DK Travel : Hong Kong : Places of interest

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Lion Rock

One of the best places to view this fascinating natural landmark is, conveniently, from outside Wong Tai Sin temple. Find the open area near the fortune tellers’ stalls where you can look straight up at what from this angle resembles the grizzled head of a male lion. Those feeling energetic may be tempted to scale its heights. Take lots of water, and be warned – the top section is not for the faint-hearted.
Lions Nature Education Centre

The Lions Nature Education Centre is actually much more fun than it sounds. There are fruit orchards, an arboretum, rock gardens and, best of all, an insectarium. Big brothers will find plenty of interesting creepy-crawlies with which to scare little sisters.
Lo Wu Commercial City

Right by the border station, this large mall is the best and most convenient place to shop in Shenzhen. Inside its teeming five stories are virtually all the consumer goods you could ever desire, in exhaustive and exhausting quantities. The brands are either Chinese (often of solid build) or fake Western (take your chances). Countless stalls sell all manner of clothes, footwear, jewellery, watches, accessories and electronic goods. A huge textiles market is on the fifth floor. For real bargains try to haggle down to half the original asking price.
Lockhart Road

Made famous in Richard Mason’s novelTheWorld of Suzy Wong , Wan Chai’s sinful strip is these days an odd blend of girlie bars with dodderyMamasans who saw action during the Vietnam War and will rob you blind as soon as look at you; down-at-heel discos; mock-British pubs; and super-trendy bars and restaurants. The road is almost always being dug up, adding to the hubbub.
Macau Jockey Club

A bit more down-at-heel than its high-tech, cashed-up Hong Kong counterpart.
Man Mo Temple

The gloomy red and gold interior of the Man Mo Temple, dating back to the 1840s, is always thick with sandlewood smoke from the giant incense spirals hanging overhead, which take a couple of weeks to burn through. The temple is dedicated to two deities, Man (the god of literature) and Mo (the god of war). Some of the scenes from the film version of Richard Mason’s The World of Suzy Wong were filmed here.

Man Mo Temple
Mandarin Oriental Casino

The more genteel side of gambling. Well-dressed, urbane punters sip martinis.
Minsk World

The ironies come thick and fast aboard this former Soviet aircraft carrier, selling American hot dogs from its flight deck. It’s a hugely popular destination for Chinese tourists, though few Westerners visit. Here you can thrill at footage of missiles exploding in fireballs of increasing magnitude set against a spaghetti western soundtrack; behold stuffed Russian space dog Strelka; and applaud a baffling Russian cabaret act.
Mission Hills Golf Club

Many Hong Kong executives come across the border to play at this five-star, 90-hole golf club. Alternatively, you can play tennis on one of the resort’s 51 courts.
Museum of Art

You may well be fed up with museums by this point. If not, here you’ll find oil paintings, etchings, lithographs and calligraphy. One display features pottery shards and suchlike from southern China dating back to Neolithic times, and there is also a fine collection of elegant porcelain from various Chinese dynasties.