A visual travel diary: A weekend in Hong Kong

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Hong Kong is one of my favorite cities in the world. Writer Pico Iyer has described Hong Kong as: “A dream of Manhattan, arising from the South China Sea.” From a sleepy, unassuming fishing village in the 1700’s, Hong Kong has grown into one of the biggest metropolis in the world.

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Pottinger Street, Central, Hong Kong Island.

 

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Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

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The mid-levels, Central, Hong Kong Island.

 

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Hong Kong is a city full of energy and hustle, not that different from Manhattan. But you can find pockets of space where things move slower.

 

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View from our hotel room. Hong Kong Harbor on a gloomy day.

 

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Australia Dairy Co. A good place to experience a real HK breakfast. Be prepared to stand in line though.

 

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One of the things that always amazes me about Hong Kong is the sheer amount of things packed in such a small place – food, shopping, hotels etc..

All images on this page shot with the Ricoh GR. Almost all images are straight-out-of-camera JPEGs, a couple were edited to taste with VSCO filters in Lightroom. Some images were shot with the Ricoh GW-3 wide-angle adapter.

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