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Hong Kong & the South
Hong Kong is more than just a snappy-looking international gateway to China:
in many ways it is China - and always has been - in its language, cooking,
people and folk traditions. The mellifluous singsong sounds of Cantonese are
everywhere on the harbour breeze, as is the aroma of dim sum. But British rule
lent Hong Kong something distinctive, most evidently in its vigorous cosmopolit-
anism and open-mindedness. Across the water, Macau is equally special: call it
China with Portuguese characteristics.
Over the border, southern China ranges across a tantalising spectrum of land-
scapes, from the picture-perfect karst peaks of Yangshuo to the spectacular
roundhouse-dotted hills of southwest Fujian, the ancient and noble Hunan and
Guizhou river towns of Fenghuang and Zhenyuan and the gentrified island re-
treat of Gulang Yu, offshore from Xiamen and facing Taiwan.
 
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