Exploring Hong Kong

High-energy, high-density, high-rise: Hong Kong’s amalgamation of 7 million souls somehow functions as one enormous and awe-inspiring organism.

From the steep, lush wilderness neighboring the city’s high rise, to the unkempt peasants and slick-suited bankers living side by side, this mega metropolis is teeming with contradiction and its spectacular skyline must be seen to be believed.

A solid stream of people move through the underground train network like blood pumping through the veins of the city, each heartbeat delivering new energy to the colossal concrete capital.

With its warm climate, picturesque harbour, Instagram-worthy beaches and close proximity to booming China, it’s not hard to see why this tropical paradise was injected with money and found itself swallowed up by buildings and multinational companies. It is a playground for the one percent.

Hong Kong is a city of juxtaposition where as East meets West, so too does rich and poor, modern and traditional, and nature and culture collide. All this makes for a travel affair like no other, with vastly disparate encounters within the same city.

Seek and you shall find.