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National Geographic City Walking Guides

The City Walking Guides Series by National Geographic offers step-by-step, mapped itineraries that allow visitors to explore and navigate the worldโ€™s great cities like a local. The guides detail iconic landmarks as well as little-known gems and are fully illustrated.Each guide features the Whirwind Tours section that provides streamlined plans for seeing the entire city in a day or in a weekend, making sure the visitors see the very best, and includes walks themed around fun, food and visiting with kids.The Neighborhoods Walks section shows about 15 itineraries and keyed to points on the maps that lead the visitors to the best sights in the cityโ€™s boroughs, with site-by-site descriptions. This part also features In-Depth pages with interesting facts on major museums and other sites; Distinctly City pages highlighting the quintessential aspects of the city including architecture, culture, and the elements that make up the particular character of the city; Best Of pages grouping top sites by theme such as nightlife, city views, sport, etc. Savvy Traveller, Good Eats, and In The Know sidebars provide tips throughout on shopping, eating, and going out in the town, and insider tips.The Travel Essentials section helps with the logistics of planning the trip to the city, how to get around and highlights hand-picket hotels and restaurants. Detailed maps, colour photographs and On-The-Ground advice from expert travel writers provide inspiration and will enable the visitor to move around like a local.