Hong Kong: The City of Dreams
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Nury Vittachi. Hong Kong: The City of Dreams
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HONG KONG
THE CITY OF DREAMS
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For the visitor to Hong Kong, the Zen-like adage that the journey is the destination and the destination is the journey is never more true than in this city, where you have a dazzling choice of funky and fun ways to get around. While many of the classic old buildings have been replaced by soulless towers, there thankfully has never been any need to replace the old transport systems (other than the sedan-chairs and rickshaws, which now exist only for fun). So the old Star Ferry still chugs across the harbour as it has done for more than 100 years, since it was started as a tiny boat service by a moon-lighting Indian chef from a Kowloon hotel. The funicular railway known as the Peak Tram still takes the same route up the mountain as it has always done, and you still lean back in your seat at an unnatural, dentist-chair angle as you are dragged up the slope by a thick metal cable. And the trolley-style streetcars that trundle along the flat parts of the island still move at a speed barely faster than walking, and cost so little that you think you have slipped back in time.
All types of ships—from oceanliners to the venerable Star Ferry—ply Hong Kong’s busy harbour.
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