And do not miss the Yuen Po Street Bird Garden, Flower Market Road or the Hong Kong skyline view from Inakaya restaurant on the 101st floor of the International Commerce Centre (acrophobics need not apply).

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Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.

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Floating on the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbor, the duck is visible from many towers in Hong Kong's glittering skyline.

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That skyline also attests to Hong Kong's rapacious appetite for the new: Few examples of traditional Chinese or more recent colonial architecture stand outside of museums, while contemporary works by Norman Foster and I.

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Even the adult-only spaces feature a little bit of Disney magic: the backdrop of the Skyline bar changes daily to reveal a different city view, transporting guests to Hong Kong, Paris, Chicago and New York.

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