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Happy Valley, the second living area of the European after deserting the Western District. In 1841, shortly after Happy Valley was settled, the colony’s residents created the greensward and edifice which has made Happy Valley world famous.
This is
the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Happy Valley
Racecourse. It was the only horse-racing oval in the
colony until few years ago. Happy Valley’s second
most well known attraction is a place which looks like a
hallucinogenic vision of a Chinese Disneyland. This is Aw
Boon Haw Gardens which is a 45,000 sq km amusement park .
This zany site has terraced grottos which are profligate
with bizzarre stone sculptures and garish reliefs from
the most awesome and awful tales of Chinese mythology.
Ths sculptures say something about the Chinese mind. This
estate houses one of the finest jade collections in the
colony.