Ask for a harbour mountain-view room and you can watch seaplanes take off from Coal Harbour or see the first streaks of light hit the snow-capped North Shore mountains as you sip your morning coffee.

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For the ultimate show-stopping view, stand at the harbour edge in Tsim Sha Tsui and take in Hong Kong Island's skyscrapers' gradient-defying march up steep jungle slopes.

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Sunken World War II warships in Scapa Flow harbour offer fantastic diving opportunities, or take a ferry to either Westray or Hoy for spectacular cliffside walks and the chance to see puffins and other seabirds at the bird preserves on each island.

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Slowly putt-putting out of the harbour in a brightly painted blue-and-orange ramshackle boat, the fisherman will likely take you towards the bays and reefs of the tiny outer islands.

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