RAMMA LAMMA DAY TRIP
Aug. 16th, 2010 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogLast Friday I spent the afternoon on Lamma Island, the third largest island in Hong Kong and – as it happens – where Chow Yun-fat grew up.
It’s also something of a reputed hippie paradise. Lots of counterculture-types (particularly expats) live there, yet – unlike Disco Bay, another ex-pat heavy village, and the one where I live – it still has a very old-school local flavor that gives it character compared to DB’s park-like sterility.
It also has some of the best seafood in Hong Kong ... or anywhere else, really.
And it looks something like this.
Click the grid for the whole set if you like.
I was there with the rest of my office for a company outing (team-building and all that). It was fun, but blistering hot at 34ºC – which is why I skipped the watersports portion of the trip and sat in a cafe with ten really cute Chinese girls drinking Irish coffee.
As you do.
And even then, due to a sunblock application error, I still ended up with a pink triangle on me chest.
Good times.
Anyway, yr looking at highlights from the two villages we visited (Sok Kwu Wan and Yung Shue Wan) which I’ve been to several times (and even hiked from one to the other once), and something called the Lamma Fisherfolk's Village, a touristy thing showing how HK’s fishing community lives. That was pretty interesting, not least because one of my colleagues’parents are fishermen and she spent her childhood in a junk learning the ropes, so she was able to explain a lot of the tools and tricks to me.
Now she’s an office administrator. Which just goes to show.
Go fish,
This is dF
It’s also something of a reputed hippie paradise. Lots of counterculture-types (particularly expats) live there, yet – unlike Disco Bay, another ex-pat heavy village, and the one where I live – it still has a very old-school local flavor that gives it character compared to DB’s park-like sterility.
It also has some of the best seafood in Hong Kong ... or anywhere else, really.
And it looks something like this.
Click the grid for the whole set if you like.
I was there with the rest of my office for a company outing (team-building and all that). It was fun, but blistering hot at 34ºC – which is why I skipped the watersports portion of the trip and sat in a cafe with ten really cute Chinese girls drinking Irish coffee.
As you do.
And even then, due to a sunblock application error, I still ended up with a pink triangle on me chest.
Good times.
Anyway, yr looking at highlights from the two villages we visited (Sok Kwu Wan and Yung Shue Wan) which I’ve been to several times (and even hiked from one to the other once), and something called the Lamma Fisherfolk's Village, a touristy thing showing how HK’s fishing community lives. That was pretty interesting, not least because one of my colleagues’parents are fishermen and she spent her childhood in a junk learning the ropes, so she was able to explain a lot of the tools and tricks to me.
Now she’s an office administrator. Which just goes to show.
Go fish,
This is dF
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on 2010-08-16 06:57 pm (UTC)