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Let Yuen Long's walled villages take you back over half a millennium to a
wild and windy time when piracy was rife along the South China coast. Isol-
ated from China's administrative heart, Hong Kong, with its treacherous shores and
mountainous terrain, was an excellent hideout for pirates. Its earliest inhabitants
built villages with high walls, some guarded by cannons, to protect themselves. In-
side these walls today you'll see ancestral halls, courtyards, pagodas, temples, and
ancient farming implements - vestiges of Hong Kong's precolonial history, all care-
fully restored.
New Territories
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