Hong Kong Travel Guide

Victoria Park sits at 1 Hing Fat Street in Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island, China. Covering about 19 hectares, it was begun in 1955 and opened in October 1957 as the largest urban park on the island, named for the statue of Queen Victoria at its south gate. Its sporting facilities are the most complete in Hong Kong: a 3,000-seat tennis centre court, 13 tennis courts, six hard-surface football pitches, basketball courts, lawn bowls, a swimming pool and jogging trails, while the central lawn and amphitheatre host morning exercise and festivals. The park is also home to Hong Kong’s largest Lunar New Year flower market, and every Sunday noon its amphitheatre stages the televised City Forum—an open political debate that has earned the park the nickname “Hong Kong’s Hyde Park”. Open around the clock and free of charge, it lies one step from the Causeway Bay shopping district: a calm green heart in the middle of the city and the best place to feel the rhythm of local Hong Kong life.

Repulse Bay lies in Southern District, Hong Kong, China, one of the city's most famous crescent beaches — fine sand, clear water, green hills behind and the South China Sea ahead. By the shore stand the Tin Hau and Kwun Yum statues of the seaside park, a 'Longevity Bridge' and the twelve zodiac stones; the colonial-elegant The Repulse Bay (former Repulse Bay Hotel) adds old-world grace. A local summer retreat and a visitor's spot for South China Sea sunsets, beach cafés and the seafront promenade, it is hailed as 'the world's most beautiful bay.'

Diamond Hill is a residential area in eastern Kowloon, Hong Kong, known for the Chi Lin Nunnery and Nan Lian Garden — two classical garden complexes that make it a serene cultural haven amid the urban bustle. The Chi Lin Nunnery is the most famous — a Tang Dynasty-style wooden Buddhist complex with majestic halls, tranquil courtyards and exquisite timber architecture, known as "a Tang pure land in the city." The adjacent Nan Lian Garden is a classical Tang-style garden with pavilions, ponds, ancient trees and rare rocks, complementing the nunnery — a rare serene retreat in urban Hong Kong. Both are free, offering a superb place to experience traditional Chinese architecture and garden culture and find tranquility amid the busy city.