It hit me the moment I found myself wedged between an orangutan and an American flamingo in the middle of the Hong Kong botanical gardens: this is a city unlike any other.  To sum up Hong Kong in one word it is Big. Huge. Humungous. Enormous. Colossal.  Take your pick of fancy words that equal “big”.   Is it overwhelming?  Of course, but when you embrace this floaty sense of being overwhelmed it is absolutely incredible.  Hong Kong is the definition of Big City.

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