Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Though the HSBC (Hongkong & Shanghai Bank) Building and the Hong Kong International Airport, both by English architect Norman Foster, may be Hong Kong’s…
Must-see attractions in Hong Kong
Kowloon
One of the oldest surviving school buildings in Hong Kong, the Kowloon British School was established in 1902 to teach the children of expat residents…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
This unspectacular-looking sports ground is in fact the social hub of old Wan Chai, offering a cross-section of life in the hood at any time of the day…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Lovers' 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. Adorned with incense and…
New Territories
Located between Yuen Long and Sheung Shui, this splendid Mandarin-style building complex dating from 1865 is eclectically fused with western design…
Hong Kong
Dr Sun Yat-Sen was a key figure in the fight to establish a Chinese republic and served as its first president in the days after the revolution in 1911,…
New Territories
This brightly coloured Taoist temple perched on a hillside opposite Fanling MTR station is one of Hong Kong's most important Taoist temples. It was…
Yuen Long
A finely decorated 15th-century structure in the southwest corner of Shui Mei Village, Tang Ching Lok Ancestral Hall is a gathering point for descendants…
New Territories
Hong Kong's largest public park and one of the most beautiful has tree-framed lawns for picnics and kite-flying, an amphitheatre with white sail canopies,…
Hong Kong
This complex of office towers houses the Hong Kong Stock Exchange but what comes as a complete surprise in Central's urban forest is the attractive,…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Crime-thriller fans should make a trip to this small museum in lush Wan Chai Gap. The protagonist in this former police station is the Hong Kong police…
Hong Kong
The awesome 70-storey Bank of China Tower, designed by IM Pei and completed in 1990, rises from the ground like a cube, and is then successively reduced,…
Hong Kong
Also called Lascar Mosque after the Indian sea people it was originally built for, Hong Kong's oldest mosque is a mint-green beauty now dwarfed by the Mid…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Crowded and cosmopolitan, dead Hong Kong is no different from the breathing city. Tombstones jostle for space at this Christian cemetery (c 1845) located…
Kowloon
Sitting atop a knoll adjacent to the Former Kowloon British School is this charming building in English Gothic style that houses Kowloon’s oldest…
Kowloon
Kowloon’s oldest Catholic church was built in 1905 with money donated by a Portuguese doctor in Hong Kong, initially for the benefit of the Catholics in…
Hong Kong
The world's longest covered outdoor people-mover zigzags from Central's offices to homes near Conduit Rd in the Mid-Levels using an 800m system of…
Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island
Warehouse Teenage Club (蒲窩青少年中心) occupies this charming red-brick building that used to be the Aberdeen Police Station. Built in 1891 on a hill rising on…
Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island
Renovated many times since it was built in 1773 by local fishermen, Ap Lei Chau's major temple is dedicated to Hung Shing, the protector of seafarers. Its…
Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island
Empty Gallery exhibits over 420 sq m of black-box space close to the Aberdeen Harbour, favouring experimental works of established and emerging artists…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Nestled in a nook on the southern side of Queen’s Rd East, this dark and rather forbidding temple is built atop huge boulders that used to overlook the…
Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island
Caught between a church and the thoroughfare, this temple has an eclectic deity collection, two moon gates and hovering incense coils. The stone columns,…
Kowloon
A stone's throw from Tin Hau Temple is this handsome Edwardian police station (c 1923) with arcades and arches. You may have caught a glimpse of it in the…
Cheung Chau Main Street & Vicinity
Outlying Islands
The island’s main settlement lies along the narrow strip of land connecting the headlands to the north and the south. The waterfront is a bustling place…
Hong Kong
Most things in Hong Kong exist in the sky, and the contemporary art scene is no different. H Queen's is a vertical arts centre right in the heart of…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
The archive is a cinephile's heaven. Its resource centre has over 6300 reels and tapes, as well as magazines and scripts related to Hong Kong cinema…
Lamma
A 25-minute walk southeast (1.7km) from the Yung Shue Wan ferry pier, Hung Shing Yeh beach is the most popular beach on Lamma. Arrive early in the morning…
Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market
Kowloon
This historic market, founded in 1913, is a cluster of one- and two-storey brick and stone buildings with pre-WWII signboards above the stalls. Although…
Palace of Moon & Water Kwun Yum Temple
Hong Kong
Not to be confused with Kwun Yum Temple nearby, this dimly lit temple honours Kwun Yum of a Thousand Arms. Kwun Yum (aka Guanyin) is the Goddess of…
Hong Kong
This busy street market has been providing Central Hong Kong with fruit, vegies, tofu, duck eggs and all variety of fermented beans and sauces for nearly…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Photography exhibitions are held three or four times a year inside this 1930s art-deco residence restored and opened as a museum by a former Hong Kong…
Kowloon
This excellent museum was closed at time of research while it undergoes a multimillion-dollar renovation. When open, it has galleries spread over six…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Like a sci-fi set from Blade Runner, this gritty, impossibly dense and vertiginous cluster of colourful apartments is one of the most instagrammed sights…
Kowloon
This incense-filled sanctuary built in the 19th century is one of Hong Kong’s most famous Tin Hau (Goddess of the Sea) temples, though restorations have…
Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island
So named because the owner believed that contemporary photography was not getting the attention it deserved in Hong Kong, Blindspot Gallery features the…
Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island
The 900 sq m de Sarthe Gallery takes up the 20th floor of a new office block. The French gallery has exhibited an array of Western and Asia artists, from…
Hong Kong
Just north of (and parallel to) Hollywood Rd is Upper Lascar Row, aka ‘Cat Street’, a pedestrian-only lane lined with antique and curio shops and stalls…
Kowloon
Clara and Gum, the founders of this edgy art space up three flights of stairs in a residential building, are passionate about nurturing the local art…
Kowloon
This 44m-high clock tower (1915) in red brick and granite on the southern tip of Salisbury Rd was once part of the southern terminus of the Kowloon–Canton…
Hong Kong
Built in 1840, Sheung Wan's oldest temple honours Kwun Yam, the Goddess of Mercy. It's a quaint-looking structure, with a magnificent and intricate brass…
