I thought it was about time I posted some photos of where I live, I hope you all like them. In the next few days, I hope to upload some shots that I've taken around other spots in Asia over the past year, and a few London and NYC shots from last years trips. Also over the next few weeks I will try and take more photos of the more interesting buildings around the HK island and Kowloon areas.


An early evening view from my apartment (IFC in the distance left)
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/cb1053dd.jpg

View of Times Square and Leighton Hill apartment complex during the daytime with the Happy Valley racecourse in the foreground
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/79a4a7e1.jpg

Getting ready for the next race
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/c43624ef.jpg

Racing in action
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/ee603d94.jpg

My apartment building is the tall one in the foreground
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/186f9544.jpg

Start of the handover day fireworks in July
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/3e45c812.jpg

Looking east from Causeway Bay towards North Point
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/cdc1ad1b.jpg

Looking west from Causeway Bay towards central
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/f4df2188.jpg

Same shot looking east at sunset
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/3e7e6dcf.jpg

Sunset over HK Harbor
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/35dd9dc7.jpg

Central and Adimralty at night
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/74b80c2f.jpg

Christmas lights on the buildings
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/2a83f0be.jpg

The lights of Wan Chai
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/5f7b4915.jpg

The view from The Peak
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/4a8b0187.jpg

Parklands apartment complex
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/f3cbd9c7.jpg

Hole in the building allows the dragon to the water. Apartment complex in Repulse Bay.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/59e5e5c4.jpg

Buddist Temple and a curved apartment building in Repluse Bay
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/2524efcb.jpg

Hong Kong island from the Mui Wo ferry
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/fa992fe4.jpg

Kowloon with HK island behind
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/76d3d24a.jpg

Flying past the old Kai Tak runway
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/b97ae0d9.jpg

They use all the space they can in HK
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/a283b714.jpg

The view south from HK island along Repulse Bay Rd
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/54ccd2fe.jpg

Known as the short sharp peak, a hell of a hike in the New Territories
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/f8043ca0.jpg

Freshwater Bay, HK island
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Shots/ede1a444.jpg

Wow, these are some of the best pitures I have seen on this site. Well done, you have a terrific view, I would love to be able to see the races like that from my balcony. Love some of the intresting buildings, like the curved apartments, and also the xmas lights.

I have been lucky enough to visit HK on a couple of occasions and it is such a great place (notice my avatar). I was there with the Australian Navy in the early 90's, our ship berthed at HMS Tamar, which was near the Star Ferry terminal. You can see the old Prince of Wales barracks building on the extreme right of your xmas lights photo.

Couple of questions, are the local people happier with the situation now then when it was British, when I was there, it seemed they would have prefered to remain as they were rather than again be part of China. I notice you have handover day fireworks, but is that something that people really celebrate? There was so much talk back then about people emigrating to Canada/Australia/UK/US before the handover.

What are the unusual oval shapes in the soccer pitches at Happy Valley?

What is the Kai Tak land, especially the old runway used for now?

Do they still have lots of Brit/Aussie style bars like Mad Dogs, the Kangaroo bar, Ned Kellys, Delanys, Joey Bananas, White Stag, Boris Yeltsins, etc?

What are the unusual oval shapes in the soccer pitches at Happy Valley?

What is the Kai Tak land, especially the old runway used for now?

Do they still have lots of Brit/Aussie style bars like Mad Dogs, the Kangaroo bar, Ned Kellys, Delanys, Joey Bananas, White Stag, Boris Yeltsins, etc?

I don't see no unusual oval shapes. :D

Kai Tak is still awaiting redevelopment. There's been a lot of debate recently about what the site should be used for. The plans have changed quite a few times now.

I saw quite a few Australian bars around Hong Kong while I was over there, particularly in Tsim Sha Tsui.

I love Hong Kong - one of the greatest cities in the world. Everyone must go there at least once.

Oh - nice pics too

I went a few times in the mid and late 90's. I actually worked their as a uni student from what is now MWH. Offices were in the Times Square Building which was a 10mins walk from where i was staying on the eastern side of the happy valley race course - other side from where you seem to be.

I also went there specially for the Hand over in 97

One day i will scan and post my pics. No promises though ;)

Wow, these are some of the best pitures I have seen on this site. Well done, you have a terrific view, I would love to be able to see the races like that from my balcony. Love some of the intresting buildings, like the curved apartments, and also the xmas lights.

I have been lucky enough to visit HK on a couple of occasions and it is such a great place (notice my avatar). I was there with the Australian Navy in the early 90's, our ship berthed at HMS Tamar, which was near the Star Ferry terminal. You can see the old Prince of Wales barracks building on the extreme right of your xmas lights photo.

Couple of questions, are the local people happier with the situation now then when it was British, when I was there, it seemed they would have prefered to remain as they were rather than again be part of China. I notice you have handover day fireworks, but is that something that people really celebrate? There was so much talk back then about people emigrating to Canada/Australia/UK/US before the handover.

What are the unusual oval shapes in the soccer pitches at Happy Valley?

What is the Kai Tak land, especially the old runway used for now?

Do they still have lots of Brit/Aussie style bars like Mad Dogs, the Kangaroo bar, Ned Kellys, Delanys, Joey Bananas, White Stag, Boris Yeltsins, etc?

The only bar I don't recognize in your list is Ned Kelly's, but all the others are still going. See you spent quite a bit of time in Wan Chai, did you manage to stay out of the velvet curtain bars???:)

The unsual shapes in the center of the race track are for rugby, the square ones are used for football (soccer) and field hockey.

The fireworks are a goverment event, and everyone just goes along for the ride but HK'ers are a funny bunch, it's very business orientated, and in some ways that don't seem to care who is in charge as long as they can still make a buck (it is without a doubt the most capitalist society I have ever lived in), but in other ways they're not to keen on interference from Beijing, witness the pro-democracy marches that occur several times a year.

Thanks for the compliments by the way guys. I'm going stick some other shots I've taken around Asia (plus a few others places) in the near future. I'm also trying to find the time to put together a photo essay of HK buildings (the interesting ones). I hope you enjoy them as much. Thanks again.

Great picutres

Hong Kong was the frist place I ever went to outside of Australia.That was way back in 1991.

All my life i have been obsessed with cities.

Landing in the old Hong Kong airport totally blew my mind.I had never seen so many people living in tall buildings,living so close together.The impression I got from looking out of the bus window from the elevated expessway down at all the streets covered in neon has left an unforgettable,erasable impression in my mind.

I did quite a bit of travelling around Aisa in the early 90s after that.Then Europe in the late 90s and have lived in Japan since 1999.

Only the sheer size and bulk of Tokyo has impressed me more than Hong Kong.But Hong Kong is second and always will be.

Second out of all the major cities ive been to since my first trip abroad in 1991.I cant name them all.I will name just the main cities in the countries ive been to.Alot of them more than once

Sydney(hometown)
London(home for one year)
Paris
Lyon
Berlin
Munich
Rome
Barcelona
Ameterdam
Naples
Vienna
Prague
Rotterdam
Frankfurt
Endburough(cant spell it)
Dublin
Istambul
Athens
New York
Boston
Toronto
Montreal
Washington DC
Osaka(home for 7 years)
Beijing
Seoul
Shanghai
Canton
Bangkok
Singapore
Auckland
Wellington
Adelaide
Perth
Brisbane
Melbourne

But Hong Kong and Tokyo are the two cities that never leave my imagination as the planet's most striking metropolisis.