Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Victoria Harbour
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Pre Hong Kong & Macau trip | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Comic Avenue | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Victoria Harbour | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Avenue of Star | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - Wong Tai Sin & Australia Dairy Co | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - Sheung Wan, Central, Wanchai, Clearwater Bay | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - The Peak | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Tim Ho Wan | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Ap Lei Chau Outlet | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 4 - Macau | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 5 - Hong Kong and home
Plan for the day : Tour Tsim Sha Tsui (尖沙咀) and walk around until my leg want to break.
Main venue : Avenue of Star(星光大道)， Victoria Harbour(維多利亞港), Harbour City(海港城), Comic Avenue(漫畫星光大道), Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower(尖沙咀鐘樓)
How to go : To go Victoria Harbour, from the MRT station exit at L6 and then walk towards 1881 Heritage direction. Follow the road till the end and you will reach a small round about full of mini buses. The Star Ferry Pier is here. And by now, you should see the sea. Walk to the promenade and find a nice spot.
After finish my walk at comic avenue, I walk around Tsim Sha Tsui till I reach Harbour City mall. Getting lost in with direction and spending some time in some of the shop doing unnecessary shopping of skin care product in Sasa. I wonder why without me noticing, I have bought RM 600 worth of skin care product and the sales girl is not really that pretty or my cup of tea either. Anyway, shop in Hong Kong is mainly pharmarcy, skincare or beauty product, jewellery shop, dried seafood herb shop and branded shop. For Pharmacy, mainly it is Manning (HK version of Guardian), Watson. Skincare and beauty product shop is mainly Sasa, Bonjour, Colormix, Angel Cosmetic and Aster. Jewellery shop is mainly Chow Tai Fook, Luk Fook, Chow Sin Sheng, Jin Sui Lian, and many more. Dried seafood herb shop is opening many shop here. Main things sold are things like sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin, scallop, bird nest etc. And lastly branded shop is selling things like Channel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, etc almost all the famous brand has a shop here.
While getting lost here, I understand why the Hong Kong shop owner change their attitude. In the past, they will look down on anyone that do not dress nicely to enter the shop. Especially tourist from China Mainland. But in recent years, China Mainland tourist is the main source of business for the shop owner. While shipping in Sasa, I seen a chinese tourist drag a luggage bag that is big enough to hide a normal adult in it. Open the luggage bag and start to order the sales assistance to fill it up with a list of item she want to purchase. There is also long queue of people outside of shop such as Louis Vuitton. The way they wish to enter the shop, it makes me wonder if LV is doing a 50% sale. But it is not. Just that these China Mainland tourist is so super rich.
Ok, enough rambling about how these people spend money to buy a HKD 30000 handbag as though it is just HKD 300.
While walking at Harbour City mall, I pass by this Le Cafe de Joel Robuchon. For anyone who wonder what so special about this cafe, it is one of the cafe open by a famous Michelin chef Joel Robuchon.
More info about him at here
A simple cafe latte. The art work is not that impressive though. The art work at my neighbour table is much more impressive. But too bad, I can't thick face and ask to take the photo of that coffee.
A simple chestnut tart with a burberry on top. I like this tart as it is not too sweet and too hard to cut. A very simple combination but enough for a simple high tea.
The Cafe also have a very nice scenery view of the Tsim Sha Tsui pier. As seen above, it is almost sunset. Which means I need to quickly go to nearby Victoria Harbour to look for a good spot and enjoy the famous
"A Symphony of Lights" show.
Tsim Sha Tsui clock tower. A tower that has stand for a long time at this Victoria Harbour. I remember see this tower in some HK movie or TV Drama.
Found a nice spot at Victoria Harbour. The day is still early. Less crowd to fight for places. But I think better to sit here and patiently wait for the show
Took some photo while waiting, the red Chinese Vessel is a ship use by the Hong Kong Tourism Board to promote tourism. Ship name 鸭灵号. If you are interested for a ride, please check the info here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duk_Ling
The show started. It is hard to actually see the whole show. As some building is behind me. And some is on my left, or right. I heard some expert tourist say this spot is better. Because more building particpating the show at Hong Kong Island. Less building at Tsim Sha Tsui here.
After finish the show, feeling is "That is all?". Yes, the show ended just like that. I don't know what am I expecting before I come to Hong Kong. But I sure feel it should be something more. Maybe if there is some fireworks, it will be better. I guess.....
Anyway, I have put a ticked to a places that I have visited before. Seen this beautiful night view.
There is a lot of fancy shop in Tsim Sha Tsui at night. But I am a bit tired now. Off to the last location of the night, Avenue of Star, before I head back to hotel.
Pre Hong Kong & Macau trip | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Comic Avenue | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Victoria Harbour | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Avenue of Star | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - Wong Tai Sin & Australia Dairy Co | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - Sheung Wan, Central, Wanchai, Clearwater Bay | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - The Peak | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Tim Ho Wan | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Ap Lei Chau Outlet | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 4 - Macau | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 5 - Hong Kong and home
Plan for the day : Tour Tsim Sha Tsui (尖沙咀) and walk around until my leg want to break.
Main venue : Avenue of Star(星光大道)， Victoria Harbour(維多利亞港), Harbour City(海港城), Comic Avenue(漫畫星光大道), Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower(尖沙咀鐘樓)
How to go : To go Victoria Harbour, from the MRT station exit at L6 and then walk towards 1881 Heritage direction. Follow the road till the end and you will reach a small round about full of mini buses. The Star Ferry Pier is here. And by now, you should see the sea. Walk to the promenade and find a nice spot.
After finish my walk at comic avenue, I walk around Tsim Sha Tsui till I reach Harbour City mall. Getting lost in with direction and spending some time in some of the shop doing unnecessary shopping of skin care product in Sasa. I wonder why without me noticing, I have bought RM 600 worth of skin care product and the sales girl is not really that pretty or my cup of tea either. Anyway, shop in Hong Kong is mainly pharmarcy, skincare or beauty product, jewellery shop, dried seafood herb shop and branded shop. For Pharmacy, mainly it is Manning (HK version of Guardian), Watson. Skincare and beauty product shop is mainly Sasa, Bonjour, Colormix, Angel Cosmetic and Aster. Jewellery shop is mainly Chow Tai Fook, Luk Fook, Chow Sin Sheng, Jin Sui Lian, and many more. Dried seafood herb shop is opening many shop here. Main things sold are things like sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin, scallop, bird nest etc. And lastly branded shop is selling things like Channel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, etc almost all the famous brand has a shop here.
While getting lost here, I understand why the Hong Kong shop owner change their attitude. In the past, they will look down on anyone that do not dress nicely to enter the shop. Especially tourist from China Mainland. But in recent years, China Mainland tourist is the main source of business for the shop owner. While shipping in Sasa, I seen a chinese tourist drag a luggage bag that is big enough to hide a normal adult in it. Open the luggage bag and start to order the sales assistance to fill it up with a list of item she want to purchase. There is also long queue of people outside of shop such as Louis Vuitton. The way they wish to enter the shop, it makes me wonder if LV is doing a 50% sale. But it is not. Just that these China Mainland tourist is so super rich.
Ok, enough rambling about how these people spend money to buy a HKD 30000 handbag as though it is just HKD 300.
While walking at Harbour City mall, I pass by this Le Cafe de Joel Robuchon. For anyone who wonder what so special about this cafe, it is one of the cafe open by a famous Michelin chef Joel Robuchon.
More info about him at here
A simple cafe latte. The art work is not that impressive though. The art work at my neighbour table is much more impressive. But too bad, I can't thick face and ask to take the photo of that coffee.
A simple chestnut tart with a burberry on top. I like this tart as it is not too sweet and too hard to cut. A very simple combination but enough for a simple high tea.
The Cafe also have a very nice scenery view of the Tsim Sha Tsui pier. As seen above, it is almost sunset. Which means I need to quickly go to nearby Victoria Harbour to look for a good spot and enjoy the famous
"A Symphony of Lights" show.
Tsim Sha Tsui clock tower. A tower that has stand for a long time at this Victoria Harbour. I remember see this tower in some HK movie or TV Drama.
Found a nice spot at Victoria Harbour. The day is still early. Less crowd to fight for places. But I think better to sit here and patiently wait for the show
Took some photo while waiting, the red Chinese Vessel is a ship use by the Hong Kong Tourism Board to promote tourism. Ship name 鸭灵号. If you are interested for a ride, please check the info here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duk_Ling
The show started. It is hard to actually see the whole show. As some building is behind me. And some is on my left, or right. I heard some expert tourist say this spot is better. Because more building particpating the show at Hong Kong Island. Less building at Tsim Sha Tsui here.
After finish the show, feeling is "That is all?". Yes, the show ended just like that. I don't know what am I expecting before I come to Hong Kong. But I sure feel it should be something more. Maybe if there is some fireworks, it will be better. I guess.....
Anyway, I have put a ticked to a places that I have visited before. Seen this beautiful night view.
There is a lot of fancy shop in Tsim Sha Tsui at night. But I am a bit tired now. Off to the last location of the night, Avenue of Star, before I head back to hotel.
Pre Hong Kong & Macau trip | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Comic Avenue | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Victoria Harbour | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Avenue of Star | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - Wong Tai Sin & Australia Dairy Co | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - Sheung Wan, Central, Wanchai, Clearwater Bay | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - The Peak | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Tim Ho Wan | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Ap Lei Chau Outlet | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 4 - Macau | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 5 - Hong Kong and home