Temple Street (By Edward)

Have you ever heard about Temple Street? Temple Street is another big badgers' market located in Yau Ma Tei which near the MTR station. The location is easy to find and convenient. Temple Street is totally different from ladies market. Let's move on to see the differences in Temple Street.

In Temple Street, many badgers mainly sell the Chinese traditional things such as jade article, Buddist image and special mahjong or some Hong Kong represestative things such as key holder with the beautiful image in Hong Kong. If you have any interest on these kind of things, you should visit there.

In the middle of Temple Street, there is a rest garden for you to take a rest in your trip. Inside the garden, there is a Tin Hau Temple. But it is usually closed for sightseeing only.

If you want to foreknow your life and your future about your job prospects, love, fade and family, here are many stall with related knowledge on Chinese traditional or angur with tarot. Therefore, Temple Street is a special market with special elements that you should visit.

Wish you have a nice trip for visiting Temple Street and hope you enjoy those elements. Thank you for your attention.

Golden Bauhinia Square ( By Kelvin)

  Golden Bauhinia Square is built outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai. It is a landmark of Hong Kong because it is a symbol of the return of the former British colony to the People's Republic of China, and the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

Nowadays, many tourists go there for taking photos. Besides that, the tourists or you may also enjoy a flag-raising ceremony. This ceremony will be having on 7:50am everyday. No doubt, many tourists will go there for the ceremony.

Video of the ceremony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kffDeuykRk

If you want to know more about this attraction and ceremony, you may go to the Hong Kong Tourism Board website at http://www.discoverhongkong.com/usa/attractions/hk-golden-bauhinia-flag-raising.html, and there is also a  virtual tour panorama for you~

Enjoy yourself!

Kowloon City (By Kelvin)

No doubt, Hong Kong is a cosmopolitan and diversified food paradise. This reputation can be proved by Kowloon City absolutely! In there, you may find  many types of restaurants such as Thai, Vietnamese, Taiwanese.



  Besides that, the easy of accessibility is high! It means the tourists or you can arrive there by a lot of types of transportation such as bus, minibus. Easy to go, many to eat!

  Kowloon City is one of my favourite Hong Kong attractions because I can find a wide range of restaurants! Absolutely! Thai food is my love one! Let's share some photos about my delicious dinner with you !









This Thai beer is suggested! It's really good and better than some brands I think!

After finishing the dinner, and that's a dessert time. I've gone with my friends in a dessert shop. It is indisputable that the dessert is sweet and delicious! And the photos below are our dessert! The looks are also good!




I've a great time and a nice night there absolutely!

Certainly, you may have an unforgetable and great experience from there! Let's go and enjoy the life!

PS: You may also find some "interesting" fruits in Kowloon City! Yes! That's fruits! Maybe you will ask a question is that, why the fruits can be interesting? Let's read the pictures below and you may get the answer!

 <<It is a really really BIG SIZE pumpkin!!! << There is another one also! How amazing<<That's a SQUARE-SHAPED watermelon! And according to the owner of the shop, this watermelon is good as a present to your friends! Wonderful!

Hong Kong Railway Museum (By David)

This attraction locate at Tai Po Hui, you can go here by the MTR.

The old Tai Po Market Station opened at 1913 and closed at 1983 due to the electrification of railway services, after that, this station reconstructed to be the Hong Kong Railway Museum.

You don't need to pay for entry fee. Instead, you need to pay your energy to climb this staircase.

If you come here at Tuesdays and some particular public holidays, you will be disappointed......

The first diesel locomotive (No. 51) arrived in Hong Kong at 1955. He is 55 years old now~!!

His name is called "SIR ALEXANDER". This name was come from the Governor of Hong Kong.

Another shot of No. 51.

The whole view of old Tai Po Market Station.

The signpost.

The Booking Office, tickets were sold 20 minutes before the train departure time.

What a nice Chinese style building!!

Station Manager's office in old days...

Let's guess what are they~~ Any ideas???

This is the answer!!

If you want to know the facilities in the Booking Office and the duties of Station Manager, you can find your answer at here.

Logos of railway operators in Hong Kong...

Locomotives in the past...

You can see the old railway system map and the timetable in this room.

Notice Broad

Have you tried to walk on the track??

Let's go onto the engineering coach!

Go to the next compartment then...

The third-class compartment with wooden seats......

The appearance of the engineering coach as well as the third-class compartment... 

If you were a richman, you could travel on the first class.

It was quite comfortable when you sit on the leather seats.

This is the luggage compartment.

 

Here is the ordinary-class at 1974.

The steam locomotive

 This is......

Actually, I don't know what it is=.=

In the past, you were required to take about 1 hour from Kowloon to Shenzhen and there were included 7 stations.

The end of your museum trip, let's take the MTR back to your home.