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- Hong Kong
- Capital
- Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
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- Population
- HK
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Travel Blogs from Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Peak!
... I was heading toward the Peak Tram, I saw a few Architectural landmarks, I.M. Pei's Bank of China and Norman Foster's Bank of Hong Kong and Shanghai. Pretty awesome sights to see. Later on, I'll tell you something else I saw there. ...
Hong Kong - The Final Blast
... I slammed the door on my way out to register my disappointment that i had not been on the bunk rotation schedule. HONG KONG - A HARD WEEKS RELAXING So there is more to the place than my previous booze afflicted evening wanderings uncovered when ...
Viva Hong Kong!
... Kee, supposedly one of the nicest dim sum houses in Hong Kong. Yung Kee is probably the most famous Cantonese restaurant in Central Hong Kong. The room was very formal and a bit more expensive than the rest; additionally the choices on the dim sum menu ...
Day 9 - Hong Kong
Unfortunately we didn't manage to make it to a tai chi lesson we fancied which started at 8am on the same morning we returned from our night out. Instead we had a well deserved lie in from all our frantic travels and then headed out to Lantau Island. ...
Busy Hong Kong
... Hong Kong was returned to China and 156 years of British colonial rule ended. As part of this transfer it was agreed that Hong Kong would become a special administrative region of China for 50 years, with its own parliament, its own laws, its own currency ...
Here a SAR, there a SAR
... to be under foreign rule until it was given back to the Chinese government in 1999, 2 years after Britain handed back Hong Kong. Christianity was first introduced into Asia from Portuguese Jesuit's in Macau. Many of the gorgeous Catholic churches they ...
A day at the races ...
... beer. I'm already loving Hong Kong, and feel like I've made some great new friends. It's funny that a few years ago I don't think Hong Kong would have been a 'must visit' destination on my travel list. Now however, I'm very glad I added it to my travel ...
Central Hong Kong Island
After broken sleep on the flight, I was glad to get off, passport control was long winded for an international Airport. Onto the MRT city train ($100 HK), smart clean fast and safe, then free buses to most hotels or at least within short walk of another ...
Hong Kong and Macau
... it wasn't all bad looking out from a beach on Repulse Bay (wasn't actually that repulsive..), but oh, what it could have been... Hong Kong is a city in which it is easy to get lost, however fun in itself that was, just walking aroudn for hours trying ...