Cheung Chau, Hong Kong
Cheung Chau is an outlier of Hong Kong. The area of this small island is 0.95 square mile (2.46 square meters) in the shape of a dumbbell. The population is about 22,740 in year 2011. It is an island with no cars. The major transportation is bicycles.
When I was living in Hong Kong 40 years ago, the regular ferry took about two hours to go from Hong Kong Island to Cheung Chau. The newer ferry takes about 55 minutes. The fast ferry called hydrofoil takes about 35 minutes to get there.
Hong Kong is a major harbor of the world trade. There were pirates in the old days. When I was a teenager, the church youth group went there for an outing. We visited and crawled through the pirate’s tunnel.
When standing on top of a tall building, one could have a nearly 360o view of the ocean. I always enjoy visiting Cheung Chau when I go to Hong Kong.
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The Showers of Blessings 
! I can thoroughly imagine the excitement of it 🙂
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Yes, it’s a quiet and nice island! Thank you for our comment!
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beautiful country with a great deal of history two things that make me love it would like to visit there someday
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I should go back to visit more often than I have!
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Lovely photos, I hope one day I will get there to see it for myself, it looks so beautiful.
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That’s an exciting city! Thank you for your comment!
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Crawling through former pirate’s tunnels? Sounds straight out of an Enid Blyton and blood exciting 🙂
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That was a lovely idea for teenage kids like me at the time! It was so exciting. Part of the tunnel, we had to make our bodies slanted to squeeze through, ground was wed!!!
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I can thoroughly imagine the excitement of it 🙂
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Yes, I still have that image of crawling in my mind!
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The harbours of Hong Kong is teeming with islands big and small.
We definitely will make these islands our “target” next time we are in Hong Kong!
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Good!
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Great post… good to see pics of a place I haven’t been 😁
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Thank you! We are thinking about where to go next!
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I will bet that crawling through that pirate’s tunnel was loads of fun, what great photos.
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Oh, yes, they built in in a way that people can not walk through it standing up straight. We had to tilt the body in a slanted way to walk through it. Since it’s by the ocean, the bottom is filled with water depending one the tide! It was fun!
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Nice pics. Makes me want to go to Hong Kong myself 😀
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Thank you! It’s a small area of a big city, with exciting life and nightlife!
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Looks beautiful!!!
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Thank you!
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