Hong Kong Nostalgia 懷舊香港
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Hong Kong Island - skyline at dusk, Wanchai, Admiralty and Central.
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Hong Kong- January 2020
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Hong Kong morning- 04-2023
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Morning Hong Kong- 23-04-2023
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Kong Kaen, Thailand.
In foreground a copy of the Two Pillars Pagoda in Hanoi, Vietnam; in background the huge golden Wat Nong Wang.
POSE, VIZIE and STEEL teamed up with XEME over in Hong Kong on a recent tour.
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Hong Kong is a global financial hub, and has been a major destination for tourists and business people from around the world for at least a century. Today it is also a major tourism destination for mainland China's increasingly affluent population.
Hong Kong Olympians of this pedigree are now very rare. i think only 4 survive in active roles, with a few others languishing beached waiting their fate. TIL6570 of course survived from the MASS Sheffield clear out and now finds use with a dance troupe in the North West. Not easy to photograph but finally cornered in West Yorkshire of all places !
Hong Kong’s dazzling skyline, backed by spectacular mountains and lining its vast harbour, is the world’s greatest. It has topped the Emporis Skyline Rankings every year since their inception, most recently with a score of 144,606 in 2018. The Seoul and New York skylines trail far behind in 2nd and 3rd place, with scores of 52,129 and 48,218 respectively. It’s really no competition?
Hong Kong is a major business and financial center in the People’s Republic of China. It is also the city with the most number of skyscrapers in the world. Today, Hong Kong city boasts 7687 high-rise buildings and 303 incredible skyscrapers.
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities[c] in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth-most-densely-populated region.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after Qing China ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842.The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War, and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The territory was returned to China when the lease expired in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong's system of government is separate from that of mainland China.
June 20th 2009 I came back from Hong Kong but it seems as if it was yesterday. This city will forever have a special place in my heart and I hope to return as soon as possible.
Hong Kong skyline. A single frame from many thousands captured as part of a timelapse video youtu.be/LMV757QmDeQ?si=84ZBzAsLXdrstH49
"There's one thing we haven't thought of ..."
"What ?"
"Airplanes."
('King Kong' and 'airplanes' by NECA)
'Empire State Building' diorama by RK
For roughly 12 USD or 95 Hong Kong Dollars, Star Ferry's Harbour Tour is a real sightseeing bargain. More importantly, Star Ferry offers splendid views of Hong Kong you can't see otherwise. There are few sight-seeing activities I'll partake in these days, but this ferry is worth breaking my rule. A ride on the water is especially nice when there is a golden sunset ready to glisten on the harbour's waters.
Star Ferry itself is a beloved Hong Kong icon. Until 1978 Star Ferry was the only way to cross between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It shuttled Hong Kong residents for over 120 years until the Cross-Harbour Tunnel opened. How remarkable the ferry runs as a means of transportation even today.
The harbour tour is an excellent choice for touring Victoria Harbour in roughly an hour. National Geographic Traveller names crossing Victoria Harbour as one of the "fifty places of a lifetime." NG Traveller is enthusiastic it seems, though I'd agree if you should add a ride on the water to your list of things to do in Hong Kong at least once.
You'll board the tour at Tsim She Tsui Star Ferry Pier at the tip of the Kowloon Peninsula. A stately double-decker "Shining Star" replica from the 1920's version awaits you. Do beware of over-exuberant Australians who are willing to fist fight over the front seats. Thank goodness this gentleman wasn't involved, though I did witness such sordid behaviour in disbelief.
That said, choose your space, sit back and relax.
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Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a largely self-governing territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong province to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south. Hong Kong is a global metropolitan and international financial centre, and has a highly developed capitalist economy.
Here's a photo of Hong Kong taken from across the river on the Kowloon side. This was taken out of the window of the Ritz-Carlton there when we were doing the tour there. This is one of the photos I submitted to the whole Vanity Fair team for the Oscars thing, but it was rejected! No, that's okay.... they were just selecting one photo from Hong Kong and this was one of a few submissions. They decided on another one that I really like as well.
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