The second part to my HK random collection....hope everyone likes them.

Taikoo Shing with One Island East under construction
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Waterfront office buildings and freeway in North Point
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The Harbour Front Landmark Hotel
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Kowloon with Hanoi Rd tower under construction in the middle of the shot
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Hong Kong convention centre
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Langham Place and Christmas tree in Kowloon
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Clock tower in TST
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Central and Admiralty
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Central
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Discovery Bay
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I lived at the Silver Mine Bay Hotel for a month, this was the view from my hotel room. Worse views to wake up to each morning!
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CKC & Bank of China from HK Park
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Late afternoon looking towards Sunset Peak Lantau
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Fountain in HK Park lit up at night
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Not a very good photo because of the haze and smog, but in the distance is Shenzhen....shows just how close the two cities are.
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The Welcome Centre and Wan Chai tower. The Welcome Centre was once HK tallest building.
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Pacific Place and a lit up Bank of China
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Hong Kong from Lantau Island, behind DB, again the haze makes for a difficult shot
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Hang Seng Bank building in Central
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On approach to HK airport, Kowloon in the foreground with HK island in the distance
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Central and Wan Chai from The Peak
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Central from The Peak
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Home, sweet home!

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Ooh, err!

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Wow

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Maybe I'm picky, but I ate at two of the restaurants here so far, and in both cases the food was very very poor for the prices we were paying ($500/person with one glass of wine). I ate at Café de Paris and Zaks - fantastic views, poor food.

I hear Hemmingways (Caribbean) and the Aussie seafood one (forgot the name) are nice though, so might have another try. There are also some more established restaurants like Jaspas, which has great food, but there is not much point in going all the way to Discovery Bay for Jaspas when you can eat Jaspas in TST or Soho, so we decided to the give the more 'established' restaurants a miss.

Like I said though, great views!

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Part%20II/DSC_0019.jpg

Hong Kong?? Oh boy~~~

Maybe I'm picky, but I ate at two of the restaurants here so far, and in both cases the food was very very poor for the prices we were paying ($500/person with one glass of wine). I ate at Café de Paris and Zaks - fantastic views, poor food.

I hear Hemmingways (Caribbean) and the Aussie seafood one (forgot the name) are nice though, so might have another try. There are also some more established restaurants like Jaspas, which has great food, but there is not much point in going all the way to Discovery Bay for Jaspas when you can eat Jaspas in TST or Soho, so we decided to the give the more 'established' restaurants a miss.

Like I said though, great views!

Ha....truth be told deathscar, I hate DB with a passion! To me it was always a place for expats who wanted to pretend that they were not living in HK. To many kids, to many fat balding white guys with young Filipino or Thai wives, crappy restaurants, annoying golf carts zipping around etc etc...not my sort of area at all! But Lantau is a beautiful island and DB was a good spot to go walking from none the less.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/jasondallas/HK%20Part%20II/DSC_0019.jpg

Hong Kong?? Oh boy~~~

Yeah I know; it's a side of HK that unless you had been, you would even consider existed. It's probably one of the most amazing features of this major city that should be promoted, instead they focus on it being a shoppers paradise; pity because the country side in HK is just beautiful and a lot of the territory is designated as country park. Then again maybe it's better left not being promoted, so that the locals and the expats who live there can enjoy its relative seclusion.

I've had this chat with some friends before, and we all agreed that out of the four big financial centres in the world, NYC, London, Tokyo and HK, only HK offers beaches, jungles, mountains within such a short distance of the city centre.....it really is very lucky!

Ha....truth be told deathscar, I hate DB with a passion! To me it was always a place for expats who wanted to pretend that they were not living in HK. To many kids, to many fat balding white guys with young Filipino or Thai wives, crappy restaurants, annoying golf carts zipping around etc etc...not my sort of area at all! But Lantau is a beautiful island and DB was a good spot to go walking from none the less.

It's a good get away place though - bit of a bitch to get to mind (when you're used to zipping around everywhere in 15 minutes anyways!)


I've had this chat with some friends before, and we all agreed that out of the four big financial centres in the world, NYC, London, Tokyo and HK, only HK offers beaches, jungles, mountains within such a short distance of the city centre.....it really is very lucky!

Don't forget Paris - I agree wholeheartedly on your point though. The tourism board doesn't do much on promoting the natural side of HK, which has its good and bad sides I suppose.

^^ The nature side of HK is more promoted by the tourism board now. But the problem is we are lack of trained and knowledgeable tour guide to bring tourists into the wild HK.

It's a good get away place though - bit of a bitch to get to mind (when you're used to zipping around everywhere in 15 minutes anyways!)



Don't forget Paris - I agree wholeheartedly on your point though. The tourism board doesn't do much on promoting the natural side of HK, which has its good and bad sides I suppose.

Very true.

Paris is a big city, but it's not a global financial centre, I just meant the big four, hence the cities I did mention.