Category: Hong Kong
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Walking a Tight Rope
Hong Kong is a crowded city and a popular tourist destination. Tourists are welcomed here but there’s one group that’s getting a cold shoulder from some of the local residents who have described them as “invading locusts.” Business owners love them because they spend, spend, spend their yuans on luxury goods to take advantage of…
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HongKong Highlights
We walked the route of the Wisdom Path during our visit to the Big Buddha complex on Lantau Island recently. We’re probably not much wiser but it is a very reflective place and soothing to the soul. Doesn’t sound like Hong Kong does it? This city is throbbing with activity day and night. We were…
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Birds of a feather
I spent part of Mother’s Day photographing birds in an aviary right in the heart of Hong Kong. You feel like you’ve just entered a tropical rainforest when you get there. The Edward Youde Aviary named after a China scholar and former governor, has over 150 species of Asian birds. A suspended bridge with viewing…
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“Get thee to a nunnery…”
We weren’t exactly following Hamlet’s exhortation to Ophelia, when we took our visitor Victoria Vuletich to the Nan Lian Garden/Chi Lin Nunnery in Hong Kong’s Diamond Hill area in mid April. But we all discovered how beautiful and restful this Tang dynasty style Chinese garden and monastery complex is. It’s in fact a lovely green…
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Sai Kung Sunday
Buying seafood direct from the fishermen is a weekend ritual in Sai Kung, an idyllic peninsula in the eastern part of the New Territories. If you want fresh seafood say shellfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns, sea cucumbers or fish, just place your money in the plastic pail and lower it to the boat waiting on the…
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Tree Stories: The Red Kapok and “Feng Shui” Camphor
Just outside our apartment building grows a lovely (and to us) a most unusual tree. When we first arrived, it had what looked to us to be small hard fruit and very few leaves. In mid February, what we thought was fruit turned out to be woody flower buds and they started blooming – a…
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Views
View from Mt. Lantau Posts with verses from the heart sutra
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The Big Buddha
Our elder daughter Sonia visited us for a week in mid-March and we showed her many of the places we’ve enjoyed in Hong Kong. We also included new visits to unexplored sites. One such place was a trip to Lantau Island to see the Big Buddha – it is reputed to be the tallest…
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Two Walks
Last week we traveled two hours to the eastern-most extremity of Hong Kong Island to a place called Shek O. The rocky coastal scenery reminded us so much of Acadia Park in Maine! Hong Kong is a great mix of big city and rugged wild beauty. The bus ride to Shek O was hair-raising to…
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