Thank you very much Bill, I appreciate your nice comment.

Thank you Jim for your kind comment and for being along on the tour!

For your reference:

11 - Trip map of the Hong Kong segment of our tour, TST is just north of Hong Kong Island and Harbour in the southern part of Kowloon

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Hong Kong isn't all commercial high-rise buildings and high pressure: Here in Tsim Sha Tsui East we can find an urban oasis set among commercial buildings and hotels, and the images in this post portray the calm, relaxing space created relatively recently.

TSIM SHA TSUI EAST - As mentioned in yesterday's post in the History section, the eastern part of Tsim Sha Tsui was built on reclaimed land and was originally covered mainly by the tracks of the Kowloon - Canton Railway, with the Kowloon end-station just opposite the Star Ferry terminal. In 1978, this Kowloon station was relocated to a new Hung Hom station further to the northeast. The whole station and rails were demolished except the landmark Clock Tower. The Hong Kong Space Museum and later the Hong Kong Cultural Centre were erected on the site. Further land was reclaimed from the ocean at Hung Hom Bay in the 1970's. The combination of the replaced rail area and the recent land reclamation formed the new area now called Tsim Sha Tsui East. It is characterized by a large number of mid-rise buildings including hotels, offices and shopping centers, with garden-like pedestrian plazas interspersed between some of the buildings.

Interestingly, in 2004, the East Rail line returned to Tsim Sha Tsui with the underground extension of the line from Hung Hom to the new East Tsim Sha Tsui station, which serves as an interchange station with the Tsuen Wan subway line. Unlike other East Rail line stations, this station was built underground near Blackhead Point. An extensive tunnel system was constructed for pedestrians to access the most popular destinations in Tsim Sha Tsui, and to change trains between the two lines.


Notes
TRIP INFO: Set # 1 provides a brief introduction to THIS SERIES on SOUTH & EAST ASIA. See it at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-724330-1.html

HONG KONG COUNTRY INFO in set # 196: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-762698-1.html

EARLIER POSTS of this series: Access my topic list at UHH, the new posts are listed in reverse chronological order:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-topic-list?usernum=45105

Thanks for visiting, for improved clarity please view the downloads. I look forward to your comments and questions.

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1 - Centenary Garden: Peaceful setting among mid-rise buildings

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2 - Same urban garden setting among these buildings, at the rear a man is practicing his Tai Chi movements

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3 - The central fountain provides an urban water fairyland with strong gushes and a myriad of distributed water droplets

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4 - Fantasy of water trajectories under blooming Hong Kong Orchid Trees

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5 - The fountain sprays are made up of thousands of partially amalgamated individual water drops

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6 - Hong Kong Orchid Tree with pink flowers

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7 - Closer take of the pink flowers

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8 - A couple of the pink flowers in close-up

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9 - Contrasting the back-lit flowers against a dark background

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10 - A different set of light purplish flowers

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Thank you Ellen for your kind comment. Glad you liked this collection. You make an interesting comment: Except for the two images #5 and 6, all the rest were taken on the Star Ferry ride, practically at the same time. But you are right, the last 3 images look somewhat different from the earlier ones. When I processed these images in late 2013 or early 2014, I was still doing very minimal processing on Picasa, and I can only guess that the orientation of the view - towards the East for the earlier ones and to the West for the later ones made this visible difference. The other two images, #5 and 6, were taken about a month later and the atmospheric conditions were probably quite different, ie less humid.

Interesting - Spain is always a rewarding location.

Thank you Ken, happy to hear that you enjoyed this mixed presentation.

Thank you Joe, glad to liked the colors and life in these shots.

Thanks Mike, yes, these reflections on the glass facade were quite striking.

Thank you Eugene, glad you enjoyed these images.

Thanks Rob, you are right of course about the haze, that's the tropics for you. Normally, the months of November and December have the lowest humidity, but even then it is still about 70%, the highest month on the average is April with 83%. Add to that the pollution of a major city with a high population density, and the result is going to be a considerable haze and that, pared with the heat, can make it pretty uncomfortable, especially in the hot summer months. Most of these images were taken on November 3 at 1pm, when it was still very hazy, images #5 & 6 were taken on November 29 at 2pm, and these appear quite a bit clearer. Even though a good part of Hong Kong is very densely populated, there are actually plenty of open, green spaces on the hills and islands, except in Hong Kong Central and Kowloon, so we do find quite a bit of birds in the area, it is rather unusual though to see raptors over the harbor waters. In about a week or so I will have quite some bird shots from the New Territories.

Nice set, Barbara!

Beautiful captures, Ronnie!

Wow, wow, wow - great shots by Judy - you really got some serious competition there, Chief! That first one is spectacular and I also very much like #3 with the sharp/bokeh composition!

Great shot, Ours, - I am happy to see you posting again!