Daily 6am-midnight. There’s an escape from the teeming masses in Kowloon Park, which stretches along Nathan Road between Haiphong and Austin roads. Parts of it have been landscaped and styled as a Chinese garden with fountains, rest areas, a children’s playground, and two bird collections - the wildfowl (including flamingoes and mandarin ducks) outside in landscaped ponds, the parrots and other exotically coloured rainforest species contained in a small aviary. There’s also a swimming complex (daily 8am-noon, 1.30-6pm & 7.30-10pm; $21) and a sculpture walk.

The southeastern corner of the park is taken up with an open area known as the Kung Fu Corner. Full of practitioners from about 6am every morning, it also hosts free displays of various martial arts between 2.30pm and 4.30pm every Sunday. Below it, at 105 Nathan Road, is the large Kowloon Mosque (no public access), built in the mid-1980s to replace a mosque originally built in 1894 for the British Army’s Muslim troops from India. It retains a classic design, with a central white marble dome and minarets.

Leave the park at the southern end and you can drop down to Haiphong Road and its small covered produce market at the Canton Road end (daily 6am-8pm).