TouchScreenTravels

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Sha Tin

Sha Tin is the most populous of Hong Kong’s 18 districts, with an astounding 630,000 living within its boundaries. It’s a prime example of how much the New Territories have changed over the past century; just a short 40-some years ago, it was a rural community of only 30,000 people. Although Sha Tin has swallowed surrounding small towns and villages in its path, vestiges of earlier times and traditions remain.

One of Sha Tin’s most popular destinations for is Che Kung Temple, a Taoist temple founded during the Ming Dynasty and popular for those seeking blessings or good fortune. Just a 15-minute walk away is Tsang Tai Uk, one of the best surviving examples of an inhabited walled village. It was built in the 1840s, with its thick high walls, narrow pedestrian lanes lined with homes and central ancestral hall still intact.

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Che Kung Temple

A Temple of Epidemic Proportions

Hong Kong Heritage Museum

Lifestyles & Culture in the New Territories

Monastery of 10,000 Buddhas

More than 10,000 Buddhas & a Monk (l; $)

Nan Lian Garden

Traditional Chinese landscape garden (l,d; $)

Tsang Tai Uk

Walled Village a Relic in The New Territories

Image by Bernard Spragg. NZ