Harlech Road and Lugard Road Circular Walk, The Peak
Paved circular promenade ringing Victoria Peak at four hundred metres, with sweeping harbour and city views.
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This guide to the Harlech and Lugard Road walk on Victoria Peak traces the Peak Reservation Ordinance, which barred Chinese residents from living on the mountain from 1904 to 1947, and the Chinese stonecutters who built this cliffside promenade anyway. It follows the eight years of blasting and cantilevered engineering behind the path beneath your feet, halted mid-route by the First World War. The road still carries the name of a governor who never saw it finished.
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