Hong Kong Museum Of Art

Hong Kong Museum Of Art

If you want to see classical Chinese art and calligraphy, you have come to the right place. Apart from a solid collection of classical work, the highlight of Hong Kong’s Museum of Art is the collection of old photographs and prints from the Colonial era.

Address: 10 Salisbury Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

Phone: +852 2721 0116

Internet: www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Arts

Hong Kong Museum Of History

This museum looks back in time. Go through the eight rooms that range from prehistoric times to the hand-over to China in 1997. Here you can see everything fromtraditional Chinese clothes and an old reconstructed street from 1881, to toys from the 1970s.

Address: 100 Chatham Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

Phone: +852 2724 9024

Internet: www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/History

Victoria Peak

Victoria Peak is an absolute must for visitors to Hong Kong – ascend 522 metres by tram and look out over the entire city – just make sure that it is not a foggy day. Victoria Peak has always been an area for the propertied classes, and nowadays this also means that Hong Kong’s best promenade is to be found in the leafy, quiet area around the peak station.

Address: Peak Tower, Peak Road, Hong Kong

Opening hours: The tram leaves every ten minutes and runs between 7.00 and midnight.

Internet: www.thepeak.com.hk

More Info: Take the tram from Garden Road or Cotton Tree Drive.

Hong Kong Zoological And Botanical Gardens

Here you will nd hundreds of di erent species of birds and exotic plants in a beautiful setting lled with fountains and sculptures. West of Garden Road, which runs straight through the gardens, you will nd the zoo with an impressive collection of endangered species.

Address: Albany Rd, Hong Kong

Opening hours: Park 6.00–22.00. Zoo 7.00–19.00. Plant house 9.00-16.30.

Phone: +852 2530 0154

Internet: www.lcsd.gov.hk/parks/hkzbg More Info: Bus 3B, 12, 40

Pak Tai Temple

This Taoist temple was built in the 1860's in honour of Pak Tai, something as contradictory as a peace-keeping god of war. Look into one of the side rooms where old men are seated building small paper and bamboo models of everything that they want to carry with them in the afterlife.

Address: Lung On Rd, at Queen’s Rd East, Hong Kong