Start your Hong Kong Heritage walking tour at Star Ferry Central with the first stop for extended discussion in "Royal" Statue Square surrounded by the Old Supreme Court Building (1911), the old Bank of China Building, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Princes Building and the Mandarin Hotel (formerly Queens Building). From there you will cross Queens Road (1841) and climb Battery Path to our second major focus on Government Hill. Here you will see the French Mission Building (now the Court of Final Appeal), Central Government Offices, St John?s Cathedral (1849) with views of Chater Gardens (formally Hong Kong Cricket Ground 1851).
Across Cotton Tree Drive and Garden Road is the Hong Kong Park, formally the military reserve, and Flagstaff House, formally the home and residence of the Commander of British Forces and now the Museum of Teaware. As you walk up hill, you will pass the Peak Tram terminus and the Helena May Institute on Garden Road, Government House and the Botanical Gardens on Upper Albert Road. Your walk then takes you westwards through upper Central and mid levels, past the Victoria Prison and Old Central Magistracy, the old Central Police Station and Hollywood Road with its antique shops.
You will experience the mid-Levels Escalator to climb a few streets up to Caine Road, at one time the dividing line between the more fashionable and less fashionable parts of mid Levels! You will then walk past the Museum of Medical Sciences and the location where the Bubonic Plague epidemic started in the 1890?s, then on to the famous Man Mo Temple and Tai Ping Shan District before ending at Possession Point, where it all started in 1841.
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