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KOWLOON

Most tourists stay in Tsimshatsui (pronounced Jim Sa Joy) at one of the many hotels near Nathan Road, a short walk from the Star Ferry. Within 100 yards in any direction from the hotel lobbies, tourists can find most of what they came for. Storefront signs in English and Chinese stretch nearly across the streets.

A walk or bus ride up Nathan Road brings you to Yaumatei, then Mongkok, and Shamshuipo. If you are looking for a hard to find object either electronic, mechanical, computer or just plain clothing, you will find them between Mongkok and Shamshuipo. A major portion of Kowloon’s three million people settled there during the last few decades.

A nice walk begins at the concrete "boardwalk" at the Kowloon side of the Star Ferry and passes the Space Museum and leads to shops in the New World Centre.

 

NEW TERRITORIES

Still called the New Territories, it is made up of several industrial cities and still has some old villages and farms. You can ride an hour on the # 70 bus from the Jordan Road Ferry Terminus through Yaumatei, Mongkok, Lai Chi Kok and along Castle Peak Road to the town of Yuen Long. Here a # 76K bus will take 15 minutes to arrive at Lok Ma Chau. Take the same bus again, which runs every 15 minutes, to Sheung Shui and change for a # 70 for the hour and ten-minute ride through Fanling, Taipo and past Chinese University to Kowloon. You can take the East Rail Line (MTR) train to Sheung Shui via Chinese University and Shatin.  Shatin is a city within a city of more than one million people with good restaurants and the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery, which actually has 12,800 Buddhas and is located on a mountaintop, 486 steps up.