Mountains, harbour, and everything vertical
An independent guide to Hong Kong — 27 landmarks, museums, parks, venues and neighborhoods, walked and written up first-hand.
The ones you came for
Victoria Peak
The view that sells Hong Kong, reached by a tram at a gradient that pins you to the seat.
The Star Ferry
A ten-minute crossing on a green-and-white boat that has run since 1888 and costs less than a bottle of water.
Tian Tan Buddha and Po Lin Monastery
A 34-metre bronze Buddha on a Lantau hilltop, reached by 268 steps and a cable car over the sea.
M+
Asia's first global museum of visual culture, in a Herzog and de Meuron building with a screen on the side of it.
Temple Street Night Market
Stalls, fortune tellers and open-air seafood under the flyover, in the market that has supplied a hundred Hong Kong films with a backdrop.
Dragon's Back
An eight-kilometre ridge walk on Hong Kong Island with the sea on both sides, forty minutes from Central.
Hong Kong by category
Day-by-day itineraries
Neighborhoods
The essentials
How to get in from all three airports, how the subway and the ferries actually fit together, and the history that explains what you're standing in front of.
From the guide
Eating in Hong Kong
Cantonese cooking at every price, a diner cuisine invented here, and the highest concentration of restaurants of almost any city.
From Fishing Villages to One Country, Two Systems
A hundred and fifty-six years as a British colony, a handover with a fifty-year guarantee, and the twenty-five years since.
Getting Around Hong Kong
One card for the metro, the ferries, the trams, the buses and a great deal of your shopping.