HONG KONG
- rainy season on the Peak -
Page added: 2022-01-29
In the Hong Kong chapter I have tried to avoid the obvious tourist places and instead concentrated on much more exiting and interesting things,- not at least the great scenic beauty of Hong Kong -, which must have stunned the first European navigators who explored the China coast!
However,- the Victoria Peak is a must for all visitors to Hong Kong and it is one of the great tourist attractions, due to the fantastic view over one of the greatest cities in the world.
But if you go there in the rainy season, when dark rain clouds drift in from the South China Sea and shrouds the peaks and vegetation in mist and everything becomes grey, and the rain is pouring down, - you cannot see anything, - except a grey wall of mist!
Consequently there are no tourists on the Peak during those circumstances! Too bad for them,- because even in rain and fog it is still very beautiful up there, high above Hong Kong!
How can it be beautiful when you are more wet than a fish, and the view of the great city has completely gone, and the only thing you can see is in the pouring rain is a wall of grey, dense fog?
Well,- it really is beautiful, because under those circumstances you are forced to look for the nearer things, - things that are very beautiful too -, but unfortunately sadly ignored when the visibility is good.
Another bonus in the rainy season is the waterfall on the Peak! This waterfall must be the most famous waterfall in Hong Kong, - simply because all tourists who take the walk around the Peak will pass it.
Unfortunately there is normally not much water in this fall, - sometimes it is only dripping -, but when the rain pours down over Victoria Peak, the fall suddenly comes back to life, with lots of cascading water and suddenly it becomes a wonderful sight, framed by green vegetation with lots of small red flowers. See for yourself how wonderful it is in the following series of pictures taken during a walk around the Victoria Peak in dense fog and pouring rain,- and with absolutely no people around!
1996-38-016 - Vegetation along the path - -
1996-38-013 - The mountain side shrouded in mist, - almost dreamlike - (Photo-and copyright: Karsten Petersen)
1996-38-015 - The subtropical jungle in mist -
1996-38-016 - - here a huge rubber tree, - ghostlike with its aerial roots hanging down from the mist - (Photo-and copyright: Karsten Petersen)
1996-38-018 - Beautiful flower in the rain - (Photo- and copyright: Karsten Petersen)
1996-38-021 - Hong kong's most famous waterfakk - - (Photo- and copyright: Karsten Petersen)
1996-38-023 - - a closer view,- and lots of small red flowers - (Photo- and copyright: Karsten Petersen)
1996-38-024 - Last view og the waterfall - (Photo- and copyright: Karsten Petersen)
This was a rather short chapter, - and I wanted to add some extra pictures from this rainy trip around Victoria Peak - - -
Also I wanted top do completely new scans of the pictures, because the quality is not as good as I would like, - but the code numbers for the pictures are NOT correct - - -
In my box 38 from 1996 you cannot find the displayed pics - - - So where are the originals? Well - I must have reorganized my system without correcting the codes for the pics, - but that's a job for another day - - -
Actually the pics looks quite allright taken into consideration, that they are only about 50 kilobytes and only 5-600 pixels wide -, but some day I will square out this problem and add more pics in a better quality - - -