More tourists are heading to this nearly forgotten 300-year-old Hakka village in Hong Kong


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Kuk Po was among the rural townships listed in Hong Kong’s tourism policy blueprint in December. — AFP

Tourists in Hong Kong are flocking to the 300-year-old village of Kuk Po, whose decaying mansions and reed fields offer a respite from the city’s famously frenetic pace.

The seaside village was once home to Hakka people from southern China but was mostly abandoned in recent decades, even as gleaming high-rises sprang up in nearby Shenzhen across the Chinese border.

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