Tai O Heritage Hotel is a refined hilltop retreat where cultural conservation and historic village life intersect.

Lantau is Hong Kong’s largest island, home to three of its busiest spots – Hong Kong Disneyland, the Tian Tan Buddha and Chep Lak Kok Airport. But on the island’s western tip, on a spit of land that ...

In the beginning there was no road, so Tai O faced the sea. Then the tarmac arrived in the 1970s, snaking through Lantau—the largest island in the archipelago of Hong Kong—to connect, and forever ...

What’s this place all about? Tai O, located along the western coast of Lantau Island, transports visitors to a slower-paced way of life, when Hong Kong consisted of many small fishing villages. During ...

Hong Kong (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting among his fridge, TV set and stacks of bowls, Ng Kei-hung sat outside the family home in Hong Kong's Tai O village as he waited for his furniture to ...

Tai O Stilt Houses, "Pang Uk". Image © Downtown Tai O by pete, CC BY 2.0 Historically, however, this was not the case. Hong Kong's earliest built environments ...