3 China Trips from Hong Kong

Hong Kong is conveniently located close to mainland China and Macau, so if you're heading to this fascinating world city this year why not combine a visit to our list of three ETG recommended destinations.

You can now download eBook versions of Lonely Planet as individual chapters for a few euros, and read them on your tablet, smartphone, eBook reader or laptop.

ETG Tip: Gambling in China is a popular past time, so if you do happen to visit any of three destinations on our list keep an eye out for freebies. Many casino hotels offer discounted rates in the hope you'll play the roulette table, and cheap/ free drinks and food are often available.

Lighten your luggage! 



3 China Trips from Hong Kong



Like a shot of adrenalin, Hong Kong quickens the pulse. Skyscrapers march up jungle-clad slopes by day and blaze neon by night across a harbour crisscrossed by freighters and motor junks. Streets teem with traffic, and five-star hotels sit alongside ageing tenement blocks.


 1. China - Macau (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

 Mainlanders can't get enough of this once Portuguese-administered backwater-turned-gambling-megaresort - the Vegas of the East. Beyond the gaming halls, it offers cobblestoned streets punctuated with Chinese temples and baroque churches, pockets of greenery and balmy beaches.
2. China - Guangdong (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

 This is the Guangdong chapter from Lonely Planet's China guidebook.
3. China - Hainan (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

 China's largest tropical island boasts all the balmy weather, coconut palms and gold-sand beaches you could ask for. When you've had enough of a lathering on the coast, the cool central highlands are an ideal place to be on two wheels.