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the Luk Yu Te House on Stanley Street Oust west of D’Aguilar Street), a delightfully traditional Chinese tea house(see
"Eating, drinking and nightlife", p. 754).In a general southerly direction from Lan Kwai Fong- a short but steep walk along Glenealy Street and under the flyover - are the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens (daily 6am-7pm; free), origimlly opened in 1864 and still a pleasant refuge from the hubbub of Central, though the caged birds and animals are nothing spectacular. The gardens are cut down the middle by Albany Street, but an underground walkway coimects the two halves. To get here direct from the Star Ferry Terminal area, catch buses #3B or 12 heading cast along Connught Road. North of the gardens, just across Upper Albert Road, Government House was thc official residence of fifteen Hong Kong governors from 1855 until 1997 Although the present thief executive has chosen not to live here, and uses it only for official entertaining, the house is not open to the public, and the only open one weekend a year usually in March. A few hundred gardens are metres to the east, and rather more impressive than the Botanical Gardens is Hong Kong Park (daily 6.30am-llpm; free). From the eastern exit of the Botanical Gardens you can walk to the park in about ten minutes along Garden Road. There’s also an entrance just to the east of the Peak Tram terminal. Otherwise, the nrain entrance to the park is from the north,on Supreme Court Road; follow signs from Admiralty MTN station, through the Pacific Place shopping mall. The highlight here is the excellent Edward Youde aviary which, if you are at all interested in birds, is well worth a visit (daily 9am, Spin, free).Walk around the raised walkways inside the superbly created natural environment, and you’ll find yourself surrounded by rate birds swooping about, nesting and breeding. At the south (highest)end of the park there is also a tai ji court, while in the north is the Museum of Tea ware (daily except Wed lOam-5pm; free), housed in Hong Kong’s oldest surviving colonial building, Flagstaff House, constructed IB44-46, and today incongru ously located right in the shade of the Bank of China tower. It’s stuffed with 3,000 Chinese artefacts related to tea making.
One other relic of the earliest days of Hong Kong’s colonial past is the Anglican St John’s Cathedral, a httle farther north down Garden Road from the Peak Tram terminal. Dating back to 1849, the church is now located in a hillside grove of trees in the lee of skyscrapers.
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