Cheung Chau Island
Cheung Chau, Hong Kong SAR, China
Cheung Chau is a car-free island 40 minutes by ferry from Central — a fishing community of narrow alleys, seafood restaurants, temples, and beaches that provides the most complete escape from urban Hong Kong available within the territory.
Chi Lin Nunnery & Nan Lian Garden
5 Chi Lin Drive, Diamond Hill, Hong Kong SAR, China
Chi Lin Nunnery is the most beautiful religious building in Hong Kong — a Tang Dynasty-style Buddhist complex built entirely of wood without a single nail, nestled against the hillside of Diamond Hill in a setting so serene that you forget you're in one of the densest cities on Earth.
Dragon's Back Trail
Shek O Rd, Tai Tam, Hong Kong SAR, China
Dragon's Back is the most popular hiking trail in Hong Kong — an 8.
Hong Kong Park & Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware
19 Cotton Tree Drive, Central, Hong Kong SAR, China
Hong Kong Park is an 8-hectare oasis in the middle of the most expensive real estate in Asia — a designed landscape of waterfalls, ponds, aviaries, and subtropical gardens wedged between the towers of Admiralty and the Peak.
Hong Kong Wetland Park
Wetland Park Rd, Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong SAR, China
Hong Kong Wetland Park is a 61-hectare nature reserve in the New Territories that most visitors never hear about — a restored wetland of mangroves, mudflats, reed beds, and freshwater ponds that is home to 260 bird species, including the endangered black-faced spoonbill, and that demonstrates the remarkable biodiversity of a territory where 75% of the land is countryside despite the urban density of the remaining 25%.
Kowloon Park
22 Austin Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Kowloon Park is Tsim Sha Tsui's green escape — a 13.
Lamma Island
Yung Shue Wan Back St, Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island, Hong Kong SAR, China
Lamma Island is Hong Kong's bohemian escape — a car-free island 30 minutes by ferry from Central where the pace drops from metropolitan to Mediterranean, the restaurants serve fresh seafood at waterfront tables, and the hiking trails cross green hills with views to the South China Sea.
Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery
220 Pai Tau St, Sha Tin, Hong Kong SAR, China
The Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery is a hillside Buddhist complex in Sha Tin that actually contains over 13,000 Buddha statues — lining the staircase to the monastery, filling the main hall, and occupying every available niche and shelf in a display of devotional excess that makes other temples look restrained.
Victoria Peak (The Peak)
The Peak, Hong Kong SAR, China
Victoria Peak is the most famous viewpoint in Hong Kong — a 552-metre mountain on Hong Kong Island whose summit terrace provides a panoramic view of the city's skyscrapers, Victoria Harbour, Kowloon, and the green islands of the New Territories that is consistently ranked among the greatest urban views in the world.
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