Victoria Park

Victoria Park 維多利亞公園

Causeway Rd. (at 1 Hing Fat St.), Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Transit: Tin Hau Station (272 m E)   Island Line

This park is in Causeway Bay. It was named after Queen Victoria and is 

home to her statue (at the main entrance).  

We arrived around 9:30 and we were out of there by 12pm. 

If you want to see everything, get there early! 

Once bus loads of school kids arrived it became a nightmare. 

Christmas images around HK

Landmark building-





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Kwum Yam Shrine @ Repulse Bay beach

The brightly red "Longevity Bridge", next to the shrine. Presumably adds three extra days of life to every person who crosses it.
Longevity Bridge of Kwum Yam Shrine:

Fort Concho tour- San Angelo, TX

http://www.fortconcho.com/

"Fort Concho National Historic Landmark encompasses most of the former army post and includes twenty-three original and restored fort structures. The old frontier army post is now a historic preservation project and museum which is owned and operated by the City of San Angelo, Texas"

Mississippi and NASA

Lunar Lander Exhibit

Photo taken by Gypsy’s Husband  

NASA's Lunar Lander exhibit is located at the Mississippi I-10 Welcome Center in Hancock County, Miss., just west of Bay St. Louis and 45 miles east of New Orleans on I-10 at Exit 2. The exhibit features a 30-foot-tall replica of a Lunar Lander used as a trainer by the Apollo 13 astronauts. Apollo 13 astronaut and Mississippi native Fred Haise left space-boot prints and signature in concrete at the base of the exhibit. http://www.ssc.nasa.gov/sirs/scripts/getxmlfile.pl?id=00-068D-01

http://www.ssc.nasa.gov/public/visitors/ 

Repulse Bay Hotel???

There is "NO" Repulse Bay hotel. In short... back in the day there was one, but it has been torn down and apartment buildings have been built in the hotel's place. 

 The famous building with a hole which is the site of the former Repulse Bay Hotel...

Our 1st trip to Kowloon

We decided to take the Star Ferry over to Kowloon, the Star Ferry also being a first for us. I will talk about the ferry another time. Right now I will write about our first experience in Kowloon.

  Kowloon is different... it has its own life separate from Hong Kong.

Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower, Tsim Sha Tsui

It was a great adventure. We walked off the the ferry into men wanting to sell us watched to suits. It was not anything to alarming, We just walked pass them.  What was our plan? Having a kid helps when it comes to planning... we scope out places to eat, parks and then museums. We ate at the Spaghetti House. Food down, now we need to find the a park. We found Kowloon Park (it really wasn't that difficult to find) and what did we find at the park...Kung Fu fighting and Lion dance performance.

 Preparing for the Lion dance

The Kung Fu and the lion dance lasted for about 2 hours. When it ended we left with the crowd and decided to head home. I started thinking what a cool thing to take our friends and family when they come to visit. I decided to look it up on the Internet to see if this was a one time thing or recurring performance. Guess what....

"The Kung Fu Corner is set up every Sunday from 2:30pm to 4:30 pm at the Sculpture Walk of the Park. Free demonstration of lion/dragon dance and different disciplines of martial arts will be staged and play-in sessions will be organised for visitors."

http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/parks/kp/en/kung_fu_corner.php

Highly recommend taking an afternoon and visit Kung Fu corner!!