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What a Beautiful Sight!
  If shopping is what you are looking for, have a go at the Stanley Market. Here you can find everything counterfeit from Gucci bags to real handmade silk pajamas. Hong Kong Harbor teems with vessels of all descriptions, ranging from sampans and junks to ocean liners and supertankers. The single runway of Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, which handles millions of passengers a year, extends into the harbor from Kowloon Peninsula. The peninsula and the narrow coastal strip of Hong Kong Island that faces it across the harbor are the colony's busiest and most crowded parts. About two-thirds of Hong Kong's people live in these two areas, which are linked by a cross-harbor tunnel and a sleek subway. Tsimshatsui, the southern end of Kowloon Peninsula, has luxurious hotels and shopping plazas. The waterfront of Hong Kong Island is dominated by high-rise office towers, apartment buildings, hotels, and free ways. Behind them are the narrow alleys, steep streets, and tenements of the island's older sections. New land is continually being reclaimed from the harbor. Parks and new towns in the New Territories, built on landfill, are linked to the urban areas by a railroad, new highways, and ferries. New roads have been constructed to provide access to China. Though Hong Kong is just south of the Tropic of Cancer, at about the same latitude as Hawaii and Calcutta, its climate is not tropical. During the winter, gusts of cold air come from Siberia. Hot, wet monsoons (tropical winds) blow up from the south in the summer. The average annual rainfall is 87.6 in. (222.5 cm.). English and Cantonese, the Chinese dialect of Canton, are official languages. | |
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