Kowloon Park
Former British military barracks turned urban park, with an aviary, flamingo pond, and preserved colonial barrack blocks.
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This guide to Kowloon Park in Hong Kong starts from the ground beneath the flamingo pond and pigeons, once ringed by British artillery as part of Whitfield Barracks, built from eighteen sixty-four. You'll hear about the garrison's mosque, its coastal battery aimed at the harbor entrance, and the darker turn the site took when Japan occupied Hong Kong in nineteen forty-one, including one witness's account from those years. The guide also follows what happened to the barracks after the Japanese surrender and the decades before the British handed the site back. Two of the original barrack blocks still stand near the Bird Lake.
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