Hong Kong, the city of the light

Hong Kong is an island, a world, multicolored and compact, where more than seven million persons live and are employed at an incomparable bustle. Hong Kong is a shop window, a symbol, where there have melted the purest concepts of this capitalist world created by the Europeans with the positive and familiar mentality transmitted by the Chinese along generations. In Hong Kong the history and the actuality have melted recreating the only society in East.

The rough history of Hong Kong, far from turning it in a gray and boring city, they have transformed it into a set of forceful beauty, the peak Victory and the bay of the same name, constant evocation of a colonial past that will finish in a few days, there are an important part of this image. Between the sea and the mountain, scarcely a few hundreds of meters so that the man develops his activities, so that the business blooms, to lodge the engine of this fantastic machine of gaining money into which the island has turned.

The extension of Hong Kong is only 1070 km2, in general the whole territory is very mountainous, with his biggest heights in the peak Taimo Shan, to 958 m high. Placed just to the south of the Tropic of Cancer, it has a subtropical climate, with moisture that in summer reach 90 %.

The Peak Victory, it is possible to rise in a tramcar that takes more than 100 years working. There is a tourists' enormous concentration, for being where there is had the best sight of the island of Hong Kong, the Bay and the peninsula of Kowloon. If it is raised in tramcar, it is possible to go down in bus, and vice versa.

The Bay Rejects, it is a beach with a certain delight, also full of the people, where there is a small temple Buddhist. A little more removed from the city Stanley Village is, with another small beach, opposite which there is a series of interesting buildings, almost all turned at present in restaurants, and a good flea market.

Port of the Fishermen of Aberdeen, it is where there has survived part of the seaworthy tradition of Hong Kong, and where numerous handmade fishing ships are, with the families living in them still, and the fish often stretched to dry. It is curious to observe the activity of the razor strops of fish, but to maraud a little between the boats it is necessary to mount in one.

Like any big city, it is necessary to walk up to where the forces come to us it.
On the Central district there center the commerce and the finance, his buildings yerguen proud, singular, materializing his excellence in a crystal sea, all of them communicated by a network of overpasses that they lodge to the most elitist shops. Those of the Bank of Shanghai and Hong Kong (designed by Norman Foster) and that of the Bank of China, are those who, due to his situation, manage to stand out better. Although the height record shows Centrally His Square, in the near Wanchai district. The whole Central district is the sacred temple of the money. Banks, offices and hotels, are alternated in the conquest of the space, while the most elegant women compete in the commerce of the low plants. The decisions that take in the offices of Hong Kong they will reverberate all over the world. There is a fierce struggle for approaching this golden brain that he inhabits in the Head office, what provokes a continuous increase of the prices of the offices. Every man, every meter, must produce, must be profitable. The work and the space are programmed for his maximum profitability. The increase of the price of the offices makes more profitable to knock down luxurious hotels of 20 � 30 apartments, to construct in his place offices, which to support open seas, even if the price of a room in Hong Kong is between the most expensive of the world, and the rooms demand grows to a constant rhythm.

In the island of Hong Kong, in addition to the Central district, financial head office, the district Wanchai is of big interest. In 3 parallel streets that constitute the same one, they give themselves appointment the most living contrasts of the island. Newly built luxurious towers serve as support to decrepit others, with the fallen paintings, which fronts stuffed with balconies, give an idea of the thickness of his population.

Zoological garden, a hundred of meters more above of Head office. And for the one that has time really, it is possible to dedicate one day or at least one in the morning for to know Ocean Park, in the way to Repulse Bay, which is one of the biggest water parks of Asia.

In Kowloon, the peninsula separated from Hong Kong by the bay, but joined under ground for 3 tunnels, the excellent tourist center, the city grows, is renewed, modernizes, to eyes seen. The Kowloon axis is famous Nathan Road, with thousands of shops established in her, it is the paradise of the buys, although the real opportunities will be better in the alleys framework that they salt to the sides of this one. A walk along Nathan Road allows to do to itself an idea of the shop window of life that is Hong Kong, thousands of persons are busy, buy, walk, eat. In sum, the madness of the small intermediary, which must sweat every day to scratch the dollars that allow him to approach the world of the really privileged ones.

Tempering Street. In the streets scarcely they circulate cars, leaving his place to patient elders who cover the street in search of the fresh air. Some restaurants have invaded the proper streets, and in the shops, far from the plastic and the neon, one feels the life in all his plenitude. In the butcher's shop, a line of newly killed pigs between the buyers hope to be distributed, the shops of spices and dried food happen in smells harmony, and to be happy it will be enough to enter a drugstore, and ask for some drug that should satisfy our desire. In the night, in the same street, there is improvised a flea market of products of all kinds and origin, for taste of the tourists who always swarm for the city, and a little further, removed with this move, the restaurants in the street serve at a really reasonable price seafood of the day. For that I thought that this market is not sufficient, it can approach the Market of Jade, in Kansu Street, only in the mornings, or the Market of Birds, in Hong Lok Street.

The island Lantau, it is another world. Along the highway that winds rising towards the mountains, the scenery does not evoke Hong Kong, but to the Mediterranean. Small towns of low houses, tiendecitas calm, that rest to the sun of the morning. And some cars that circulate rested. At the end of the highway, after a scenery suddenly of mountain, we meet the biggest Buddha of bronze of East Asia, that of the Monastery Po Lin. It is possible to eat in the proper temple, and to initiate the return to the city. In the island there are several temples more and accommodation a little more moderate than in Hong Kong.

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