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Hong Kong is known as a "Shopping Paradise". You can find everything in Hong Kong. With competitive prices and a huge selection on variety of merchandises such as cosmetics and perfumes, watches and jewelry, cameras and electronics and high quality fashions and genuine leather goods, bring shoppers from all over the world. And no matter you enjoy to shop in the modern shopping mall, department store, designer boutique, factory outlet, outdoor market or street stall, Hong Kong has it all and much much more.

Hong Kong, also known to the locals as the desert of art and culture, has a beautiful Cultural Center at Tsim Sha Tsui to counter the bad name. But with the wide popularity of gossip magazines, comics with sex and violence, and proliferation of sub-cultures, Hong Kong, like other big cities, is being eroded by her urbanization process.

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Aberdeen
One of Hong Kong's oldest and most popular tourist attractions, Aberdeen consists of 600-odd junks that house some 6,000 of the territory's boat people The Aberdeen, the harbor home of several hundred junks where several thousand boat dwellers live. It's a true cultural experience, full of bright colors, strange sounds, and mystifying odors.

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Airport
Situated in one of the most densely populated area - Kowloon City, the Kai Tak International Airport is really something special for Hong Kong. Just step outside of the airport, and our tourists are already with our people. Scheduled for completion by 1997, the new airport at Chek Lap Kok island and reclamation is expected to solve both the capacity and environment problem of Kai Tak.

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Floating Restaurants
There are two famous floating restaurants in Aberdeen, which are the "Jumbo" and the "Tai Pak". Both have their own motor boats to offer free of charge services to ferry customers to and from Aberdeen and to and from Wong Chuk Hang. You can enjoy fresh and delicious seafood in the restaurants. On the other hand, you can enjoy a beautiful view of Aberdeen Harbor.

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Happy Valley
Between Wan Chi and Causeway Bay is Happy Valley. This is one of the horseracing venue in Hong Kong (the another one is in Shatin, New Territories). The first horseracing competition was held in Happy Valley in 1846. Happy Valley is very crowded on Wednesday evenings and on weekend afternoons during horseracing season from September to June.

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Lantau
Lantau Island  is the largest island of Hong Kong. It has 142 square kilometers but only with a population of about 25,000 or more. More than half of the island is designated as country parkland, with well-marked trails, and picnic, camping and barbecue sites and good beaches. Besides, the new Hong Kong International Airport is under construction on its northern coastline.

There are lots of interest places in Lantau, such as Mui Wo (also known as Silvermine Bay), Po Lin Monastery, Lantau Tea Garden, Lantau Peak , Tung Chung, Chek Lap Kok, Tung Chung Hau Wong Temple, Tai O, Tai O Kwan Tai Temple, Hau Wong Temple and Kun Yum Temple, Discovery Bay, etc.

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Ocean Park & Water World
These are the South-East Asia's largest entertainment and leisure complex. Its outdoor escalator system is the second-longest in the world. Visitors can choose either escalator or cable car to ride up to the headland. The features of Ocean Park includes spectacular shows by dolphins, killer whales and high-drivers; a shark aquarium; a glass-sided wave cove of seals and fairy penguins; a huge aviary; a butterfly house; funfair rides, including the Dragon rollercoaster, the Dinosaur Discovery Trail, etc.

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Repulse Bay
This is the most popular beach in Hong Kong Island, which surrounded by up-market residential apartments. The most attraction on the beach are two huge statues of deities "God Of Mercy" and "Tin Hau", both are protectors of the fishermen. Nearby, the Repulse Bay complex, formerly the Repulse Bay Hotel, houses a variety of shops and restaurants. If you are interest, you can walk to Deep Water Bay and Aberdeen along the waterfront of the beach.

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Temple Street Night Market
Temple Street is Hong Kong's most popular night market.there are lots of interesting thing to browse,like watches, pens, lighters, sunglasses, CDs, cassettes, electronic gadgets, hardware and luggage, etc. Farther along Temple Street, beyond the flyover and near the Tin Hau Temple, there are fortune-tellers, palm readers and Chinese opera singers performing impromptu Chinese operas. It makes the night market become a fascinating "Street Theatre".

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The Bank Of China Tower
The Bank of China Tower, designed to be taller than the nearby Hong Kong Bank, is said to be a symbol of Chinese sovereignty for the preparation of July 1, 1997. Feng-Sui masters said it is a dagger pointing to the Hong Kong Governor's residence. Despite these hearsay, Bank of China has already started officially issuing legal tender and is the third notes issuing bank in Hong Kong. The significant role of China in Hong Kong's economy is already indisputable.

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Victoria Harbor
Like many colorful stars shining in the night sky over the Victoria Harbor, the city light is one of the most amazing sceneries of Hong Kong. But with land reclamation continuing on both sides, the harbor is getting narrower and narrower. Before the day we can physically walk over to the other side, the ferry operators have already complained about the higher risk because of the narrow channel.

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Victoria Peak
Although most tourists come to Hong Kong Island for the mind-boggling shopping and the abundance of first-rate restaurants, there are a few other things you won't want to miss. Visit Victoria Peak for its fabulous real estate, extensive shopping mall, and dramatic tram ride but most of all, for its incomparable view.


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