2013 - OCEANIA - HONG KONG 2

Mon 23 May 2005

Still in Hong Kong,

I had some time in the evening to stroll along the Avenue of the Stars & watch all the people posing with the Stars.

The famous light show is impressive but I am not close enough to the sound effects so it is a bit like watching TV without the sound.

The lovely Niki has seen it all before..

Today I have an Octopus card to get me anywhere & I head out from Kowloon by bus making for Shek O on the south coast of Hong Kong island. The bus takes a totally unexpected route by heading due east, as expected, but then north, then West & then south.

So I am going round the western tip of Hong Kong. Very narrow roads that twist up & up & up. High rises all the way.

I get to Aberdeen fishing village which has a very unsavoury reputation so I am tempted to get off but it looks like a concrete jungle so I stay on. A guy that evening was raving about what a great place Aberdeen was to visit - oh well.

The bus carries on around the coast & I get off the bus just before Stanley & walk down the hill to the promenade. This reminds me a bit of Spain.

All English pubs & fish & chip shops but just beyond is this tiny beach.

& this row of houses fronting the beach. I get talking to one of the residents who lives in one of them who tells me she is a model from Germany & she just might, be but I don't get her name or her photo, silly boy.

I get another bus & head for Shek O. A great ride with lots of nice views of the coast.

I hear english, english being spoken on the bus & it's a couple from Southern england somewhere. We chat about nothing for a while. They are heading to Shek O cos they heard about it on-line.

I am here cos I like the name.

Shek O is a very nice little village, & practically empty of people. Just about all Chinese that are here.

It does have one of the prettiest temples I have seen. Must be some cash here..

Great looking outfit...

& more Chinese new year - will it ever end?

And a grand sweep of a beach. Not something that first comes to mind when thinking of Hong Kong. Going by the life guard huts, they must get a crowd here sometimes. The changing facilities are great. Nice & clean.

More posers..

Then it's a bite to eat & a drink of something I know not what, but not at Mcdonalds, & back on the bus.

No idea where I was after a while but this is in the far east end & it has these very narrow trams so I hop aboard one of those that's heading in the right direction - west.