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Hong Kong Revives Border Village In Alternative Tourism Push

The seaside village was once home to Hakka people from southern China but was mostly abandoned in recent decades (Credit: 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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