Hongkong#5: Hop-on & Hop-off City Tour by double decker bus.

This unique hop-on hop-off double-deck bus tour allows tourists to see all of Hong Kong’s highlights with ease and interesting!

Hop-off at any of the stops along the route and explore the siates at your leisure using a provided map and then you can hop-on at the next bus stop. Or you can stay on the bus during the whole trip… just to watch the scenes along the road!

You can walk to see the famed Stanley Market, or the fishing village of Aberdeen. Your 24- or 48-hour ticket grants you access to various sites as soon as you leave the bus.

To get back, you can keep on sitting the next bus to discover other places of interest or stay on the bus for the whole trip.

Tourists on these dougle-decked busses are mostly foreigners who don’t have enough time to visit interesting places of Hongkong.

It’s a quite experience to hop-on and hop-off the tourist busses but the tickets are a bit more expensive anyway!

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From the upper deck you’ll see interesting places around the city or walk to see for yourself at the hop-off stop.

Pagoda

Churh

Two-deck-busses

People walking across the street

Museum

Street walkers

Waiting for signal to cross the street

Various kind of bus

Differnt colors of bus

Traffic on a narrow street

Narrow street against tall buldings

A taxi waiting at the red light

An over-pass ahead

Traffic at the red light

A bus stop

Sloppy road ahead

Road signs

Kowloon & Wan Chai

 Skyscrapers

Hop-on & Hop-off Guide to explore the city

Routes to explore the City

Tourists can follow the guide through earphone

Enjoy the city tour!

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Hongkong #4: Sail Victoria Harbor on the Dukling junk

“Sunday morning, up with the lark
I think I'll take a walk in the park
Hey, hey, hey, it's a beautiful day…”

(Beautiful Sunday)

In fact, we didn’t take a walk in the park on Sunday morning but, in fact, a sailing tour in Victoria Harbor by Dukling, a traditional Chinese red-sail junk boat formerly used for fishing, with nearly 70 years of history.

Since Hongkong was mainly a fishing harbor in the old days, these Chinese junk boats are an indispensable part of Hongkong’s history. Therefore, Dukling has naturally become the icon of Hongkong.

Once a fishing boat, Dukling now sails across the renowned Victoria Harbor as a sightseeing cruise and provides boat tours to both tourists and Hongkong locals.

During the boat cruise, not only can visitors enjoy the stunning views of the Victoria Harbor but can also listen to the commentary to learn more about Hongkong history and fishermen culture.

There are many “taxi-cruises” to sail around the harbor but Dukling remains the best and also the most expensive one. Up till now, Dukling has welcomed more than 100,000 guests on board.

While waiting for Dukling to pickup around 10 guests, we had a chance to discover Victoria Harbor’s scene and a large number of people gathering around the place.

The atmosphere in the harbor was quite wonderful and relaxing with tourists and cruise passengers in an ideal afternoon without rain in the focasted thunderstorm weather.

An interesting & beautiful afternoon for tourists in Hongkong!

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My daughter in front of the ticket booth

Statue of Bruce Lee (Lý Tiệu Long), the famous HK movie star

Stop the kungfu... I'm too old for you!

My son-in-law

Victoria Harbor scene

There are many means of cruising the harbor

Taxi-cruise

Dukling arrives at the bakground of Hongkong

Against the skyline of Hongkong

Here comes the Dukling Chinese junk boat!

The Dukling junk boat

Dukling is ready to pick-up tourists

It's just a small junk

With one of the Dukling crew

We are onboard of the Dukling

With my daughter

The red shirt man in the right is one of the crew

With traditional hats we play the role of ancient HK fishermen...

The old man and the sea!

An old fisherman

Fisherman with souvenirs bought onboard the boat

An old sailor on the fishing junk

She looks happy onboard

On the old junk against the backgound of modern HK

He enjoys the cruise

Sunset viewed from the junk

HK at sunset

Harbor’s view from the junk

Harbor’s view from the junk

Harbor’s view from the junk

Harbor’s view from the junk

An old sailor looks back to the past

Last photograph of the junk

The sail turned red when returning to the harbor

Bye bye the Dukling sail boat!

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