Consisting primarily of Hong Kong island, Lantau Island, Kowloon Peninsula, and the New Territories, Hongkong is also home to some 260 smaller islands. Aside from its diverse archipelago landscape. Hong Kong is famed for its large architectural ambitions: it currently has the world’s greatest number of skyscrapers, some 6,383 in total. Given population pressures, the city has more people living or working above the 14th floor than any other on earth, making it the most vertical city in the world. Needless to say, it also has one of the most awesome skylines in the world, and architectural wonders abound at every turn. Impressive structrues of note include I.M. Pei’s Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong International Airport, and Tsing Ma (one of the world’s largest suspensions bridges). Among many others
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Spectacular Views of Hong Kong from the Star Ferry in Victoria Harbor
Hotel LKF
Sparkling vibrance, immaculate style
Discover Jewel in the heart of the hip and vibrant Lan Kwai Fong district. The chic Hotel LKF by Rhombus is an ideal choice for discerning travelers seeking a stylish and calm sanctuary.
The deluxe boutique hotel charms travelers with its five-star personalized service, stylish design, and spacious guest rooms and suites. Each room is decorated with a dramatic combination of modern and classical European features, and is replace with luxe details like goose down pillows and sunken bathtubs. Its new Business Centre and Fitness Centre on the lobby level offer 24 hour service to guests.
Honored with prestigious awards, Azure Restaurant Slash Bar, on the 29th and 30th floors of the hotel, is a sophisticated place to see and be seen. Mix and mingle with international jesetters and local trensetters while taking in the sweeping 270-degree views of the skyline and enjoying innovative cuisine and fashionable coctails.
Tourist Attraction
Outdoor and Cultural enthusiasts alike are well looked after in Hong Kong. Get an overview of the city and enjoy breathtaking vistas by taking a tram ride up Victoria Peak on Hongkong Island. If you like heights, you’ll also appreciate a turn on the Nong Ping 360-a glass-bottom cable car offering a bird’s-eye view of Lantau Island. While you’re on Lantau, stop in at the world’s tallest, outdoor, seated Buddha statue, crafted from bronze and set atop the Nong Ping Plateau.
It’s a little-known fact that Hong Kong waters are home to one of the world’s two species of pin dolphin (the other inhabits the Amazon). These endangered animals roam the Pearl River Delta, dodging cargo ships and jetfoils. While they can sometimes be spied from an ordinary ferry ride, the best way to guarantee a sighting is to sign up for a trip with Hong Kong Dolphinwatch, a conservation organization dedicated to protecting the cetaceans through educational trips departing North Lantau.
Step back in time at the popular Hong Kong Heritage Museum in Sha Tin New Town, one of Hong Kong’s most interesting museums. In addition to a huge collection of historical artifacts, the museum is home to an impressive array of antique toys and comics, guranteed to keep the kids entertained Stargazers will not want to miss a visit to Hong Kong’s only planetarium, adjoining the educational Hong Kong Space Museum. The egg shaped buildings is hard to miss, set right on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. Or, rub shoulders with the rich and famous at the newly renovated Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, housing wax reproductions of some 1.000 celebrities, sports stars, an worid leaders.
Rediscover Your Source
Leave the hectic pace of city life behind as you step through the Moon Gate into a haven of serenity. Begin by enjoying the delights of the sauna, steam room and Oriental hot tub. Continue your voyage with one of the 60 holistic treatment designed to restore peace and harmony. Then eomplete your journey to wellness with a cup of selected Chinese Five Elements tea at the tranquil Dream Room.
A Sanctuary for the Senses
In Chinese, Chuan means following water. As the source of life, water represents the re-birth and re-balancing of our whole being. Based on the ideology of traditional Chines Medicine, we aim to promote wellness through tailor-made treatments, fitness and nutrition.
The Power of Five Elements
Our Chuan Spa signature treatments draw on the power of Wu Xing – the Five Elements of woods, fire, earth, metal dan water. Spending a moment to complete a simple Five Elements questionnaires ensures your customised treatment addresses the imbalances of your life elements.
In Perfect Harmony
Signature chuan spa packages offer specially created combinations of rejuvenating therapies to ensure your body, mind and soul are perfectly balanced.
Langham Palce, Mongko, Hong Kong , Level 41, 555 Shanghai Street, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel. (852) 3552 3510 www.chuanspa.com
Dining & Night Life
Reputed to be the culinary capital of Asia, Hong Kong showcases cuisine that is an exotic fusion of Eastern and Western flavors. Its cultural blend, proximity to mainland China, and reputation for quality have made Hong Kong a gourmet paradise, with over 9,000 restaurants offering almost every cuisine under the sun.
Many of the restaurants and bars in Central offer a true Hong Kong experience. Budget eateries featuring local snacks can be found along Jardine’s Bazaar, Tang Lung, and Matherson Streets, while bars, sushi parlors, and a number of fine-dining establishment line Sunning Road Head to Times Square for alfesco beers as the sun sets, then enjoy a meal in one of the many cozy restaurants that pepper surrounding Lee Theatre Plaza, Percival Street, and Paterson Street in Causeway Bay.
Lan Kwai Fong is one of the most popular places for a relaxed meal followed by a big night out on Hong Kong Island. Here you can find specialities from arround the globe, including Middle Eastern, Italian, Mexican, French, and American to name but a few. As an added bonus, many restaurants features alfesco dining areas, so you can enjoy your meal under the glow of the island’s skyscrapers.
Farther west around Staunton, Shelley Street, and Elgin Street. SoHo offers a mix of trendy bars and restaurants specializing in iternationals cuisine. Alternatively, for fresh seafood head to Sai Kung,Lamma Island and Lei Yue Mun. Pick your favorite seafood from the tanks at one of the restaurants and let the chefs take care of the rest. Th town of Stanley also offers a unique mix of lad-back eateries in a relaxed, seaside setting.
Shopping
Hong Kong is a great place to indulge in retail therapy, given that all godds other than alcohol and tobacco, are tax-free.
Central is famed for its luxury boutiques and sprawling shopping mails including The Landmark,The Galleria, Prince’s Building, Alexandra House, and the IFC mall. All ooze glamour, with designer shops and exclusive brand names in abundance. But Central still offers a number of bustling local markets where you can indulge in bargaining. Two parallel streets known as “The Lanes,” Li Yuen Street East and Li Yuen Street West, are a riot of stalls hawking everything from inexpensive clothing, watches, and costume jewelry to luggage and shoes.
It’s open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day.
Farther west towards Sheung Wan you’ll find a bustle of sidewalk hawkers on Central’s stepped “ladder” streets. The Western Market in Sheung Wan (at the corner of Connaught Road and Morrison Street) is a beautifully renovated Edwardian building filled with Chinese handicraft stores and fabric shops. The area around here is famous for tis small chinese-style shops selling dried seafood and medicinal herbs.
In Kowloon, be sure to stop by the Yuen Po Street Bird Garden. Even if you’re not in the market for a pet. It’s a great place to absorb the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong street life, and is constantly a hive of activity Simiarly, even if you don’t want to buy flowers, don’t miss a stop at the hong Kong flower market. Here, you’ll find an over whelming selection of colorful displays, exotic blossoms, and fengshui houseplants.
If fashion is your passion, then you’ll want to make a beeline to Cheung Sha Wan Road in Kowloon. Dubbed “Fashion Street” for the fact that it’s lined with hundreds of clothing sotes, the strip sells the latest gashions, at wholesale prices. Walk a bit further to Apliu Street where you’ll find stores selling brand new and second-hand electronics gear, also at bargain prices.
Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel
In A Complex Project lasting 19 months, all 665 guest rooms at the Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui have been refurbished, refreshed, and updated with elegant contemporary touches.
The refurbishment was carried out in phases, floor by floor, to avoid inconvenienceing guests and staff. The rooms, many of which offer breathtaking views of Vicoria Harbour, now have new wallpaper, carpets, curtains, upholstery, and artworks, all carefully chosen in a palette of earth tones to create a warm, welcoming ambience.
As part of the project, The Continental Club, which takes up the whole of the 17h and 18th floors of the hotel, was completely overhauled. Enlarged and refurbished, the Continental Club Lunge now boasts an extra meeting room for business travelers. The club’s luxurious suites have likewise been upgraded, with more efficient and convenient room layout and mod cons such as iHome docking devices for iPhones, iPads, and iPods.
“We’re excited to be part of the progress and dynamism of Canton Road as lifestyle and fashion hub-the ‘Rodeo Drive’ of Hong Kong,” says area GM, Hong Kong. “And we’re located within Harbour City shopping mall, Hong Kong’s largest, busiest mall. So with a more contemporary product added to our long-standing reputation for warm and impeccable Asian hospitality, the Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel is uniquely positioned to gain an even stronger foothold in the market as the preffered hotel of international travelers to Hong Kong.”
Harbour city, Kowloon, Hongkong; 852/2113-0088; marcopolohotels.com
On The Water
Avenue of Stars, Victoria Harbour
VICTORIA HARBOUR IS ONE of the world’s busiest and most impressive natural harbors, bustling with counteless container vessels, junks, sampans, and pleasre craft.
Cruises set sail from piers on either side of Victoria Harbour at all times of th day. One of the best times to take to the water is during the nightly ‘A Symphony of Lights’ multimedia spectacular that includes 44 buildings. The show is an all-around vision of colored lights, laser beams, and searchinglights perfoming a stunning, unfrogettable spectacle synchronized to music and narration. There are five main themes (Awakening, Energy, Heritage, Partnership and Celebration), and show kick off at 8 p.m. nightly.
The best places to watch the spectacle are from a boat along the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront between the Avenue of Stars, or from the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on the waterfront promenade outside the Golden Bauhinia Square in Wan Chai.
Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees
A vibrant and refreshing experience
The Ultra-Creative Design at the Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees in Hong Kong’s Kowloon District will delight from the moment you pass through its door. The lobby boasts an innovative optical illusion designed to dazzle you into feeling as though you are inside Italy’s Leasing Toer of Pisa. Unique desighn twists can also be found in the Café 8 Degrees, the Pool Bar, in elevators, and tucked away throughout the building.
These clever, artistic flourishes are balanced by a down-to-basics design in 702 charming and comfortable earth-toned rooms and suites that offer modern amenities and views of the city or the distinctively shaped outdoor swimming pol. Guests staying on the three exectuive floors have access to the harbour Club Lounge, featuring concierge services and complimentary breakfast, afternoon tea, and evening refreshments. For long-staying guests, over 100 units are dedicated to serve extended needs with kitchenettes in all suite categories.
Massage and facial services, a fitness center, international dining, and indoor and outdoor function spaces ensure both business and leisure travelers will be catered to. Guests will alos enjoy easy access to Kowloon attractions via the hotel’s complimentary shuttle service, which travels to and from the MTR station, bustling Tsim Sha Tsui, and Airport Express Kowloon Station.
199 Kowllon City Road, Tokwawan, Kowloon, Hong Kong; 852/2126-1988; harbour-plaza.com/hp8d
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