On the subject of public transport, there are certain rules which everyone follows. Keep right on any escalators or walkways, always let passengers alight before you board, and give you up your seat to anyone in need. And while it might be fine to crack open a packet of prawn cocktail crisps or slurp a coffee on the London Underground, eating and drinking is not allowed on any trains, trams, buses or ferries in Hong Kong – which is why they’re all spotlessly clean.
Hong Kong is such an outdoors-y destination that it can seem like there’s little to do on a rainy day but the city has two wonderful world-class museums – the Hong Kong Palace Museum (HK$70/£7), which contains hundreds of priceless treasures borrowed from the Palace Museum in Beijing, and the gigantic M+ Museum ($190/£19), where the focus is highly visual contemporary Asian arts. Both should be on your list to visit rain or shine. On top of that, there are dozens of fascinating little niche museums, from a British colonial-era building dedicated to tea (Flagstaff House), to the Central Star Ferry’s Maritime Museum, to The Mills, which celebrates the city’s textiles industry – and almost all are free to visit on Wednesdays.
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