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Hollywood Rd. | E | Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter | |
| B | HK-Macau Ferry Terminal | F | Victoria Park | |
| C | Star Ferry | G | Happy Valley Race Course | |
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Connaught Rd. West and Connaught Rd. Central
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Hollywood Rd.
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The Peak
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Central MTR Central (C) a. Lan Kwai Fong b. Central-Mid-levels Escalator c. Pottinger Street d. Li Yuen Street West e. Li Yuen Street East Sheung Wan MTR Sheung Wan (Sw) 1. Man Mo Temple 2. Temples 3. Wing Lok Street |
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Central is the heart of the
Island with some of the most expensive land in the world. There are countless modern skyscrapers
occupied by banks and commercial corporations living side by side with
ancient Temples, old Chinese and British colonial style buildings, local
market places and shopping arcades that make this place an ever-changing kaleidoscope with its own identity.
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Travel on foot along Chater Road to Statue Square
that used to contain a number of statues and where you can still find the war memorial. On the south side is the imposing
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building
(photo below) Bank of China building (photo below). On the east of the square is the
Old Supreme Court (photo
below), no longer used for this purpose but a magnificent piece of colonial
architecture. Spending a few moments to sit around and enjoy the surrounding atmosphere
is highly recommended. Each Sunday the square and the surrounding
streets are filled with thousands of Filipino servants who gather to
meet with their friends, gossip, eat and tell each others news from their
hometown.
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Striking structure, opened in 1989. It was the
tallest building in Hong Kong, but was overtaken by Central Plaza (Wan Chai) in
1992. After this building was completed, the Feng Shui masters were busy working in the
surrounding buildings to find a solution to counter-act the bad Feng Shui this new building created.
(It resembles sharp-points OR knifes pointing to the surrounding buildings.)
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Situated in the front of Statue Square, along
Queen's Rd. Central, stands the most expensive building in the world, cost
about USD1.3 Trillion, 52 storeys high with two bronze lions (Stitt &
Stephen) guarding the main entrance. This smart building is equipped with special computer
controls and set-up enabling the reflection of the sun-light to beam down to the main
hall.
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In front of Des Voeux Road stands a five-storey complex, designed
around a large inner courtyard with a computerized musical fountain in the
center, housing more than 100 shops.
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This is built on reclaimed land site in
1962 opposite to Star Ferry, it consists of
municipal administration offices, concert hall with 1500 seats, exhibition rooms,
rooms for musical recitals, art galleries and restaurants.
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Conveys people between Central (Hong Kong Island) and Tsim Sha Tsui |
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About five minutes walk from MTR, situated
between D'Aguilar Street and Wyndham Street, an extensive area of trendy
wine bars, pubs, clubs and restaurants. When nights falls this place will
be liven up, filled mostly by the younger professionals, both local and
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The 800 meters walkway runs alongside from Jubilee
Street near Connaught Road Central via Central Market, Cochrane
Street, Shelley Street to Mid-Levels, is the world's longest escalator. It
takes the residents of the Mid-levels district down to work in the
mornings and back in the evenings. Nowadays, Shelley Street, Stanley Street and Elging
Street known as "So Ho" food district, offers a wide range of
International restaurants, bars and pubs. |
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two roads are both a no-car zone shopper's paradise, parallel to each other
between Queen's Road Central and Des Voeux Road, so jam-packed with stalls
and shops that the temptation of "come & get me" is hard
to resist.
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Pottinger Street
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This is located on the western side of Queen's
Road Central; it is parallel to D'Aguilar Street and is about five minutes walk from
MTR - Central. The steps are the special feature of this road; the
first part of the road when turning from Queen's Road Central has been
re-laid with concrete steps, but the upper part of the path still has the traditional old-fashioned stone slabs. In the old
days people were carried up the path in sedan
chairs for a fee. (Good old Hong Kong)
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Hong Kong skyline is simply fabulous
that words cannot be describe it. One first has to experience the funicular railway,
the Peak Tram, climbing to 396 meters above sea-level to the summit, slowly witnessing
the spectacular panoramic view opening up. When darkness falls on a
clear day, the skyline twinkles with the neon advertisements
lights, street lights and lights from thousands of buildings, guaranteeing you do not go home
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on the south of Kowloon peninsular. It has crossed the Victoria Harbor in eight minutes for 100
years already, currently upper deck cost about USD0.30 for one way. Operates from 6:30am to 11:30pm.
