Daily 6am-10pm. Sited east of Gloucester Road, Victoria Park is a flat, spacious spread of paving, sports fields, and ornamental borders. It’s busy around the clock, from martial arts practitioners going through their routines and old men airing their songbirds in little cages at the crack of dawn, to people cooling off on benches under the trees at midday and football matches in the afternoon. There’s also a swimming pool (April-Dec 6.30am-noon, 1-5pm & 6-10pm; adults $19, children $9). A couple of times a year the park hosts some lively festivals, including a flower market at Chinese New Year, a lantern display for the Mid-Autumn Festival and the annual candlelit vigil for the victims of Tiananmen Square on June 4.

Over Causeway Road from the park’s southeastern corner, and up Tin Hau Temple Road, elderly Tin Hau Temple (dawn to dusk; free) is sited on top of a little hill and is dedicated to southern China’s sea goddess. Once sited on the seafront and now marooned inland, it’s not of great importance, but gives an idea of the extent of Hong Kong’s land reclamation projects.