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Nathan road, bustling with animation at night, Kowloon. Hong-Kong, China

Hong-Kong, the "city of life", designed and run by architects and entrepreneurs from around the world is a dense city of many cultures where you can find anything at anytime. It is one of the most crowded and diverse cities everywhere. It also has one of the most stunning urban landscapes in the world, especially at night where it blazes like a great flower of light with petals of neon. You can appreciate the scenery by to strolling the waterfront promendade in TST, or having a bird eye's view from Victoria Peak, but the quintessential Hong-Kong experence remains to cross the harbor on one of the Star Ferries. Aboard those little crafts which have been ploughing this short route, back and forth without even having to turn, night and day, for more than a century, watching your fellow regular passengers on the wooden sets, you get the feeling to be at a place where modern empires are shifting.

36 Hours in Hong Kong
New York Times, April 8, 2007 - HONG KONG's newest tourist attraction, a 25-minute cable-car ride over the rugged green hills of Lantau Island, says a lot about this former British colony. Ngong Ping 360 (www.np360.com.hk) demonstrates Hong Kong's fascination with travel and technology; the skyrail's hilltop terminus, an ersatz Chinese village, plays to local passions for eating, shopping and taking pictures. From there, it is a short walk to the Po Lin monastery's 112-foot-tall bronze statue of Buddha seated on a lotus throne, an expression of Hong Kong's fundamental Chineseness. This crazy mix of commerce and culture — plus sublime modern architecture, great food, nonstop nightlife and amazing views — makes Hong Kong, 10 years after its transition from British to Chinese rule, still one of the world's biggest tourist draws.