Hong Kong 2005

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Hong Kong 01 01 Central and Star Ferry From Kowloon The Central District, the birthplace of modern Hong Kong, used to be called Victoria, after Queen Victoria. It boasted elegant colonial-style buildings with...
Hong Kong 01 02 Central Symphony of Lights From Kowloon The skyscrapers of Hong Kong island glitter and sparkle in a myriad of colours in The Symphony of Lights, a 14-minute spectacular multimedia show combining...
Hong Kong 01 03 Kowloon Peninsula Hotel Lobby The Peninsula Hotel was built in 1928 to serve guests disembarking at the old train station. Guarded by the largest all-Rolls-Royce fleet in the world (13 at...
Hong Kong 01 04 Hong Kong Statue Square Charlotte and Pete pose in Statue Square just like all the Filipino housemaids, nannies, and waitresses, thousands of whom work in Hong Kong and send most of...
Hong Kong 01 05 Central District From Victoria Peak Daytime We took the Peak Tram, the steepest funicular railway in the world, to Victoria Peak (392m), Hong Kong Island's tallest hill. Just 10 minutes walk from the Peak...
Hong Kong 01 06 Central District From Victoria Peak Nighttime Just 10 minutes walk from the Victoria Peak Tram station along Lugard road is this spectacular view of the Central District, the harbour, and Kowloon. It is...
Hong Kong 01 07 Peter with Tian Tan Buddha Behind Lantau is the largest outlying island in Hong Kong, almost twice the size of Hong Kong Island. The Po Lin (Precious Lotus) Monastery is located on western...
Bid Buddha The Po Lin (Precious Lotus) Monastery is located on western Lantau Island, set amid spectacular mountain scenery on the 520-metre-high Ngong Ping plateau, From...
Hong Kong 01 09 Peter With Votive Figures and Po Lin Monastery Downhill Pete and Zig-zag admire the statues of votive servants making offerings to Buddha. You can try and toss some coins into their outstretched hands. The Po Lin...
Hong Kong 01 10 Lantau Mui Wo Beach When we got back to Mui Wo, the ferry port on Lantau, we had lunch and Pete went for a swim on the beach.
Hong Kong 01 11 Airport Opened in 1998 on a man-made island next to Lantau, Hong Kong airport is often rated the best airport in the world.