Tag Archives: hong kong

HK by night

The view across from Kowloon at night, we were waiting for the light show (which is so-so), but this view is just amazing. Didn’t have a tripod (or remembered to bring my gorilla pod, grr), so this is just a rocky high iso shot.

Melting in HK

Today has been super hot (although I do think it’s only around 30degreesC), and we walked up hill (plus around a million stairs!) to Hong Kong park. Blaghgh, not fun. Therefore we were made of fail and had to bail on Beckie, we’d planned to go up to the Peak in the evening but we [...]

Bird Garden/Market

Not far from the flower market you can find the Bird Garden/Market where loads of old guys gather to sell and socialise their birds. There were a lot of white-eyes (not sure if they were the japanese white eye? they looked smaller…) and lovebirds in cages of all varieties. Here’s a couple of photos, you [...]

Flower Market

We took a trip to the flower market up near Prince Edward MTR this morning. Located on flower market street (well, what else could they build there??) are loads of flower stores selling the likes of fantastical orchids, bonsai, and random flowers you’ve never seen before. I don’t think they allow photography in some of [...]