Hong Kong Island - Causeway Bay

Causeway Bay, a district of many different aspects, lies to the east of the city center. Here, within the specially constructed typhoon shelter, are the moorings for the luxury craft of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (which still clings stubbornly to the "Royal" in its name), as well as some 250 junks and sampans occupied by a thousand or so of Hong Kong's boat-dwellers.

To the south of the Yacht Club are the World Trade Centre and the Noon-Day Gun. Also in Causeway Bay, on Times Square, is Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper, the Central Plaza (fine views from the Sky Lobby on the 46th floor).

The typhoon shelter here, protected by breakwaters, is the second largest of Hong Kong's typhoon havens, the largest being the harbor of Aberdeen. Here there are a few hundred people living on boats - a much smaller number than a few years ago.