A holiday to Hong Kong is a once in a lifetime experience, if you want a holiday to remember book a holiday to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is an island at the mouth of the Pearl River, on the south eastern coast of China and just south of the Tropic of Cancer. Its natural harbour is the reason for its importance as a trading centre in South East Asia.
Hong Kong territory consists of Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula on the mainland opposite Hong Kong Island, the New Territories (365 square miles of the mainland) and the Outlying Islands. There are 234 islands, the largest is Lantau, the site of the new airport and the smallest are little more than rocks.
The climate is subtropical with cool winters and hot humid summers (June to September) with occasional storms. The terrain is hilly. Air pollution is sometimes a problem in the major towns.
As a major international business centre with many years of history and as a key port of South East Asia, Hong Kong shows in its food and cookery the influence of many countries.
As well as the main styles of Chinese food such as Canton, Peking, Shanghai and Szechuan there is also food from the other eastern countries such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Restaurants serving western food and fast food from chains such as McDonald's and Pizza Hut are also popular.
The official languages in Hong Kong are English and Cantonese (a south eastern Chinese dialect originating in the Guangdong Province). Cantonese is spoken more widely than English but English is the language used in business. Mandarin has become more important since Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of China.