Chi Lin Nunnery and Nan Lian Garden - Hong Kong Series: Part IV
Chi Lin Nunnery & Nan Lian Garden: Diamond Hill, Hong Kong | The Island Explorer ↑ × Hong Kong Series — Part IV Where the City Pauses for Ancient Things The Cultural Interior — Diamond Hill, Kowloon, Hong Kong Chi Lin Nunnery & Nan Lian Garden: Where Diamond Hill Pauses the City Chi Lin Nunnery · Nan Lian Garden · Diamond Hill, Hong Kong Diamond Hill is not a hill. Not really — not anymore. The MTR station carries the name, but what you find above ground is something far more surprising: a wide, unhurried world of timber, stone, still water, and old discipline, ringed entirely by Hong Kong’s relentless skyline. It is one of the more quietly remarkable contradictions this city manages without effort. I came for both sites that share this ground — Chi Lin Nunnery and Nan Lian Garden — and left feeling like I had moved through two very different centuries in a single afternoon. ...
