Modern skyscrapers sit alongside historical sites in Hong Kong, showing what happens when the Western world successfully collides with the Orient.
For the urbanite, there’s hip hotels, top-notch dining, chic bars and modern shopping malls crammed with delights.
Yet conversely the city can also be appreciated as much by travellers in search of authenticity, as by marathon shoppers. In Hong Kong you can join in dawn taichi, dance to the drumbeat of a dragon boat, catch Chinese opera in a bamboo theatre and take a ride on a historic double-decker tram, before gazing out at the glorious harbour.
Nature lovers aren’t neglected either: over 70 per cent of Hong Kong is mountains, while nature reserves and the outlying islands (offering beautiful walks and hike trails) are never far away.
Spend even the smallest amount of time in Hong Kong – a city worth stopping in rather than using just as a transit hub – and you’ll quickly discover that you have a city break of epic proportions.
It’s not a cheap destination
