Hong Kong! The legendary Chinese city of life and lights, where millionaires Shines shoulders with immigrants of fresh-off – boat, skyscrapers obscure the barracks and the division of class is dramatic as the neon lights up the whole. Located on the southernmost bank of more Chinese mainland and urgent against the sea of southern China, it is true anywhere else in the world like Hong Kong because Hong Kong is the World.It is better than Beijing and Bangkok, London and Las Vegas, New York and New Delhi, a dependency of the most densely populated (a continental mass of only 1000 square kilometers seven million residents), with a community of multinational lap? s? the World's largest. Indeed, a stroll around Tsim Sha Tsui (pronounced jimsawjoy), and the tourist trade in? s? City concentrated on the southern peninsula of Kowloon, reveals the entire human race within a radius of the block square: white people in small glasses pastels walking parallel with the majestic African clothes, the turbaned sheiks mercanteggianti with suppliers of short-tempered and Cantonese Hustlers dell'via the Hindu-angle that torture, well, everything. The core of the international community? s? TSTâ to be found on the road south of Nathan, that hum 24 hours a day not unlike a hive of third-world. The public roads is lit up with electronics, foggy with incense and Indian sounds of Arabic music with 200bpm. It is a warren of the world, a global party and everything is invited. Like a tailor from Pakistan deep puts it,? s? Italian politicians of that extract the edges, otherwise we are all friends here. And speaking of borders, the port of Victoria seems a good justification to divide the colorful crowds of Kowloon with the world put a white-collar of Hong Kong, the activities of the bank? s? of the territory and Central Finance. It is through these deep and reflective, than at night appear as a true rainbow liquid under the neon of corporate office towers and large stores of the designer, where the former elite? s? colony of the top in tension, work, shop and play. Hong Kong English-speaking, that have transferred sovereignty from Britain to the Republic of? s? of Peopleâ in 1997, is one of China's 9 percent except for a class richer, ie from Asian countries and South dall'ovest, contributing to the economic strength of the Special Administrative? s? a region with a per capita P.I.L. peerless (310,000 yuan compared to the diminutive of 47,000 yuan? s? of Shanghaiâ) that rivals most of Europe and more ofwest are the highest in China Hong Kong also seems to boast the most millionaires in ' entire Asian continent. They are so shocking or beautiful impassive beautiful. Attire in dark clothes designer with the folds of the blade immaculate and shoes polished, or dangerously outside panels of scarcity and stiletto heels of even more dangerous. Every car on the island of Hong Kong is not a taxi is a red Ferrari, jaguar-template of the new or un'annata white-walled Mercedes. And so let us not forget that guide on what considerto Americans is the wrong side of the road to Hong Kong British-influenced, watching the wrong direction before crossing the street and could get rolled over by a Rolls.But all that is not necessarily gold shines. Over the acclività? s? Central skyscrapers and scattered around the perimeter of the subtropical? s? Regions of putting more than 20 little islands that seem to jump back centuries. The island of Lantau on the English Channel to the west of Lamma valuable hides the rustic village minority of the Tai O and the Tanka people, descendants of the settlers? s before? of Hong Kong. In contrast radical the island and Kowloon in Hong Kong, there is no place in Tai O for finance, or the so furious mania, where Ferraris is replaced in fishing, agricultural bags is more useful for Gucci bags and flip-flop take preference over Prada. The community sleepy fishing rod-wood, tin-covered shacks is developed completely on top of the stilts and connected by curved bridges occupied by the old timers in a blind hats that banged their cane rods in the calm water of the delta. Of course, most visitors to Hong Kong Mong Kok invariably choose to minorities and to a dim sum of 500 U.S. dollars to five balls of fish in the dollar. The constriction of capitalism, the passion to buy and the addition of appearance-it is what Hong Kong has come to be known for and frankly, what has most of its charm. "Our lives are just like anyone? s, "of? of else; stride a manicured blonde, the wife of a banker in Hong Kong, acquistante in a boutique of high society in the district of Soho, "but with some more attached." cuisineHK The regional is the dining table of the world: from the Cantonese dim sum traditional Indian curry, delis in New York to Mexican tacos, Thai cuisine at Krispy Kreme, not to mention an overflow of McDonalds (150!) and 7-11 (600). But be prepared for both the prices ¨ CYIKES.TransportationIf you drive? t of? gives the BMW, of despair? t of? of himself. The public transport? s? of Hong Kong is highly – efficient, with rail transport (MTR) and Kowloon railway-Canton (KCR) which measures during new islands of the territories of Kowloon and Lantau and Hong Kong. The tram and bus station to handle two floors above ground while the ferry jetfoils and expensive star? s? HKâ continually beaten to subscribers via the port of Victoria. Or just hop into one of thousands of passengers prior-conscious red taxis.AccomodationFor, there is no better place (or inexpensive) to absorb the atmosphere of multicultural? s? HKâ of the infamous palaces of Mirador or Chungking on the road south of Nathan in Tsim Sha Tsui. Dormitory bases in any of the hundreds of? s? the duties of claustrophobic pensions starting at 60 yuan. # # #
Tom Carter