Hong Kong travel guides & articles
All 8 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Hong Kong — newest first.
Tours & tickets
Victoria Peak Without the Tram Queue in Hong Kong
You can skip the Garden Road queue by bus, and the deck with the same view costs nothing. Above it runs a flat hour of walking that hardly anyone does.
Riding the Slow Ferries to Hong Kong's Outlying Islands
Fourteen working boat services, a HK$3 four-minute crossing and a 2am harbour run among them, and how to spend a week travelling Hong Kong at boat speed.
Leaving Hong Kong's Harbour for Lamma, Cheung Chau and Tai O
Three slow island days you can reach on an Octopus tap: the ferry pier to use, the walk, the seafood table, and which islands are worth a weekday off.
Walking the Ghost of Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong
Hong Kong pulled down the densest place it ever built in 1994. Enough is left to read it by: the walking route, the ticket queue and the temple.
Hong Kong's Last Tram of the Night and the Hours After It
The Ding Ding stops running between 23:15 and 00:30. Here is how to catch the last one across Hong Kong Island, and what is still open at 3am once it has gone.
Hong Kong's Typhoon Shelters: The Floating Communities and the Seafood That Feeds the City
A 2026 guide to the sheltered harbours where boat-dwelling families invented typhoon shelter crab, and the sampan kitchens, dai pai dong and island ferries where that world still feeds Hong Kong today.
Hong Kong's hiking trails and green space — the surprising wilderness beyond the skyscrapers, from Dragon's Back to the MacLehose Trail
Forty percent of Hong Kong is protected country park, and most of it starts a single MTR ride from your hotel — this is the wilderness the skyline hides, walked, not driven to.
Wok Hei and Green Awnings: Eating at Hong Kong's Vanishing Dai Pai Dong
The open-air stalls that built Hong Kong's street-food reputation are disappearing one licence at a time — here's where to still eat the real thing in 2026, what to order, and how to get a stool.