We meet farmers weathering storms in Nam Chung, explore TikTok’s viral aura-boat craze, and taste Armenia’s reimagined traditions
Have you ever wanted to pack it all away and move to the farm? I certainly have, usually around the 10th consecutive hour in front of a screen.
Tucked away in the New Territories’ northeast, Nam Chung has become a kind of open-air experiment for Hongkongers trying to rewire their lives: academics, ex-editors, spiritualists. The village, population 30, has a temple-turned-co-living space, a vegetarian lunch club and just one minibus connecting it to the city. (I’m both drawn to and vaguely horrified by every part of that sentence.) The story prompted some introspection – could I really hack a one-minibus lifestyle?
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