Monday, January 21, 2008

Hongkong Island

In Hong Kong island's bustling downtown districts, it can be difficult to see what you are in the middle of a very green and compact paradise. you truly are!
Most of the island is dedicated country parkland, boasting mountain hiking trails with unforgettable ocean vistas and harbour views.

Keen hikers can plan to traverse the island's grassy heights and wooded valleys on the Hong Kong trail. There are coastal villages and towns that still illustrate how much of Hong Kong's past belonged to fishing and farming families. Centuries-old temples and other relics also remind us that the island's inhabitants worked, prayed and prospered long before British colonists took control in the middle of the 19th century

Their island became a thriving imperial outposts, international entry port and financial centre. Reservoirs were created, roads sculpted, schools and mansions built. So was a great galaxy of country parks and public beaches that no other world-class city possesses. Take any of this section's trails to see and sense the happy contrasts of Hong Kong ancient and modern, Chinese and Western, traditional and futuristic.

Hong Kong tourism board

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