Tsuen Wan in the west of the New Territories is one of Hong Kong’s New
Towns - a satellite town, built from scratch in the last 25 years to absorb
some of the overflow from Hong Kong’s burgeoning population. With getting on
for a miUion inhabitants, Tsuen Wan now has all the amenities of a large,modern city in its own right, and is easily reached from downtown Hong Kong by

MTR or by hoverferries from Central. If you are interested in seeing a New
Town (and the way most Hong Kong people live), this is the perfect place to
start.
One very attractive sight virtually in the middle of Tsuen Wan is the Sam Tung Uk Museum (daily except Tues 9am-Spm; free), which is essentially a restored two-hundred-year-old walled village of a type typical of this part of southern China. The village was founded in 1786 by a Hakka clan named Chan, who continued to live here, incredibly, until the 1970s. Now the houses have been restored with their original furnishings, and there are various exhibitions on aspects of the lives of the Hakka people. You can reach the museum by following signs out of Tsuen Wan MTR station - it’s about a tenminute walk.A couple of blocks south of the MTR station (in the direction of the shore), on ShiuWo Street, maxicab #81 runs up to the nearby Lo Wai Village, where the YuenYuen Institute is located. This is a large temple complex dedicated to the three main religions practised in Hong Kong - Buddhism, Taoism and Confuwcianism - and its main structure is a copy of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. Its chief attractions, however, are the beautiful hillside location and an excellent vegetarian restaurant.Moving on from Tsuen Wan, you can either catch bus #60M or #68M from the bus terminal opposite the MTR to Tuen Mun - another huge New Town whose main boast is that it holds the Gold Coast development, featuring HongKong’slargest shopping mai1, a resort hotel, a marina club and convention centre or, from an overpass just north of the MTR, catch bus #51 north to Kam Tin. The ride to KamTin is a spectacular one, running right past Hong Kong’s
highest peak, Tai Mo Shan, which at 957m is nearly twice the height of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island. Ifyou want to climb up to the top of the mountain, there’s a bus stop on a pass right under the peak get offhcre and follow a signposted path up to the top. The excellent MacLehose Trail runs right through here, and this is as good a place as any to join it. For detailed information on the trail, which in all runs 100km across the New Territories from Tnen Mun in the west to the Sai Kung Peninsula in the east, contact the HKTB (see p.716) or the Country and Marine Parks Branch, Floor 12, 393 Canton Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-noon; 2733 2132).

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