Country
China
Coordinates
22.32° N, 114.17° E
Best hour
Dusk, from the Kowloon side
Continent
Asia
The densest skyline on the planet, wedged between a harbour and a mountain that refused to be built on.
Hong Kong is the only city where a 600mm lens makes sense from street level. Compress the towers and the individual buildings disappear into pure repetition — windows as texture, lit at random, a pattern that changes every minute as people come home.
Then turn around. Seventy percent of the territory is country park. You can be in subtropical forest with a black kite overhead forty minutes after leaving Central, which is the actual story of this city and almost nobody photographs it.
The wild neighbour
Green Sea Turtle
Chelonia mydas
Sham Wan on Lamma is the territory's last green turtle nesting beach.
