Exploring Hong Kong

Most visitors think of Hong Kong as mainly an exotic shopping destination. In the past decade, however, Hong Kong has revved up its sight-seeing prospective, opening new city parks and refurbishing older ones constructing community art spotlights, expanding museums or developing new hubs, and reprogrammed sightseeing tours intentionally to give an impressive outlook to the visitors.

Although some attractions closed after the handover, new ones have opened or are work in progress, including own Disneyland by 2006. On the other hand, if all you want to do is hiketramp or lie on any of the coastline, you can do that too.

If you really want to explore Hong Kong, do stay at least 5 days to a week. As the city is so compact and its transportation is so well-organized, you can go anywhere without any issues.

The 4 main activities I would recommended to every visitors to the Hong Kong are:

- Get into the Star Ferry to across the harbor

- Take the Peak tram to the top of Victoria Peak for a romantic, spectacular night time view of Hong Kong, ablaze with glittering lights.

- Ride one of the rickety old trams on Hong Kong Island

- Take a ferry to one of the outlying islands
Nothing can beat the excitement of these four experiences, or give you a better insight into the essence of Hong Kong and its people. What's more, they're all incredibly cheap.

If you still have spare time to walk around, think about taking a night stroll at Tsim Sha Tusi waterfront. It stretch from Star Ferry terminus all the way through Tsim Sha Tsui East, with very romantic views of a lit-up Hong Kong Island across the choppy waters. Best of all is the nightly "Symphony o Lights" between 8 to quarter past 8, when an impressive laser and light show is projected from 18 buildings on Hong Kong island.

The Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront is very safe at night, as it has lots of people. As for Victoria Peak, I have walked it alone several times in the night, but to be honest, it's probably would be better to accompany with someone else.

Will come back to you more about an introduction of yummy food in Hong Kong.