To wrap up the West Kowloon Promenade & Culture District visit to the  2009 Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture following are a few shots of what’s close by in the area of the West Kowloon Harbour – the starting point for one of the world’s busiest ports.

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Though I’m not sure I understand it all, the “2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture” aims to “help envision a new model metropolis that uses social capital as the main driving force”. It’s actually the first large-scale cultural exhibition taking place in the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade & Cultural District, [...]

Hong Kong is working hard at developing the Victoria Harbour as a prime tourist and cultural attraction. The local government is investing around 3 billion US$ into redefining West Kowloon as a culture hub, in a 4-5 years project.
 
Here’s a bit from the recent news about the plans for the area from  Hong Kong’s West [...]

Elements shopping mall, located in the Kowloon MTR station in western Kowloon just upstairs from Airport Express going towards the airport, can compete for Hong Kong’s grandest. Going through the shopping mall, which I heard nothing about before arriving there, I was very pleasantly surprised. I’ve seen some nice malls in Hong Kong, some of [...]

Set just next to Hong Kong’s tallest mountain, overlooking the new territories as far as Shenzhen are the Kadoorie Farm & Botanical Gardens. It’s a gorgeous little spot and it’s very well done, with beautiful gardens, a small animal collection to get the kids excited and a terrific guided bus tour that takes you all [...]

Kadoorie Farms & Botanical Gardens is a magical spot up in the northern territories of Hong Kong dedicating a huge area for botanical gardens. Here’s from Wikipedia:
Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (Chinese: 嘉道理農場暨植物園), formerly known as Kadoorie Experimental and Extension Farm (嘉道理試驗及推廣農場), or shortly Kadoorie Farm (嘉道理農場) is a farm originally set up for aiding [...]

Hong Kong has some spectacular nature. Every time I go hiking in Hong Kong it just takes my breath away. This one, Pat Sing Leng Country Park, north-east of Hong Kong’s New Territories, is one of the tougher ones I’ve done. Rated difficulty 4 and going for 12.5km across a range of mountain tops, I [...]

A Qing dynasty style garden was put in place to replace one of Hong Kong’s worst urban atrocities, and what a lovely little place that is. Pavilions, pagodas, gardens, streams, ponds and small waterfalls, the little park is a hidden gem. A stroll in the park during evening time is especially magical…

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