Victoria Peak
Iconic hilltop summit above Hong Kong harbour with panoramic skyline views and a layered colonial past.
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This guide to Victoria Peak in Hong Kong opens in 1888, when a new tram began carrying the colony's European elite up the island's highest point, and traces the 1904 ordinance that made the summit legally off-limits to Chinese residents without the Governor's personal approval. It follows the sedan-chair bearers and the Chaozhou stonecutters who built the roads and walkways up here, then were required by law to go back down to live. Listen for how one businessman found a way around the rule with his hilltop gardens in 1927.
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