Landmark sights in China

1. A Map

   Kong Residence

   • Shànghǎi, China
   • Sights › Landmark

   The Moorish-looking Kong Residence, built in 1924, is a former Kuomintang residence on the Duolun Road Cultural Street.

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   Lupu Bridge

   • Shànghǎi, China
   • Sights › Landmark

   For aerial views of the World Expo grounds and the city sprawl, climb up to a viewing platform at the apex of this suspension bridge. The entrance is located at the end of Luban Rd (under the bridge).

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   Lover’s Rock

   • Hong Kong, China
   • Sights › Landmark

   Lover’s Rock or Destiny’s Rock (Yan Yuen Sek) is a phallus-shaped boulder on a bluff at the end of a track above Bowen Rd. It’s a favourite pilgrimage site for women with relationship or fertility problems. It’s busy during the Maidens’ Festival, held on the seventh day of the seventh moon (mid-August). The easiest way to reach here is to take green minibus 24A from the Admiralty bus station. Get off at the terminus (Shiu Fai Tce) and walk up the path behind the housing complex.

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4. Public Viewing Gallery at Bank of China Tower

   • Hong Kong, China
   • Sights › Landmark

   The Bank of China (BOC) is headquartered in the awesome Bank of China Tower to the southeast of its old home (the Old Bank of China building at 1 Bank St). The tower was designed by Chinese-born American architect IM Pei and completed in 1990. This 70-storey building is Hong Kong’s third-tallest structure after Two International Finance Centre in Central and Central Plaza in Wan Chai. The asymmetry of the building is puzzling at first glance, but it’s really a simple geometric exercise. Rising from the ground like a cube, it is successively reduced, quarter by quarter, until the south-facing side is left to rise upward on its own. Many local Hong Kong Chinese see the…

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