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This probably isn't the image most people have in mind when they think of Hong Kong, but as the photo below shows, it's just around the corner from the usual skyscrapers. You'll see this ramshackle row of huts as you leave the harbour on a junk trip towards Sai Kung.

You'll see plenty of these small restaurants around Hong Kong, with a selection of roast and barbecued meat hanging in the window. A plate of BBQ pork and steamed chicken on rice is cheap, filling, and very tasty - make sure you try it at least once if you are visiting.

You'll see plenty of these small restaurants around Hong Kong, with a selection of roast and barbecued meat hanging in the window. A plate of BBQ pork and steamed chicken on rice is cheap, filling, and very tasty - make sure you try it at least once if you are visiting.

At various places in Hong Kong you'll find clusters of these ceramic gods. Sometimes just a handful, sometimes over a hundred. Are they are bought specially for the location? Or does the site just gradually become known as a resthome for retired gods after they have done whatever good deed was required at your home?

Taken on the walk down from Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong's highest peak.

Cheung Chau is well worth a visit. This picture looks across the typhoon shelter at some of the smaller junks. As you arrive on the ferry you'll also pass rows of the much larger fishing junks.

Tai Mo Shan makes another appearance, at the left end of this panorama. Then you see the upper Shing Mun reservoir, and at the right is the lower reservoir. This photo was taken from one section of HK's wartime defenses, described in more detail here.

This is the view from the hospital room at dawn, around three hours before our first daughter was born.

There are many Banyan trees around Hong Kong, often with their roots flowing down walls like some frozen waterfall. Get the full story about these trees here.