Hong Kong city and country

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ma on shanA short summary of Hong Kong tourist attractions including hiking trails, a nature reserve, and islands.

Hong Kong Typhoons including Calamitous Storm Surges

Typhoons have sometimes caused massive damage and loss of life in Hong Kong. Just months after British sovereignty over Hong Kong Island was first declared in 1841, “a violent typhoon flattened all the insubstantial housing and damaged shipping.” (Endacott, A…

Hong Kong tropical cyclones

Hong Kong can be impacted by tropical cyclones including and typhoons. Happily, typhoons are scarce near Hong Kong, and rarely score direct hits (13 from 1946 to now) – but can be spectacular and deadly when they do impact the…

Hong Kong weather and hiking

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Hong Kong’s climate is sub-tropical, with a hot, steamy summer eventually yielding to a drier, warm to hot autumn, then sometimes cool winter, and the swiftly warming, sometimes rainy spring. There are two major monsoons, with fairly consistent winds: the…

Mosquitoes in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, mosquitoes are pesky, but currently rarely carry diseases. For most of my time in Hong Kong, mosquitoes have been pretty much just an irritant – especially from spring to autumn, in and near woodland, and worst around…

HK sea fishing

Welcome to Hong Kong’s first ever offshore and deepsea fishing forum. Due to fishermen trade secrets we can’t tell you exactly where we fish, but we can certainly tell you what we caught! Asiatic Marine has a variety of fishing…

HK diving

Hong Kong’s rocky reefs and coral communities shelter a diverse and exquisite range of fish and marine fauna Hong Kong is surrounded by sea. The approximate sea surface area is 1650 sq km, and dotted with some 200 islands. The…

Pedro Blanco over fishing

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Pedro Blanco finds itself at the centre of some of the most intense and destructive fishing pressure within the South China Sea.