Neon lights near the convention centre at Wan Chai
Wan Chai and Central, Hong Kong, China - 2nd October 2006
On the way to Nanjing in China, Nosher stops off in Hong Kong for a day to sort out a visa. In the morning, there's a chance to hang out at Lan Kwai Fong market near Central, and later on there's time for further wanderings around Central's Mid Levels, as well as a return visit to Victoria Peak via the Peak Tram fernicular railway. Since the last visit, the building at the top of the railway has been rebuilt to house what seems like 50 floors of tat, where it takes about as long going up the escalators as it does getting there in the first place. The view from the top is somewhat hazy, but it's still always worth seeing. The flight to Nanjing was at around 6pm, so there's no time to do anything else.
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Hong Kong harbour and the Bank of China building
The convention centre
Street stalls sell 100%-original DVDs and CDs
DVDs and CDs
A ferry leaves for Kowloon
A boy fishes in the harbour, backlit by neon
More neon lights on the harbour
Desolate retail premises
Jackie Chan stares out from a security grating
An inconveniently-closed convenience store
More barricaded shops
The Bank of China building
Sign-tastic street
Somewhere in the Mid Levels of Central
A flower shop
A ton of air conditioning units
The streets are quiet early in the morning
More apartments
At the top of a steep hill
Tunes, Booze, People: says it all really
A florist opens up
The steeps streets of the Mid Levels
A family walks about
Lan Kwai Fong market from a Mid-Level escalator
Bamboo scaffolding clads a building
A poster explosion
An old dude walks past posters
Pac Man on a 'Game and Fun' sign
A brightly decorated restaurant
A street stall with a pair of plastic breasts
An old dude works a vintage Singer sewing machine
The steps of Central
People wait to cross over the busy street
There's a small tree in a trolley
A wedding takes places on Garden Road
Wedding on the steps of the St. John's Building
Hong Kong garden
The view from Victoria Peak
Tourists on the peak
A derelict house, down below
On the way down
A million escalators in the rebuilt Peak Station
The fernicular Peak Tram hauls up the tracks
A massive queue for jackets at British Dry Cleaners
Wedding photos are still occuring on Garden Road
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Neon lights near the convention centre at Wan Chai
Neon lights near the convention centre at Wan Chai
Hong Kong harbour and the Bank of China building
The convention centre
Street stalls sell 100%-original DVDs and CDs
DVDs and CDs
A ferry leaves for Kowloon
A boy fishes in the harbour, backlit by neon
More neon lights on the harbour
Desolate retail premises
Jackie Chan stares out from a security grating
An inconveniently-closed convenience store
More barricaded shops
The Bank of China building
Sign-tastic street
Somewhere in the Mid Levels of Central
A flower shop
A ton of air conditioning units
The streets are quiet early in the morning
More apartments
At the top of a steep hill
Tunes, Booze, People: says it all really
A florist opens up
The steeps streets of the Mid Levels
A family walks about
Lan Kwai Fong market from a Mid-Level escalator
Bamboo scaffolding clads a building
A poster explosion
An old dude walks past posters
Pac Man on a 'Game and Fun' sign
A brightly decorated restaurant
A street stall with a pair of plastic breasts
An old dude works a vintage Singer sewing machine
The steps of Central
People wait to cross over the busy street
There's a small tree in a trolley
A wedding takes places on Garden Road
Wedding on the steps of the St. John's Building
Hong Kong garden
The view from Victoria Peak
Tourists on the peak
A derelict house, down below
On the way down
A million escalators in the rebuilt Peak Station
The fernicular Peak Tram hauls up the tracks
A massive queue for jackets at British Dry Cleaners
Wedding photos are still occuring on Garden Road