HK is great and if you comparing to Mainland China then there is no comparison. As all say you will need visa for China but when I travel there get from their Sandhurst consulate in a few days. Kowloon is quite small and in my times there have walked it flat. On my last trip I did the HK side, up the mountain and to the zoo if only to see the Pandas. Then Monkok again for shopping. If you have time go further out to some of the monastries. I personally hate mainland have done Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Ningbo etc - found it miserable and very very polluted. In all the weeks I have spent there have never seen a blue sky. Depends on what you want to experience. I just love HK walking around Nathan round and the sidestreets at night and then along the harbour area.
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