Walking tours of West Kowloon's heritage shops and sites to start

Free guided walking tours that introduce old shops and historic buildings in West Kowloon will start next week.

The Saturday tours, organised by the Development Bureau, will include such buildings such as St Mary's Canossian College, the Gun Club Hill Barracks, the Cricket Club, Methodist College and the Old South Kowloon District Court building, which now houses the Lands Tribunal

Another type of walking tour will take people to shops along Shanghai Street that are still operating traditional Chinese businesses, such as selling wedding gowns, gold jewellery, Chinese scales, incense and sandalwood.

The tours will run every Saturday afternoon until March.

They complement the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture 2009, an event being held at the West Kowloon Cultural District site until the end of February.