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Nan Lian Garden

Traditional Chinese landscape garden (l,d; $)

“南蓮園池 Nan Lian Garden” / 香港園林建築全景 Hong Kong Landscape Architecture Panorama / 中國旅遊 中国旅游 China Tourism

Nan Lian Garden is Hong Kong’s most beautiful Chinese garden, at least to my eyes. Built in the classical style of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), it adheres to the blueprint of China’s Jiangshouju, the only Tang landscape garden that can still be traced through chronicles.

With an emphasis on water and natural scenery, Nan Lian Garden is meant to be toured in a one-way circular route, so that each turn of the path brings different vistas of artificial hills, ornamental rocks, ponds, waterfalls, and wooden structures (unfortunately, surrounding densely packed housing estates mar some of the views).

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221BC–1911: Imperial Chinese Era

Northern Kowloon

Parks & Gardens

Sha Tin

Restaurants at Attractions

Northern Kowloon In-A-Day

Farther Afield in Kowloon

Text © Beth Reiber

Images by Photo by Mark Zastrow, Photo by Roger Price, See-ming Lee