Saturday, October 20, 2007

Visitor Information Services

You may wonder if you can get a Hong Kong map for tourist or having information of tourist route in Hong Kong. Although you can go online to check the most update information (for example, visiting our blog), but maybe you are not bring your notebook computer with you, or you didn't find an Internet Cafe. Then you can go to the Visitor Information Services Centre operated by the Hong Kong Tourism Board.

You can find a series of leaflet about Hong Kong, maps for shopping, hiking and traveling around, information about racecourse, theme parks etc. Moreover, you can get a visitor's kit for you to design you own travel route.

The locations of the service centres are:

Hong Kong International Airport 1
Transfer Area E2 (7am - 11pm daily)
Web kiosk for tourist information available 24 hours

Hong Kong International Airport 2
Buffer Halls A and B, Arrivals Level, Terminal 1 (7am - 11pm daily)
Web kiosk for tourist information available 24 hours

Hong Kong Island
Near Exit F, Causeway bay MTR Station (8am - 8pm daily)

Kowloon
Star Ferry Concourse, Tsim Sha Tsui (8am - 8pm daily)

Lo Wu
Arrival Hall, 2/F, Lo Wu Terminal Building (8am-6pm daily)

Visitor Hotline (multilingual)
+852 25081234



Friday, October 19, 2007

Hong Kong style wedding invitation cards


In Hong Kong, the period of October - December is a peak season for MARRIAGE. Many Hong Kong grooms and brides like to have their big days during this period. (In Chinese wordings, we call marriage as "close the sky window"). This is a symbol of good luck in Chinese culture.


source: http://chanelkelvin.com
This is my friend, Chanel & Kelvin's wedding website. Their took gorgeous wedding photos. Take a look and sign the guestbook to bless them, thank you ;)

Just last week, I received 2 wedding banquet invitation cards from my friends. I expect to receive one or two in coming weeks. :)

Here shows 2 invitation cards I received recently and the one I hand-made by myself in my wedding.

The leftmost one is my masterpiece.

You may discover there is a Chinese word printed on all the card. Can you find it? Yes, it is "double-happiness", "喜喜".





Red and Gold are lucky colors in Chinese culture, so you NEVER find a white, blue or black wedding cards because they are sad colors.

Here are the close-up.
The bride is my wife, the groom of course me. :>

Tai Mei Tuk and Plover cove reservoir

Tai Mei Tuk is a famous outdoor recreation site in Hong Kong. It is located in the Plover Cove Country Park.


This is one of the little boat wharf. You may take a boat or enjoy your fishing time here.






There are many public BBQ sites and BBQ shops around Tai Mei Tuk.








If you don't like BBQ, you would attracted by the different restaurants. There a number of HK style restaurants, western style and even Thai food.







Plover cove reservoir is the second large reservoir in Hong Kong. It is enowned for its magnificent main dam. Measuring near 2km in length and some 24 hectares in area, it is Hong Kong's longest dam. It is also the world's first "reservoir in the ocean".





People enjoy riding bicycle while some of them like to walk on the dam. You would also see a lot of people fishing and lot of kite flying on the sky.







Somethings you should know and keep it mind. He did ride fast. Look out!








Remember to bring your camera and feed the battery. It is one of the great position watch sunset.




Transport: Bus 75K from Tai Po Market KCR Station

For more information, please find it here.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Hong Kong @ YouTube

YouTube, the famous video sharing community site, is now launching a Hong Kong edition, in order to let Hong Kong people to share more there. The new channel is mostly in Chinese character. However, the clips upload to the Hong Kong edition are also found at the international edition of YouTube.

Moreover, the Hong Kong Tourism Board is currently running a channel on YouTube, in order to provide clips to promote Hong Kong.

It is recommend to view those video clips and feel the best of Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Reality Channel is at http://www.youtube.com/hongkong

Moreover, our blog is also having a channel there, you may find some video clips there at http://www.youtube.com/hktour