Things to do in HongKong
Hong Kong is the intersection of Chinese culture and Western one, the old and the new. This place has an exceptional culture under two systems: former British colony and Special Administrative Region of China. It is the mix of finest Chinese and international cusine. Hong long is also considered shopping paradise. It enables you to buy the latest designed models. Here are some outstanding places and things to do in Hong Kong.
Victoria Tower
this is one of the only place you can see the whole tiny Hong Kong. Viewing the island from the famous vantage point, you will have the chance to see one of the most beautiful harbors worldwide and a grogeous skyline. The tower is located at the height of 396m and 156m below the Victoria Peak. It is meant to be prominent on the skyline without interfering the natural line of the hills, so it was built along the line of hills causing the tower possesses the height of only 428m from the sea level. All the busyness of and energy of Hong Kong is shown as you are looking down from the tower. Even the local residents are never tired of visiting. They sais that the tower reminded them where they were living in.
You can get to the peak by train at Peak Tram, the 120-year-old cable railway departing from Garden Road. It is fabulous for you to plan to reach the peak 30 minutes before the sunset to witness each light from the city to be turn off. That í super duper varicolored brilliant.
Enjoying tea in Lin Heung (“Fragrant Lotus”) Tea House
Clients compete to each other to have a shabby seat in shared table. The atmosphere feel like it is forever ever 1962 inside the Tea House with whirring ceiling fans, tic-tocking ancient clocks. If you want to have a Dim sum as visiting Hong Kong, it is the right place for you. Located in Hong Kong’s Central District, Lin Heung possesses an antique front-room in which there is no space for modernity or English language. Therefore, you should prepare for pantomime or finding a friend having ability to speak Cantonese. However, this deserves you tatse. You will never find Lin Heung’s tatse in any other restaurant or tea house. The tatse of Old Hong Kong without being interfered by a modern and busy Hong Kong.
Hiring a Junk
Hong Kong is not only a city, it a gorgeous archipelago of 260 islands. You might have never been to Hong Kong if you have not seen its unsmooth coastline, quiet coves or buffeted by the sea wind. Charter a “junk”, formerly refered to a traditional Chinese fishing boats, now named for any motorized pleasure vessels, to see the place belonging to generations of fishermen and pirates. Prepare for a picnic with cool beer or wine, and strolling from an islet to another. Or drop the anchor some isolated place to dive off the deck.
The Intercontinental’s Infinity Pools
Spenidng time here is not a cheap option. It takes you some $350 for hotel guest and up per night and the same for a day client of the spa. However, what you get back is super deserving. You will have the chance to view an impeccably landscaped, lie on 3th-floor spa deck, right next to Victoria Harbor, soak in 3 infinity pool staying in 3 different temperatures — hot, warm, and cold, have the front-view of Hong Kong skyline, be served by the ministrations of “pool butlers,” who silently refill your drinks and supply mists on your face, and feel fully smug as glance down upon tourist sweating on the harbour sidewalk below of you. This place is one of the Hong Kong ‘s secrets.
Taking Heli-tour of Hong Kong
The 80-year-old Penisula Hotel on Salisbury Road possesses swanky lounge reminiscing the very young days of Asian flights, in spite of being ruined the former elegant contours by a graceless 28-story extension. From the Clipper, clients will be led to a rooftop helistop and into a helicopter for an in-the-air tours of Hong Kong. Now the sparkling peninsula become tiny beneath your feet.
Having meal in Cha Chan Teng
During the emerging years of the 1960s-1970s, Hong Kong residents ordered an inflating dining options with connoisseurship but reasonable to their deposit. This came up with Cha Chang Teng. You will catch some local restaurants are trying to serve sumptuous-looking Western-style cuisine, yet strongly syncretic fare actually. Soya sauce chicken spaghetti or Western beef steak became must-have stuff for a sophisticated Friday night, kicking out things like yin-yang. Some Cha chan teng is still maintained due to serving the same food with reasonable price. However, gradually, they become enjoyable place, visited by young people to recall their childhoods by enjoying salads of tinned fruit cocktail and mayo and dipping down in retro décor.
Chungking Mansions
The other side of a sparkling and gorgeous “Asia’s World City” Hong Kong can be found in Kowloon peninsula, in a huge sleepless citadel called Chungking Mansions. It is a complex containing five 17-storey towers where serve as home of residential flats, low-rent guesthouses and offices, restaurants and shops, or money changers. Around 5,000 people are inhabiting here and this place drawn about 10,000 multinational visitors each day in order to buying and selling things. You can find almost everything from 2nd-hand mobile phones to 2nd-hand clothes. It is estimated that 20% of the mobile phones being used in sub-Saharan Africa have been purchased through this market. To witness global trade in the rawest form, just get to the third-floor arcade, and then you can end up with a curry inside a South Asian restaurants on the upper floor.
