Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign_HongKong

The old and the new struck me in Hongkong. Maintaining traditional HongKong culture and keeping the old amidst modern and highly Westernized physical features kept me in awe of this small, yet beautiful and colorful island.

Magical feeling during the magic hour before the sun sets down

Quo vadis?

Sun-yat Sen Trail – Lyndhurst Terrace

At Cafe Coral – chicken in glutinous rice wrapped in a big, lotus leaf?

Beauty in Contrast

To see bamboos used in construction even in the most modern of the high rise buildings in Hong Kong surprised me because in our country where bamboos grow in abundance, bamboos are rarely used. Coconut lumber, and now because of practicality and cost efficiency they say, iron bars are used.

Strike at HSBC

Heritage-1881

[Photos were taken last February 2012]

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