There is a Chinese proverb that goes: “It is better to travel ten thousand miles than read ten thousand books.” Once again I took the suggestion literally, packed my stuff (which is not much) and went to an exploration trip in the series of discovering the world’s financial centers. This time my destination was Hong Kong.

1. Hong Kong 2014
Pics from my adventures in the Asia’s World
City
Kristi Rohtsalu
February 2014

2. „It is better to travel ten thousand miles than
read ten thousand books.“
− Chinese proverb
Amsterdam, 22 January 2014:
I’m leaving Europe. Adventure begins.

3. Welcome to Hong Kong!

4. A city that celebrates light...
A Symphony of Lights

5. ... and life
A Sunday night in Victoria Park
The sad story behind: Many of these Indonesian and
Filipino domestic workers are in debt slavery.

6. Where you can follow the crowd...
A major shopping street in Causeway Bay
(I tried to avoid it because it was too crowded.)

7. ... or go on your own...
A hiking trail in New Territories
(On my walk from Tsuen Wan to Tai Po)

8. ...or together with a group of like-minded people
A Saturday leisure hike of
Hong Kong professionals

9. Walk between modern glass buildings...
Warning: Beware of falling bankers!
During my stay, one JP Morgan employee committed suicide in Central.

10. ... or try to get around construction works...
Construction of the coming high-speed rail terminal
next to International Commerce Centre (ICC)

11. ... or use long subway tunnels...
... which are as long as eye can see

12. ... or do shopping while walking...
... Lots of shopping (there are many „streets“ like this)

13. In Hong Kong, one may live
here...
One Island East

14. ... or here...
Tai O (Lantau Island),
the Venice of Hong Kong

15. ... or here...
(NB! Lower housing costs!)
A village in
Lamma Island

16. ... or maybe this way
An unknown person sleeping in an
unused subway entrance

17. If not then some buildings seem to be available
there on Sunset Peak
These buildings were once used by monks.

18. One may be regarded member of a yacht club...
Going to the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club

19. ... or one may grow bananas
A banana field in Lamma Island

20. What a tourist may confuse for a toilet...

21. ... turns out to be a holy place

22. Ready to see how the Year of the Horse arrived?

23. A celebration is also an advertisement:
Ocean Park’s wagon
Chinese New Year: A pic from the Night Parade

24. A celebration is also an advertisement:
Hang Seng Bank’s wagon
Chinese New Year: Another pic from the Night Parade

25. A celebration is also an advertisement:
MTR’s wagon
Chinese New Year: One more pic from the Night Parade

26. Getting busy...
Crowd in a Professional Networking Evening
(7 February 2014)

27. ... with an ambitious
goal...
Climbing to Victoria Peak

28. Looking at the maps...
Just trying to locate my next accommodation

29. ... and taking (photographing) notes...
... to memorize when and where I might go

30. Learning about automated trading systems...
Presentation & training & promotion of Mirror Trader

31. ... and studying Hong Kong’s pension system
A class of the Continuing Education Program for
Financial Planners in Hong Kong

32. Listening to the founders of StartupsHK...
First event of the Startup Grid Hong Kong

33. ... and finding out about Science Park

34. Learning about Hong Kong dollar...
Exhibition and guided tour in the Hong Kong
Monetary Authority (HKMA)

35. ... and hearing more about Bitcoin
They were talking in Bitcoin HK 20 February meetup

36. Keeping an eye on global markets...
A big screen in the HSBC main building in Hong Kong

37. ... and trying to find out what’s going on here
People Power radicals are disrupting Democratic Party's
Occupy Central event.

38. Wondering what to have for lunch...
A typical menu in fishing towns such as Sok Kwu Wan

39. ... or where to have it
A restaurant in World Trade Center

40. Seeing others meditating...
A Saturday morning in Kowloon Park

41. ... and attending a Yoga class...
A Sahaja Yoga HK meetup

42. ...and taking a picture of Buddha
Big & famous Tian Tan Buddha in Ngong Ping as seen
from Section 3 of the Lantau trail

43. Climbing to the highest accessible top...
„Like“: Landscape
„Dislike“: Pollution

44. ...and buying my ticket to Tung Lung Chau
Temporary „ticket office“ in Sam Ka Tsuen Ferry Pier

45. Here they go...
Mass of runners in Hong Kong Marathon

46. ... and they go...
Traffic on Connaught Road Central

47. ... and we are ready to go
Going to a hike in Tsuen Wan / Sham Tseng
(I’m the one with blue hat in the middle.)

48. By ferry...
This one here is ferry to/from Lamma Island, but it’s not
the only one.

49. ... and by MTR
Metros in Hong Kong Island are looking good indeed.
Waiting for train in Causeway Bay station

50. Hinting my next destination:
Lo Wu border crossing:
Just got through the Hong Kong immigration

51. But that’s already another story...
More stories in my blogs:
kristi99.wordpress.com and blog.logicoffinance.com