Guide to Hong Kong Tours

Tours in Hong Kong covers the gamut from shopping in the city to discovery of heritage in New Territories and you can travel by means of bus, boats and limousine or even helicopter depends on your budget.

The Hong Kong tourism board operates the quality tourism services scheme. Shops and restaurants signed up to the program to have been audited and found to provide clear pricing and genuine products.

Sightseeing & Shopping Tours

Hong Kong New Territories and Island Hopping Tours

Hong Kong Island Tours

The tour gives you the view of the Victoria Harbour from the Victoria Peak and then takes you to Aberdeen typhoon shelters. On the way Stanley Market which you can enjoy stop-offs at Repulse Bay and Deep Water Bay. All of the sites recommended for first times tourist in Hong Kong.

Open Top Bus Tour

Hong Kong is a lively city from dawn to dusk. You can get the maximum during the evening hours also. The best nightlife could be experienced at the romantic harbour cruise along with other attractions too. Open top bus tour is a thrilling experience for you to enjoy the Hong Kong night life.

Come Horseracing Tour

Horse racing is one of the Hong Kong's pastimes. Choose to place your bets at either the Sha Tin or Happy Valley racecourses.

'The Land Between' Tour

Between urban Hong Kong and mainland China lays the fertile New Territories. This tour showcases the enduring traditions of Hong Kong's rural hinterland, you'll got to see the Yuen Yuen Temple complex Tai Mo Shan and Luk Keng also the walled village at Fanling and the fishing village at Sam Mun Tsai with some great sea-and-mountain landscapes.

Kowloon and New Territories Tour

Kowloon and New Territories Tour goes to places which are reserved and away from the polluted and highly traffic areas. The greenery of the village is shown and experienced to the travelers.

Kowloon Discovery Tour

Name after the one of the city's wealthiest and most prominent families you are about to be experience the Tang-style splendor of Chi Lin Nunnery. After visiting Lung Cheung Road lookout point to view of panorama of Kowloon.

Sea & Land Tour

In the morning jump a board a Chinese pleasure junk to see Hong Kong's beautiful skyline from the water. And watch the firing of the Noon Day Gun in Causeway Bay typhoon shelter. Hong Kong Island Orientation Tour or Kowloon and New Territories are both promises splendid tours.

Nightlife Tour and Night Cruise

To see is to believe and whatever you will see in Hong Kong will surely amaze you. Hong Kong's evening enchantment dazzles everyone. The food, tours, and entertainment in this modern and cozy city makes visitors want to always come back to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Back Garden Tour
(Sai Kung)

A jubilee International tour is vivid meeting of old and new, and east & west. To start visit to Che Kung Temple in Ho Chung after that you can cruise along the fishing village and then to Hung Shing Temple on offshore Kau Sai Chau.

Hong Kong Nature Tours

Join the many Hong Kong tours to experience Hong Kong's most traditional elements; myths and legendary places; many daring things on an adventure tour; greenhouse full of flowers, education centers, vegetables gardens; dolphin watching; nature trails, romantic harbour cruises; and more.

Culture and Heritage Tour

The Traditional Lifestyles Tour is the perfect chance to experience Hong Kong's most traditional elements, such as Feng Shui and Tai Chi, while also seeing some of the cities most modern architecture. Try early morning tai chi as the antidote to hectic city life, then move onto feng shui appreciation at the Lantau Link Viewpoint after a tea demonstration and practice at a local teahouse you will have a new perspective on traditional Chinese culture.

Feng Shui Tour

Feng Shui means 'Wind and Water' it's an ancient system designed for man to live in harmony with nature. On the Sky Bird Tour, you will learn how its principles influence the locals. Examples are the Tsing Ma Bridge the Nine Dragons Wall and the architecture of the Central.

Cantonese Opera (Behind the Masks) Tours

Is more than just a traditional music, it is a style of dance which employs graceful and stylized body movements and expressions. Two tours that offer foreign language speakers the chance to appreciate the beauty and value of this very Cantonese art form.

Painting a face the Chinese Operatic Way is the first, you will be dressed in full costume and taught to pose by professional photographer. Appreciation of Cantonese Opera is the second, you will be introduced to the music face painting and acting techniques.

Hong Kong Wetland Delight Tour

The city of Hong Kong is already very famous for its myths and legendary places. Of these legendary and memorable places is the Hong Kong Wetland park which gives you an exciting experience with simplicity.

Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden Experience Tour

An awesome location on the slope of the mountain. Offers the travelers with greenhouse full of flowers, education centers, vegetables gardens and even different biodiversity projects.

Hong Kong Dolphin Watching Tours

The Hong Kong Dolphin Watching Tour are a unique opportunity to see Hong Kong's beautiful but endangered pink dolphins.  The tours lead you to see the dolphins in their natural yet scenic habitat. 

Tai O Village Ecotour

Introduces the greenery of Hong Kong to the world, as people are not aware of the vast and thick greens they possess apart from the tall buildings. The program consists of different eco tourism plans and each day from Monday to Friday has different events, which take place.

Outdoor Adventure Tours

There are many daring things to enjoy on an adventure tour: hunting, train adventure, diving, fishing, trekking, horse riding, skiing, biking, rafting, climbing, elephant and camel riding, shopping, jeep safari and lot more as the list goes on unending.

The Outdoor Adventure Walks

The real magic of the countryside of Hong Kong is how close it is to the city and easy to join up outdoor adventures walks . Hong Kong has an amazing variety of scenery, lush valleys, sub tropical forests, rugged peaks, coastal walks and secluded beaches in the rural areas of the city. This is what makes Hong Kong a must-see place.

Walking Tours

Walking tours of central Hong Kong are apt to involve elbowing one's way through crowds of shoppers. But the Hong Kong Tourism Board does have a couple of itineraries, with ‘Heritage and Architectural Walks' in Hong Kong Island Kowloon, and varied other theme walks/hikes for the outlying islands.

Guides and a rental audio commentary system are available for HK$50. The walks take from two to four hours. The HKTB Visitor Hotline (tel: 2508 1234) or any tourist office provides details.

Other operators also run HKTB-approved tours, such as Gray Line Tours (tel: 2368 7111; website: www.grayline.com.hk) or Splendid Tours and Travel (tel: 2316 2151; website: www.splendidtours.com).

Details of these are available on the Hong Kong Tourism Board's website, categorised by theme.

Hong Kong Hiking Trails

Walkers wishing to range further afield have plenty of well-trodden routes for penetrating the rural New Territories and backwoods of Hong Kong Island, such as the 100km (60-mile) MacLehose Trail, the 50km (30-mile) Hong Kong Trail, or even the 3.5km (2.2-mile) Peak Trail. But water bottles are essential for any traveller attempting these routes during the summer.

Hong Kong Bus Tours

Numerous themed bus tours are listed on the Hong Kong Tourism Board website (see above), including a Hong Kong Unique Experiences, a Touring Hong By Night', a Touring Hong Kong's Outlying Islands and a Hong Kong Culture and Heritage Tours.

Tours vary in duration, departure point and cost, for details, visitors should contact the HKTB's Visitor Hotline (tel: 2508 1234) or the Tour Reservation Hotline (tel: 2368 7112) or visit www.discoverhongkong.com.

Gray Line Tours (tel: 2368 7111; website: www.grayline.com.hk), Splendid Tours and Travel (tel: 2316 2151; website: www.splendidtours.com) and Sky Bird Travel Agency (tel: 2736 2282; website: www.skybird.com.hk) all offer similar bus tours of the city.

Hong Kong Boat Tours

Boat tours of Hong Kong's waters are provided by several companies.

Hong Kong Watertours provides a variety of harbour and island tours from HK$28, while Star Ferry provides ferry tours for HK$180.

Harbour tours take around two to three hours.

Hong Kong Watertours has pick-up points throughout Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, although the tours sail from Queen's Pier on Hong Kong side or the Kowloon Public Pier on Kowloon Side.

The Star Ferry tours sail from the Star Ferry terminals on either side of the harbour.

Helicopter Tours

Helicopter trips are available for those wanting to discover the Hong Kong skyline from above. Operate from rooftop helipad of the Peninsula Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui and Kowloon offers various tours including 15 minutes journey around Hong Kong Island, 30 minute tours of Hong Kong Island and New Territories and an hour around the Lantau Island. Including the big Buddha and the airport. Each helicopter takes up five passengers. There are also services like Fly-and-Dine packages which include 15 minutes sightseeing and followed by dinner in one of the Peninsula's swish restaurants.

Contact Heliservices Hong Kong Limited
tel: 2108 9898; fax: 2108 9938;
website: www.skyshuttlehk.com

 

SUMMARY OF TOURS

Hong Kong Tours by day

• Hong Kong Disneyland Tour
• Hong Kong Island Tour
• Hong Kong's Famed and Famous
• Kowloon and New Territories Tour
• Ocean Park Tour (Half Day/Full Day)
• The Land Between Tour (Half Day/Full Day)

Touring Hong Kong's Harbour

• A Symphony of Lights Harbour Cruise
• Afternoon Harbour Cruise
• Evening Harbour Cruise
• Morning Harbour Cruise
• Sunset Cruise

Touring Hong Kong By Night

• Aberdeen & Harbour Night
• Harbour Lights and Lei Yue Mun Seafood Village Dinner Cruise
• Open Top Bus Tour (Japanese Speaking)
• Pearl by Night
• Splendid Night of Delights
• Top of the Town and Night Cruise
• Victoria Romance

Touring Hong Kong's Outlying Islands

• Cheung Chau Island Tour
• Island Hopping Pass
• Lamma Island Romance Tour
• New Lantau Island Tour
• Tai O Village Ecotour

Hong Kong's Culture and Heritage Tours

• Cantonese Opera - Behind the Masks Tour

• Feng Shui Tour
• Heritage Tour
• Hong Kong Heritage Walk
• Hong Kong Traditional Lifestyles Tour

Outdoor Adventure Tours in Hong Kong

• Hikes - Amah Rock / Lion Rock Country Park
• Hikes - Dragon's Back / Tai Tam Country Park
• Hikes - Ma On Shan / Sai Kung West Country Park
• Hikes - Po Lin Monastery / South Lantau Country Park
• Hikes - Tai Long Wan / Sai Kung East Country Park
• Hikes - The Peak to Aberdeen
• Hikes - Wu Kau Tang / Tai Po & Plover Cove Country Park
• The Outdoor Adventure Walks

Hong Kong's Unique Experiences

• Come Horseracing Tour
• Cooking Class
• Hong Kong Dolphin Watching Tours
• Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden Experience Tour
• Hong Kong Wetland Delight Tour

Touring Around Pearl River Delta

• Guangzhou (Canton) Tour
• Macau Tour
• Shenzhen Tour
• Zhongshan Tour

Transiting Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Island Orientation
• Hong Kong Transit Tour
• Lantau and Monastery Tour
• Transit Explorer - Lantau Island Highlights

 

Tours Outside Hong Kong

Shenzhen City Tour and Lo Wu Shopping Mall Tour

Shenzhen is separated from Hong Kong by just a river but is really another "system". The Shenzen tour will give you a chance to experience life in modern, commercial, special economic zone of China. Look for bargains at the Lo Wu Shopping Mall.

Must see are the parks like Splendid China, the China Folk Culture Villages and Window of the World.

Macau Tour

The historic centre of Macau is listed as a World Heritage Site making Macau the 31st site in China to be granted this status in UNESCO.

Tour Macau to get a taste of the mix Portuguese and Chinese legacy. See the A-Ma Temple, the ruins of St Paul, the Macau Tower. Luxurious shopping at the Wynn, MGM or the Venetian Canal Shops. And of course there are the casinos.

Hong Kong Tours

• Hong Kong Island Tours
• Open Top Bus Tour
• Come Horseracing Tour
• 'The Land Between' Tour
• Kowloon and New Territories Tour
• Nightlife Tour and Night Cruise
• Culture and Heritage Tour
• Hong Kong Wetland Delight Tour
• Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden Experience Tour
• Hong Kong Dolphin Watching Tours
• Tai O Village Ecotour
• Outdoor Adventure Tours
• The Outdoor Adventure Walks
• Hong Kong Boat Tours
• Macau Tour

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