From New York to Hong Kong, from one bustling city to another, I finally crossed Hong Kong off my travel bucket list.
During our four days stay in this eclectic city, we were
pretty productive and feel like I could recommend some things to do and eat (oh
my god, the food!) but one thing that made it to the top of the list is a ride
on Hong Kong’s tramways. They are over a century old (just turned 110 years old
this year) and pretty unique in the world. They are fully operated by
electricity and run exclusively with double-decker trams making
them a really fun and unique ride. Oh,
and the fare is darn cheap too (30 cents USD!) What was meant to be a 5-stop
ride to our destination, turned out to be a full-hour ride from east to west
and back to Central.
Riding on these trams
is almost like time travel as you are riding the same routes taken by the trams
back in the early 1900s.
Of course, everything around it has changed so it’s just incredible
that with all the new mode of transportations available, the tramways are still
heavily utilized.
Here’s a video (thanks to Instagram’s Hyperlapse app) I took
of my journeys on the Tram:
Thanks for stopping by xx
No comments:
Post a Comment