Out and About: Macau By Night
On any given weekend, downtown Macau’s party atmosphere is bursting with visitors enjoying local snacks and souvenir shopping. These normally bustling streets look very different after dark. With all the shops […]
Category Archives: Asia
Discovering Old Taipa Village
As Asia’s gambling capital, it would be easy to dismiss Macau as nothing more than Las Vegas of the East, a collection of extravagant but soulless casinos in the former […]
Yim Tin Tsai: Hong Kong’s Little Salt Pan
Regular readers of this site will know that I’m a big fan of exploring abandoned buildings and dilapidated villages – and Hong Kong has a fair number of them in […]
Sharp Peak: The North Ridge
Visible from virtually every corner of Sai Kung peninsula, Nam She Tsim (蚺蛇尖) is a mountain located in the northeastern corner of Sai Kung East Country Park. Also known as Sharp […]
The Tung Chung Peaks: Por Kai Shan and Pok To Yan
This weekend trek was literally close to home in Tung Chung on Lautau Island. Adjacent to the new town development are a number of hills and trails rarely visited by […]
Quarry Bay and Mount Butler
Last week’s hike was a bit of a random one, both in route and purpose. Since my return to Hong Kong I’ve only been out hiking once, and that was […]
So Long, 2016. Hello 2017.
Well, 2016 was certainly interesting. So many things happened around the world that made this year especially memorable, and for many people it’s a year they’d rather forget. Political turmoil […]
Stanley’s Christmas Market
Despite the colourful decorations adorning the office towers and shopping malls, it doesn’t always feel like Christmas in Hong Kong. Maybe it’s the stretch of unusually warm weather we’ve been […]
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