UCLA

Graduate Student

Department of Computer Science, UCLA

Joseph D. Kulisics

Kulišić, Кулишић

Hong Kong 2006

I spent the first day checking into Wang Fat Hostel and washing away the travel grime. After checking into the hostel I decided to take a little unguided tour of the hostel's neighborhood, Wan Chai.

• The view west down Hennesey Road near the Causeway MTR station
• The view east down Hennesey Road near the Causeway MTR station
• Shoppers on Hennesey Road
• A silhouette of the hills that form the southern edge of Wan Chai and Central Hong Kong on Hong Kong Island
• Another view east down Hennesey Road
• . . . and another
• The start of a market on Wan Chai Road
• How about some live shrimp?
• Live crabs?
• All kinds of roasted meat?
• A goat's head?
• Live poultry?
• A view down a small street in the market
• The market's abrupt end before the hills
• A soccer game on a concrete field in a Wan Chai playground
• Typical bamboo scaffolding on a building

I spent the morning of the second day wandering around Sheung Wan on the west end of Hong Kong Island.

• Typical bamboo scaffolding on a building
• A view down Ladder Road
• Patrons eat lunch at the food court in the Sheung Wan Market

• A view of the I. M. Pei designed Bank of China Tower
• A Roman Catholic cathedral
• The Hong Kong Government House

• A ring-tailed lemur
• A porcupine
• A enormous, male orangutan
• The main fountains
• A statue of King George VI
• A parrot trying to get out of his cage

• Central as seen on the walk up to the Peak, Shan Teng
• Joseph on the Peak
• Central from the Peak
• Wan Chai and North Point from the Peak
• Inside Peak Tower
• Victoria Gardens
• Inside the funicular going down the hill
• A girl on the funicular
• The view up the funicular tracks

• The Christmas tree in Statue Square
• West Connaught Road near Exchange Square
• West Connaught Road near Exchange Square, again
• The bull statue in Exchange Square

• Hanging coils of incense and an urn
• A boy approaches an altar

• Paterson Road in front of Wang Fat Hostel
• Paterson Road in front of Wang Fat Hostel, again
• Shopping on Paterson Road
• Near the Causeway MTR stop
• Hennesey Road near the Causeway MTR stop
• Lockhart Road near the Causeway MTR stop