highlights for a 24-hour visit, a weekend or longer.Visit iconic sights like the Eiffel Tower, Sacre Coeur and NotreDame. Dive into art at the Louvre, Pompidou Centre, Musee d'Orsayand the new Centquatre. Stroll the Champs-Elysees or Ile St-Louis,and then have dinner in the Marais. This pocket-size guide helpsyou do it all with detailed maps, recommended hotels and MustSeesstar-rating system.

Discover Barcelona Leave your preconceptions about architecture behind at thecurving, coral-like facade of Gaudí’s whimsical Casa Batlló Send your tastebuds to seafood heaven with a plate of fideuà(Catalan noodles) at a beachfront restaurant near PortOlímpic Join in the chants of ‘Bar?a, Bar?a, Baaar?a!’ at Camp Nou, thelegendary home ground of the Barcelona football club Witness the eccentric heights of Catalan creativity in themuseums and galleries of Montju?c, Barcelona’s cultural hub In This Guide One local author, more than 500 hours of research, more than 200eating and drinking recommendations, and untold morsels of tapassampled Color sections on the top Barcelona experiences, and awesomearchitecture from Gaudí to the Torre Agbar Content updated daily - visit www.lonelyplanet.com/spain/barcelona for up-to-the-minutereviews, updates and traveler insights

This title is a follow-up to the best-selling Signspotting . So,you're back on the road, it's getting dark and you've lost yourspot on the map - this is one way to get off the beaten touristtrack! Unless, of course, you're willing to take directions fromthe signs found within these covers. Whatever adventure you'reafter - whether it be a trip to the Curry Prevention Services Unitin Oregon or the Ha Ha Cemetery in New Brunswick, Canada - let ournew collection of signs from around the globe continue to guide,confuse and amuse you!

A brand new series from "Insight" brings you the "Smart Guide"for smart travelers. The unique and innovative A-Z format of "SmartGuides" allows you to plan your trip according to your own personaltaste. Themed headings cover over 400 amazing things to see and doin Barcelona, from architecture, bars, cafes, churches, fashion,history, hotels, museums, nightlife, restaurants, shopping, theatreand much more for a truly tailor-made, individual travelexperience. Area overviews conveniently highlight the best eachdistrict has to offer helping you to set priorities for your tripand the front-cover flap highlights all the top sights Barcelona.The guide also contains a street atlas with full index and detailedmapping which is cross-referenced to the main text for ease of useand transport maps are provided to help you get around and explore.The back-cover flap provides useful phrases to help you get by,along with other useful contact information.

The Milan Encounter guide gives you twice the city in half thetime. This pared-down number is ideal for quick trips - it's lessaccommodation, more neighbourhood highlights and the best of localknowledge. * Interviews with locals keep travelers in the know on thefull Milan experience * Full of shopping tips to ensure travelers know where to go forthe latest trends * Chapter for each neighborhood highlighting the best sights,shops, eating, drinking, and entertainment * Pocket-sized guide and pull-out map for handy reference

Step-by-Step Sydney reveals this exciting city through aselection of clearly laid-out walks and tours, complemented bybeautiful, full-color pictures, an authoritative narrative voice,and a wealth of practical information, all in a compactpackage. The guide starts with Recommended Tours, suggesting the book’sbest tours for swimmers, art-lovers and shoppers, amongothers. In the Overview, an engaging introduction reveals essentialbackground information on Sydneyside culture, geography, andlifestyle, plus the lowdown on food, drink, shopping,entertainment, history and Sydney’s outdoors attractions. Thisprovides all the background information needed to set the walks andtours in context. The Walks and Tours section features 14 irresistible self-guidedroutes, from the harbour and Central Business District to thetrendy inner suburbs of Surry Hills and Paddington, on to thebeaches at Bondi and Manly, and finishing in the outdoor splendorsof the Blue Mountains and Royal National Park. All s

The Hong Kong Encounter guide gives you twice the city in halfthe time. Hook into the city's high-voltage pace - bounce from wetmarkets to the Happy Valley Racecourse, from yum cha and Taoisttemples to sleek skyscraper bars. * Includes coverage of Macau *Fully updated by life-long resident author