Cultural Centre sights in Hong Kong
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Ngong Ping Plateau
Perched 500m up in the western hills of Lantau is the Ngong Ping Plateau, a major drawcard for Hong Kong day-trippers and foreign visitors alike, especially since 1993, when one of the world’s largest statues of Buddha was unveiled here. Po Lin Monastery is a huge Buddhist monastery and temple complex that was built in 1924. Today it seems more of a tourist honeypot than a religious retreat, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors a year and still being expanded. Most of the buildings you’ll see on arrival are new, with the older, simpler ones tucked away behind them. Bringing the masses in ever greater numbers to Po Lin is the 5.7km Ngong Ping 360, a cable car l…
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Hong Kong Cultural Centre
On the one hand there are those who say that the virtually windowless, ski-jump-shaped Cultural Centre clad in pink ceramic tiles is an aesthetic horror. On the other hand…no, actually, come to think of it there is no other hand. By any measure it is an eyesore. Despite being arguably the territory’s most derided landmark, making woeful use of its spectacular location (and being compared with everything from a cheaply tiled public toilet to a roadside petrol station), inside it is a world-class venue containing a 2085-seat concert hall, a Grand Theatre that seats 1750, a studio theatre for up to 535, rehearsal studios and an impressive foyer. The concert hall even has a R…
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