Post your Hong Kong Pics !

[Skybean]

[drflower]

I was in Hong Kong at the beginning of January (2005). It got very cold, which was good because all the fog disappeared and we had bright, sunny days. Here's a few pics from then:

Hong Kong Island












Kowloon - Tsim Sha Tsui










There's more photos of Hong Kong at my website, plus photos from Guangzhou and Shunde.

[Skybean]

Beautiful.. Thank you for sharing.
The smog really cleared up when the temperatures started falling.

Dec 2004

[plupp-plupp]

I was in Hong Kong over New Year's too. Most of these pictures are from my hotel room on Hong Kong Island since I was ill and it was very coold as Skybean said. The second and third are from my cousin's appartment maybe a km away. I put small versions here to save you some bandwith. You can see them and some more in fullsize through this page.

[Skybean]

Great.
I submitted this photo to the Urban Photo Contest... *wink *wink

[hyacinthus]

Taken on 27 May 2005

[hyacinthus]

Waiting for MTR to Wong Tai Sin on 28 May 2005

[hyacinthus]

In MTR

[HKT]

Wow, nice pics!

How was your trip in HK? Also, how were the reactions of the passengers when you took photos inside the MTR?..

[hyacinthus]

Originally Posted by HKT

Wow, nice pics!

How was your trip in HK? Also, how were the reactions of the passengers when you took photos inside the MTR?..

Thank you. I'll post more pictures later.

Apart from the rainy/cloudy days when I was there, it was a wonderful trip I got a Nikkor 10.5mm fish-eye lens for my birthday present! Yippeee! At HK3950, it is considered a very good price (but no warranty cos it's a grey set). Food was nice! (Will post some food pics too) Not too salty for my taste. But, I think the dim sum I had was so-so. Maybe, went to the wrong one. I am a big dim sum fan. btw, bean sprouts taste sweet in HK.

I was pleasantly surprised that most are able to speak to me in either Mandarin or English. So happy cos I can't speak/understand Cantonese. Have to ask my friend to translate sometimes. Being a non-smoker, I was glad most places that we went were smoke free! Cool!

The connection/service between airport and the hotel which I stayed was good. No problem and was fast.

Wanted to go BOC's viewing gallery... but, I was so blur. Went to BIFC instead and asked the security (quite good looking ), who was puzzled when I asked where is the observation deck... :P You are working in BIFC, right? hehe...

The passengers? I think they can see I am a tourist. Also, being a girl is so forgiveable, right? Well, no one protested when I took the pictures. btw, I didn't take it sneakily... was holding a DSLR so they know I was taking pictures.

In conclusion, I think HK is a tourist-friendly place. More for the local food and up-market kind of shopping.

[hyacinthus]

Some not so common Pictures

[vincent]

Originally Posted by hyacinthus

Thank you. I'll post more pictures later.

Apart from the rainy/cloudy days when I was there, it was a wonderful trip I got a Nikkor 10.5mm fish-eye lens for my birthday present! Yippeee! At HK3950, it is considered a very good price (but no warranty cos it's a grey set). Food was nice! (Will post some food pics too) Not too salty for my taste. But, I think the dim sum I had was so-so. Maybe, went to the wrong one. I am a big dim sum fan. btw, bean sprouts taste sweet in HK.

I was pleasantly surprised that most are able to speak to me in either Mandarin or English. So happy cos I can't speak/understand Cantonese. Have to ask my friend to translate sometimes. Being a non-smoker, I was glad most places that we went were smoke free! Cool!

The connection/service between airport and the hotel which I stayed was good. No problem and was fast.

Wanted to go BOC's viewing gallery... but, I was so blur. Went to BIFC instead and asked the security (quite good looking ), who was puzzled when I asked where is the observation deck... :P You are working in BIFC, right? hehe...

The passengers? I think they can see I am a tourist. Also, being a girl is so forgiveable, right? Well, no one protested when I took the pictures. btw, I didn't take it sneakily... was holding a DSLR so they know I was taking pictures.

In conclusion, I think HK is a tourist-friendly place. More for the local food and up-market kind of shopping.

cool! where are you originally from?
BIFC? u mean 2ifc right?
The security there is chinese i assume?
In the second to last paragraph, are you talking about 2ifc? or somewhere else?

[hyacinthus]

> cool! where are you originally from?
I am from Singapore.

> BIFC? u mean 2ifc right?
think so... should be 2ifc then... The tallest one.

> The security there is chinese i assume?
yep

> In the second to last paragraph, are you talking about 2ifc? or somewhere else?

In MTR. Answering HKT's question.

[Urban Dave]

Amazing pictures! Hope some day I would be able to post some pictures! But it's too far and too expensive to travel to Hong Kong from Spain

[HKT]

Originally Posted by hyacinthus

> cool! where are you originally from?
I am from Singapore.

> BIFC? u mean 2ifc right?
think so... should be 2ifc then... The tallest one.

> The security there is chinese i assume?
yep

> In the second to last paragraph, are you talking about 2ifc? or somewhere else?

In MTR. Answering HKT's question.

Wow, you pics are like professional advertisements. It's also amazed that the little furry thing got your attention.

[hyacinthus]

Originally Posted by Urban Dave

Amazing pictures! Hope some day I would be able to post some pictures! But it's too far and too expensive to travel to Hong Kong from Spain

Thank you Dave.

Save!

I am also thinking of visiting Spain too maybe by 2007. I was so busy with work and my masters in the last 3 years, couldn't find time to travel till this year.

Originally Posted by HKT

Wow, you pics are like professional advertisements. It's also amazed that the little furry thing got your attention.

thanks for the praise

Do you know what are those furry things? What will they morph into? I must be too bored waiting for the tram...

Took 700 over pics... Here're some more...

Wong Tai Sin [Online version here: http://icard.hknet.com/fortune-stick]


More Food

[hkskyline]

Originally Posted by Urban Dave

Amazing pictures! Hope some day I would be able to post some pictures! But it's too far and too expensive to travel to Hong Kong from Spain

I notice a lot of Hong Kong forumers in this board have been to Spain, especially Barcelona, and all of us who have been there have nothing but absolute praise for the city's urban atmosphere. Interestingly, none of us actually flew in from Hong Kong. We all seem to fly into Barcelona from the UK and from continental Europe instead.

Unfortunately, there are no direct flights from Spain to Hong Kong at this time, so it's a bit more inconvenient to connect via another country.

[hyacinthus]

more food... a pity I didn't manage to find curry fishball... otherwise, will take a picture and post it too.



I'll post buses, buildings and street scenes later... zzzz...

[vvill]

man they're some really really nice pictures.
the food looks so gooood! you really know the way to take pictures of foooooood. sorry to hear about the quality of the dim sums though.. it's probably because recently many resturants have lowered the price of dim sums so the quality gets worse as well! try the hotels next time. most of them do really fine proper hk dim sums and they're not expensive either.. (and again, in hk, it's nothing really that big of a deal to go to hotel restaurants..!)

urban dave,
admittedly it's hard to go to hk from spain... and it'll be costly either. probably needa wait till emirates starting new routes serving barcelona and dubai.. then it'll be much more convenient and cheaper either. (don't see there's such a demand for CX to start non-stop flights between barcelona and hk)

i've been to spain twice.. yes. as what hkskyline has said, once was from the uk (ryanair) and the other was from austria. (lauda air)

[hyacinthus]

Thanks vvill.

We went to the Serenade at HK Cultural Centre cos it was recommended in the HK Tourist Guide. Perhaps, we should have gone to our hotel's. Which hotel's Chinese restaurant would you recommend? Is the one at Intercontinental fronting Avenue of Stars good?