Hong Kong photo dump days 1-6

Marcus's apartment is just out of shot to the right. This is Aberdeen Street, one of many parallel sloping down from Victoria Peak to the harbour. 

A kiosk-size artwork at Kowloon ferry port.

The ferrymen have natty uniforms and you can tell by their poles, they love the Tiges.

On our first four days we took mulitple ferry rides. They're cheap and a section at each end is air conditioned. The crossing to Kowloon is quite quick. Marcus lives about 10 minutes walk from the Hong Kong ferry terminal. And we were very lucky to find cheap and cheerful accommodation for two weeks just a block downhill from him.

It's an utterly vertical city. There are retaining walls like this everywhere, often with trees growing out of them. The roots are maybe helping hold them together but must occasionally do the opposite.

This is the Man Mo temple, just along Hollywood Road from Marcus. It's a traditional Buddhist temple. The beehive-shaped coils are incense which burns slowly up from the bottom while a big pan catches the ashes. It's open at the eaves and you can see the towers through that space.

In the courtyard of Man Mo temple.

For HK$18 (A$3.60) you can apply a square of gold leaf to this deer.

There are early 20thC wedding outfits at the Hong Kong Museum of History. A notable part of the 

cultural heritage of this area is the traditional wedding laments; sad songs that young women would sing before their arranged weddings as they were taken away from their families.

Hollywood Road, Marcus's neighbourhood. It immediately made me think of a cross between Lima in Peru and a swanky Melbourne suburb like Armadale.

Aberdeen Street again

Snacks outside the ferry terminal at Kowloon. I had a rice triangle with a goopy inside of sauteed clam in soy sauce.