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	Walled villages of Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A walled village (圍村) is a kind of tradional building which is completely surrounded by thick defensive walls, protecting the residents from the attack of wild animals and enemies.
		Walled villages can be found in mainland China and Hong Kong.
		Characterized by its magnificent moat and landscape setting, the walled village is the core of the Liu clan, of which ancestors came originally from Fujian during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walled_villages_of_Hong_Kong (555 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kowloon Walled City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was China's tiny enclave in the middle of British Hong Kong for over decades and it had a colorful existence until it was finally torn down in 1993.
		The Walled City (known as Kowloon then) was originally a single fort built in the mid-1800s on the site of an earlier 17th century watchpost on the Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong.
		After the ceding of Hong Kong Island to Britain in 1842 (Treaty of Nanjing), Qing (Chinese) authorities felt it necessary for them to establish a military-cum-administrative post to rule the area and to check further British influence in the area.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kowloon-Walled-City (2225 words)

	Hong Kong : Hotels , Travel Information guide / Culture
		At first glance, Hong Kong appears to be all glass-covered skyscrapers, modern urban amenities and an ever-growing yuppie culture that is the legacy of British colonial rule.
		These are actually the walled villages that the Hakka people built to protect themselves from the marauding pirates that plundered the coasts of Hong Kong in the 17th century.
		Hong Kong's doubled boiled soups with herbs are the perfect example of food feng shui, as they are believed to be able to help the body regain its 'proper balance' after childbirth or an illness as well as to promote good health generally.
	www.hong-kong-hotels.ws /culture.html (1328 words)

	Hong Kong - Wikitravel
		Hong Kong Island — The Island is Hong Kong's urban center, the heart of the city where everything happens.
		Hong Kong International Airport is the third busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic in Asia (after Tokyo Haneda and Tokyo Narita) and the second busiest airport in terms of cargo traffic in the world (after Memphis in USA).
		Hong Kong is not all skyscrapers, and it's worthwhile to go to the countryside, including the country parks (http://parks.afcd.gov.hk/newparks/eng/country/index.htm) and marine parks (http://parks.afcd.gov.hk/newmarine/eng/index.htm).
	wikitravel.org /en/Hong_Kong (6882 words)

	USATODAY.com - Experience the activity of Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hong Kong is a place of contrasts — geographically, socially and economically.
		Although the popular image of Hong Kong is a place where every square inch of land is crammed with high-rise apartments and office buildings, in reality, 38% of all land in Hong Kong is parkland or undeveloped greenery.
		Hong Kong Park is a rare exception, offering a magnificent aviary, a children's playground, ponds, waterfalls, a small amphitheater and an open-air restaurant.
	usatoday.com /travel/destinations/cityguides/hongkong/worthdoing.htm (1571 words)

	Hong Kong's magic - The Washington Times: Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HONG KONG — "You drink," said the old man as he tore the marble-size gall bladder from a snake's underbelly and drained the fl bile into a small dish before mixing it with a bit of rice wine and a few drops of snake blood.
		Urban Hong Kong is an intoxicating dose of smells, sights and sounds that attack the senses and leave a visitor stunned like a deer in the headlights of an oncoming car.
		Though Hong Kong is known around the world as an urban metropolis of skyscrapers, neon signs and martial-arts stars, more than three-fourths of its territory is undeveloped land, while 40 percent of the region is divided into 23 country parks.
	washingtontimes.com /functions/print.php?StoryID=20040312-090141-3321r (2250 words)

	World InfoZone - Hong Kong Information - Page 1
		Hong Kong is an island at the mouth of the Pearl River, on the south eastern coast of China and just south of the Tropic of Cancer.
		Hong Kong territory consists of Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula on the mainland opposite Hong Kong Island, the New Territories (365 square miles of the mainland) and the Outlying Islands.
		Walled villages and ancestral halls, along with ancient temples are preserved in the New Territories.
	www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=HongKong (827 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Fragrant Hong Kong harbor is a steal \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		When I traveled to Hong Kong in December, fear of SARS hadn't disappeared — the lobby of the Newton Hotel where I stayed still had a hand-sanitizing machine, and some people still covered their faces with handkerchiefs and surgical masks.
		Hong Kong's native cuisine is Cantonese — abundant in seafood, crisp vegetables and steamed buns filled with sweet pork.
		Hong Kong is famous for dim sum, a meal consisting of a variety of savory tidbits ordered a plate at a time and eaten in late morning and afternoon.
	deseretnews.com /dn/print/1,1442,595046297,00.html (1355 words)

	Universe Magazine - Hong Kong
		In coming to Hong Kong, they surrendered much of their previous identities along with their passports to the Immigration Department at the border crossing, and what has emerged in the transplantation are new cultural formations: fragments of the old, hybrids with the new, and hyphenations that separate as well as connect.
		Indeed, Hong Kong’s pea blossom icon identified on the global level as an orchid (see Newt Gingrich’s perception of the relationship between China and Hong Kong as a gorilla holding an orchid in its hand) is not an orchid at all.
		Hong Kongers have always worn two faces simultaneously, one in public for the public, and the other also public but waiting for the next public; one is presented to the British colonizers and their various representations, and the other to relatives and proven friends.
	www.wsu.edu /NIS/Universe/HongAb.html (2084 words)

	Travel Magazine - Travelworld International Magazine
		Hong Kong Museum of History - Opening in 2001; in new quarters at 100 Chatham Road South in Kowloon, next to the Science Museum, the reconfigured Museum of History opens its permanent exhibition in 2001.
		Hong Kong Museum of Art - On the Tsimshatsu waterfront of Kowloon, the Museum of Art displays hundreds of oil paintings, drawings, etchings and lithographs of old Hong Kong in seven galleries.
		Hong Kong Space Museum - One of the city's most popular museums, the Space Museum includes exhibits on ancient astronomical history, science fiction, early rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and space probes, manned space flight, the space shuttle, a space station and future space programs.
	www.travelworldmagazine.com /contributors/detail.php?ArticleID=119 (1248 words)

	Walled villages of Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Walled villages can be found in China and Hong Kong.
		Kat Hing Wai is completely surrounded by 18-foot-thick walls which protected the residents against bandits, rival clans, and wild tigers.
		Fanling Wai is the centre of the Pang clan who arrived Hong Kong from Guangxi province late in the Song Dynasty.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/walled_villages_of_hong_kong (432 words)

	Wild Cows and Ghost Towns: Hiking Hong Kong -- ThingsAsian Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A Hong Kong resident for 25 years, Etherington navigates the labyrinthine trails of Sai Kung as effortlessly as local taxi drivers negotiate the maze-like streets of Kowloon and Central.
		Hong Kong is an international city with a large and diverse expatriate community, which allows Etherington to cater to a wide variety of clients.
		The villagers continued to plant their rice terraces, an age-old way of life that their sons and daughters wanted no part of.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.2827.html (3213 words)

	Hong Kong, China - PopularCities.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hong Kong Island is a mosaic of thrilling experiences, memorable adventures, and pure serenity.
		Hong Kong is so fascinating because of the way its local culture and heritage are woven into the fabric of everyday life.
		Hong Kong Museum of History Kowloon Park, Tsim Sha Tsui, 2367-1124 A historical overview of the city, focusing on pirates, wars, economic growth and hardships.
	www.popularcities.com /cityguides/12036.htm (1454 words)

	International Travel News: In search of Hong Kong's past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Reminders of Hong Kong's past are often difficult to find except preserved in its museums or tucked away in out-of-the-way nooks and crannies of Hong Kong Island or Kowloon.
		Behind a green brick wall facade decorated with ceramic figurines are three courtyards surrounded by 11 rooms--an indication of the importance of this imperial official.
		On a wall in one of the rooms hang portraits of Man Chung-luen, wives numbers one and two, and sons numbers one and two as well.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3648/is_10_29/ai_n7638005 (1203 words)

	Hong Kong Tours, Cruises, and Travel
		A ten minute-walk away from Central is the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, a small, free zoo with reptiles, primates, a jaguar, and rare and endangered birds and plants.
		Above all, Hong Kong is known for its dim sum, delicately prepared morsels of Cantonese cuisine served from a neverending procession of carts and eaten with tea.
		Hong Kong also has a staggering range of international restaurants serving cuisines from all over the world.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /HongKong/hongkong-travel.html (1842 words)

	Hong Kong on sale
		HONG KONG -- "Your hands are like clouds," said tai chi master William Ng.
		Hong Kong is pure energy, an epicenter of east meets west.
		When I traveled to Hong Kong in December, fear of SARS hadn't disappeared -- the lobby of the Newton Hotel where I stayed still had a hand-sanitizing machine, and some people still covered their faces with handkerchiefs and surgical masks.
	www.freep.com /features/travel/hong22_20040222.htm (1385 words)

	Online NewsHour: Hong Kong Handover -- June 16, 1997
		The Tang clan, Hong Kong’s oldest, is a group of extended families who trace their lineage back nearly a thousand years to the area’s original inhabitants.
		Many of the original villages are still standing, though clan members are now vastly outnumbered by those who fled to Hong Kong from Communist China and were rehoused in vast estates that now dot the territories.
		Tang’s Hutong, who traces his ancestry in Hong Kong back 27 generations, is chairman of the Celebration Committee in one of the biggest towns close to the border.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/june97/hongkong_6-16.html (928 words)

	Chicago Sun-Times: HONG KONG
		Hong Kong's native cuisine is Cantonese -- abundant in seafood, crisp vegetables and steamed buns filled with sweet pork.
		My second morning started with a metro ride to the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and the tai chi class, followed by a day of sightseeing with Anat Givon, an Associated Press staff photographer who lives in the city.
		But the ride was a highlight of the trip, a storybook chug past a floating village of fishermen chattering on cell phones as they repaired buoys and freed tangled fishing lines, with family dogs standing watch over the rickety housekeeping inside.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_200402/ai_n12532617 (1452 words)

	Hong Kong Sights and Activities Overview
		While Hong Kong has always lived and breathed commerce, it can be easy to forget that most of Hong Kong has nothing to do with business or skyscrapers: three-quarters of it is actually rural land.
		Hong Kong Island is where the action is, from high finance to nightlife to luxury shopping.
		You'll also be able to sneak glimpses of traditional rural life in the restored walled villages and ancestral clan halls scattered throughout the area.
	www.nytimes.com /fodors/fdrs_74_sigh_over.html (289 words)

	Hong Kong: Side Trips : The New Territories : Kam Tin Walled Village \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A handful of these walled villages still exist today and are still inhabited by the Hakkas.
		Built in the 1600s, the village is completely surrounded by 5.5m-thick (18 ft.) walls, which provided protection against bandits, rival clans, and wild tigers; there is only one narrow entrance.
		Although the wall and moat surrounding Kam Tin remains impressive, a visit here is worthwhile only if you combine it with a trip to Sam Tung Uk Museum.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/hongkong/0078034528.html (600 words)

	DiscoverHongKong - Touring Around - Hong Kong Walks
		A villager told him it was called Sha Tin and since then the name has been used to describe the entire area.
		His temple in Sha Tin was first established by the villagers of Tin Sam more than 100 years ago after he defended the area from flood, and miraculously ended a great plague.
		While the village is usually called Tsang Tai Uk (Big House of the Tsang Clan), its formal name is Shan Ha Wai (Walled Village at the Mountain Foot).
	www.discoverhongkong.com /eng/touring/hkwalks/ta_walk_walk4.jhtml (1101 words)

	Hong Kong Travel Guide \| LukeTravels.com
		If your stay in Hong Kong is limited to only a day or few hours, there are still many sights you can experience.
		Named after a British battleship, this southern "capital" of Hong Kong Island is a natural escapade from the metropolis.
		KAM TIN WALLED VILLAGE: Built 700 years ago by the Tang clan, the original walls remain standing with its female villagers still dressed in traditional costumes for daily activities in modern Hong Kong.
	www.luketravels.com /hong-kong/guide-c.htm (1089 words)

	University of Florida Hong Kong - China Summer Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		View of Hong Kong financial district from the botanical gardens adjacent to the YWCA Garden View International House (left); UF students and faculty enjoy historically and architecturally significant accommodations at a renovated Qing Dynasty courtyard house in Beijing (right).
		The work of the 2004 Hong Kong – China Program design studio began with an examination of Hong Kong extremes: the very small and the very large as manifest in the traditional little red street-shrine and the urban phenomenon of the podium - a big-box, multi-level housing base that incorporates every urban amenity imaginable.
		While aiming to amplify the promise of the podium as a dynamic and functional response to changing lifestyles, the work questions the disparities between a life conducted indoors in one developer’s hyper-mall and a life conducted in the organic and free space of street and square.
	uf-china.dcp.ufl.edu (3460 words)

	Hong Kong - Travel Guide \| Footprint Guides
		Look at the elegant sharp angles of the Bank of China building, or the high-tech iconic HSBC in Central, then realize that their exact location was plotted with due consideration to keeping the spirits and dragons happy.
		Somehow this spiritual side of Hong Kong neutralizes some of its commercial excesses and is a great leveller.
		The traditional walled villages in the New Territories reveal Hong Kong’s history of clan structure, while wandering around Sai Kung’s vast expanse of hills and reservoirs will make you forget that just the previous day you were haggling for clothes in Tsim Sha Tsui.
	www.footprintguides.com /Hong-Kong (322 words)

	About Joel... 조엘에 대하여...: Hong Kong Day 5: "Back to exploring Kowloon"
		Reason I wish I were still in Hong Kong 5: The novel seems much more interesting and photo worthy than my everyday life.
		Difference between Korea and Hong Kong 5: The most obvious one is that none of the Chinese food I ate was spicy.
		The ones of the anti-violence campaign were especially interesting to me. Hong Kong had several campaigns going to stop smoking, prevent mosquitoes, reduce traffic accidents, and stop violence in school.
	aboutjoel.com /archives/000229.html (1130 words)

	General Tours - PriceBuster Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hong Kong was officially part of the British Empire following the Opium Wars of the 1860's until sovereignty was returned to China in 1997.
		Discover Old Hong Kong on this tour visiting stately homes, temples and villages of the 18th century, including the walled village of Sam Tang Uk, the traditional Chinese Tai Po Market and the Liu Man Shek Tong ancestral hall.
		Enrich the harmony of your home or workspace from what you learn during a lecture about this famous ancient system which is also a powerful force in the architecture of Hong Kong.
	www.generaltours.com /display_tour.cgi?tour_seq=832 (705 words)

	\|\| Kam Tin Walled Village \|\|
		Kam Tin Walled Village is the grandest of the six villages.
		Built about 500 years ago, it is the original 10th-century settlement of the Tang clan.
		The walled village has a fascinating history as a stronghold against rival clans and wandering bands of pirates.
	cross-pacific.com /hk/27.htm (77 words)

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