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An Island Apart: Cheung Chau, Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Cheung Chau is essentially two lumps of granite that have been weathered into hills and headlands, and are linked by a causeway of sand, gravel and so forth washed up by the sea. |
| | A centrally located banyan also has a shrine; it's reputed to be the source of Cheung Chau's prosperity, and arguments flared over plans to chop it down for a road widening scheme — a restaurant opposite was demolished instead. |
| | Elsewhere on southern Cheung Chau, scattered along pathways that switchback around and over headlands and low hills, are aging, colonial style houses that may have been rather grand in their day, with verandahs, fish ponds and sea views; but nowadays are mostly neglected, their gardens overgrown. |
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