Before You Go
The Essentials
The practical layer under the sightseeing: how the city is laid out, how to move around it, which airport you're landing at, and the history that explains what you're looking at.
Where The City Lives
Neighbourhoods
TODO — what each part of Hong Kong is like to walk around, and who lives there.
Browse 2 neighborhoods →The EssentialsHong Kong, the City
Seven and a half million people on a quarter of the land, with country park covering most of the rest.
Read more →The EssentialsA Short History of Hong Kong
Salt, pearls and walled villages, then a war about opium, a colony, an occupation, a refugee city and a handover.
Read more →The EssentialsGetting Around
One card for the metro, ferries, trams and buses, and a ferry crossing that costs almost nothing.
Read more →The EssentialsWhen to Go
October to December is the best of it. Summer is hot, humid and typhoon season.
Read more →The EssentialsWhat You Should Know
Octopus first, typhoon signals daily in summer, escalators on the right, and no sales tax at all.
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