The Harbor is located between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula. The harbor is wide and the water is deep, an adventurous natural condition. Hong Kong's striking coastline and the countless container vessels, junks, sampans and pleasure craft gliding around the harbor create an exciting view. The spectacular backdrop of Hong Kong Island's stunning skyline will fire your imagination as darkness falls and a dazzling neon cityscape emerges.
Something about the history
Starting out as a fishing port many decades ago, the harbor in Hong Kong (Victoria Harbor) has always been an important part of Hong Kong especially in terms of economics. Before the advent of the cross harbor tunnels, it served as a vital route of transportation between the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. Nowadays, it is more for leisure. Cruise liners, yachts, sailboats and other leisure crafts routinely sail through it. In other parts of the Hong Kong waters, gigantic cargo container ships are loaded and unloaded with the import and export merchandize that Hong Kong handle.
So busy a harbor
This is brilliant, hundreds of sea-vessels of all shapes and sizes zipping around in Victoria harbour, Hong Kong. Scroll around to see just how many of them there are! Victoria Harbor is one of the busiest ports in the world, with an average of 220,000 ships visiting the harbor each year.
What to see
Victoria Harbour, one of the most popular travel tourist attractions in Hong Kong, is flanked by impressive skylines. Skyscrapers and Victoria Peak occupy one side while Tsim Sha Tshui sits on the other. The harbor is known for impressive views and scintillating public shows.
Fabulous night view
The Victoria Harbor is world-famous for its stunning panoramic night view and skyline, particularly in the direction towards Hong Kong Island where the skyline of skyscrapers is superimposed over the ridges behind. Among the best places to view the Harbor is at the Victoria Tower on the Victoria Peak, or from the piazza at the Culture Centre or the promenade of Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon side. Rides on the Star Ferry to view the harbor are also widely popular.
Splendid shows
As the natural epicenter of the territory, the harbor has played host too many major public shows, including the annual fireworks displays on the 2nd night of the Lunar New Year. These shows are popular with tourists and locals alike, and the show is usually telecast on local television. To add to the popularity of the harbor as a sightseeing location, the government introduced a show dubbed A Symphony of Lights, using use audio, lights and pyrotechnics to introduce the city to its viewers every evening.
Other attractions
Also recently opened, was the Avenue of Stars, built along the promenade outside the New World Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui. Modeled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, it honors the most illustrious people the Hong Kong film industry has produced over the past decades.
By the end of November every year, the outer walls of buildings in the central business districts on both sides of the harbors are dressed with Christmas-related decorations, and replaced with Lunar New Year-related ones by January.