Hong Kong photo roundup

Lantau, Hong Kong

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Hong Kong is one of Asia’s busiest, frenetic and crowded cities and boasts the world’s densest collection of skyscrapers. But it is also filled with mountains, country parks, beaches and islands. Hong Kong actually is made up of three main parts: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. Its outlying southern islands or Islands District, including Lantau Island, where the airport is located, can be said to be a fourth part (administratively, the Islands District is part of New Territories).

Hong Kong Island is where the main government and business areas are located. However, the island is also very hilly in the center and the south. In the southeastern corner of the island is Dragon’s Back, considered one of the world’s best coastal hikes.
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Convention centre and the IFC, Hong Kong’s second-tallest skyscraper, at right
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Causeway Bay, the island’s main shopping districtHong Kong skyline at night
Famous Hong Kong Island skyline at night
View from Dragon's Back, Hong Kong
View of Shek O village from Dragon’s Back, southeast Hong Kong Island

Opposite Hong Kong Island is Kowloon, which faces it like a soft arrowhead. Kowloon is where the main shopping and working-class areas are located.
Mongkok, Kowloon
Busy market in Mongkok, a busy and notorious Kowloon district
Lion Rock, Hong Kong
View of Kowloon with Hong Kong Island in the background on the left
Kowloon, Hong Kong
I actually stayed inside this place once
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The New Territories is Hong Kong’s little-known rural backyard, and is actually the largest of the three. There are rural villages, farms, mountains, coastal villages, and wetlands, as well as densely-populated towns.
New Territories, Hong Kong
Fisherman selling his catch at Sai Kung, on the east coast
New Territories, Hong Kong
Actual farmland in Hong Kong
Wetland Park, New Territories, Hong Kong
Wetland Park in Tin Shui Wai, northwest New Territories. Next to it are apartment blocks.
Wetland Park, New Territories, Hong Kong
Birds at Wetland Park
New Territories, Hong Kong

Walled village in New Territories, Hong Kong
Walled village, centuries-old relic of a time when villagers feared bandits and pirates. Only found in the New Territories, there are less than a handful left.

Hong Kong’s main outlying islands include Lantau and smaller ones like Lamma island and Cheung Chau, which still have local fishing villages and laidback communities. Tai O village, Lantau, Hong Kong
Tai O village, Lantau
Lantau, Hong Kong

Big Buddha, Lantau, Hong Kong
Tian Tan Buddha, better known as Big Buddha
Lantau Peak, Lantau, Hong Kong
Lantau Peak
Lamma, Hong Kong
Lamma Island
Cheung Chau, Hong Kong
Cheung Chau, a tiny island to the east of Lantau

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