“Elsewhere in Hong Kong, many abandoned villages had houses collapsed beyond recognition and vegetation invaded the whole village,” says Chiu Ying Lam, head of the Hong Kong Countryside Foundatio ...
The seaside village of Kuk Po was once home to Hakka people from southern China but has been mostly abandoned in recent ...
Tourists in Hong Kong are flocking to the 300-year-old village of Kuk Po, whose decaying mansions offer a respite from the ...
More than a decade ago, construction on an underground rail link connecting Hong Kong to mainland China began beneath Yau Tam ...
Kuk Po may not be known to everyone, but its more than 300 years of history are part of an effort to promote a different kind ...
Two British artists, Rob Aspire and Dominic Johnson-Hill, have painted colourful birds on abandoned houses on Hong Kong's ...
The roots of banyan trees twined around open doorways, and wild boar or lost hikers were the only foot traffic through the decaying village. But Lai Chi Wo was not entirely forgotten. “Elsewhere in ...