Victoria Peak

Hong Kong at night is really very beautiful,” wrote the novelist Liu Yichang. “Looking down from here the Kowloon peninsula in the distance is as beautiful as a painting. Actually it is even more beautiful than a painting. Lights have been switched on in thousands of buildings, and they glimmer like slivers of pearls on a piece of black velvet. The ships afloat in the harbour channel, the tall buildings in Central – they are real, but they also seem to lack reality they should have.