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The Peak Tower, by Night

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:33:28 -0700

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The Peak Tower (Chinese: 凌霄閣) is a leisure and shopping complex located at Victoria Gap, near the summit of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It also houses the upper terminal of the Peak Tram. Both the Peak Tower and the Peak Tram are owned by the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels group, the owner of Hong Kong's famous Peninsula Hotel along with many other properties. The tower and tram join promoted by the collective branding known as The Peak

The Peak Tower is located at an elevation of 396 m, 156 m below the summit of Victoria Peak. Because the architects sought a design which would be prominent on the skyline but would not interrupt the natural line of the hills, they chose a site in a dip along the line of the hills, and restricted the tower's height to 428 m above sea level

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The Gates to Kat Hing Wai

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:32:32 -0700

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Kat Hing Wai (吉慶圍) is a famous Punti walled village in Yuen Long District of Hong Kong. It often mistakenly believed to be Hakka, whose people have similar traditions. However the Punti people were from Southern China and the first to settle in Hong Kong. Kat Hing Wai's residents speak the Cantonese dialect Weitou dialect, rather than Hakka.[citation needed] Popularly known as Kam Tin, from the name of the area, it is home to about 400 descendants of the Tang Clan, one of the "Five Great Clans" in the territory, who built the village back in the 17th century. Three other walled villages, Wing Lung Wai, Tai Hong Wai (泰康圍), and Kam Hing Wai (錦慶圍) are located nearby and were built around the same time.

Kat Hing Wai was established during the reign of Chenghua (1464–1487) of the Ming Dynasty. The walls enclosing Kat Hing Wai were built by Tang Chue-yin (鄧珠彥) and Tang Chik-kin (鄧直見) in the early years of the Kangxi reign (1661–1722) of the Qing Dynasty.

In April 1899, the residents of Kam Tin rebelled against British Colonial rule. They defended themselves in Kat Hing Wai. After several unsuccessful attacks by British troops, the iron gates were blasted open. The gates were then shipped to London for exhibition. After the demand of the Tang Clan in 1924, the gate was eventually returned in 1925 by the 16th governor, Sir Reginald Stubbs.

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Two IFC

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:31:23 -0700

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The International Finance Centre (abbr. IFC, branded as "ifc") is an integrated commercial development on the waterfront of Hong Kong's Central District.

A prominent landmark on Hong Kong Island, IFC consists of two skyscrapers, the IFC Mall, and the 55-story Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong. Tower 2 is the second tallest building in Hong Kong, behind the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon. It is the fourth-tallest building in the Greater China region and the eighth-tallest office building in the world, based on structural heights; by roof height, only the Taipei 101, Shanghai World Financial Center, Willis Tower, International Commerce Centre and Burj Khalifa exceed it. It is of similar height to the former World Trade Center. The Airport Express Hong Kong Station is directly beneath it.

Two International Finance Centre, completed in 2003, is attached to the second phase of the ifc mall. This 415-metre-tall building, currently Hong Kong's second tallest, is quoted as having 88 storeys and 22 high-ceiling trading floors to qualify as being extremely auspicious in Chinese culture. It is, however, short of the magic number, due to the fact that "taboo floors" like 14th and 24th are omitted as being inauspicious – 14 sounds like "definitely fatal" and 24 like "easily fatal" in Cantonese.

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In Walled Villages, Sometimes There's Nowhere to Go But Up

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:27:55 -0700

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Altars and Alleyways II

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:57:54 -0700

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The Durbar Square is the designation given to the plazas opposite the old royal palaces in Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur; the three main cities in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. Each square contains multiple temples and showcases Newari architecture and craftsmanship over the centuries.

Patan, Lalitpur

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:15:34 -0700

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Patan (officially Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City), is one of the major cities of Nepal. It is one of the sub-metropolitan cities of Nepal located in the south-western part of Kathmandu valley. Patan is also known as Manigal. It is best known for its rich cultural heritage, particularly its tradition of arts and crafts. It is also called as city of festival and feast, fine ancient art, making of metallic and stone carving statue. At the time of the 2001 Nepal census it had a population of 162,991 in 68,922 individual households.

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Altars and Alleyways

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:14:42 -0700

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The Streets of Kathmandu, in Motion IV

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:15:51 -0700

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Kathmandu is the capital and, with close to one million inhabitants, the largest metropolitan city of Nepal. The city is the urban core of the Kathmandu Valley in the Himalayas, which contains two sister cities: Lalitpur (Patan), 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to its south and Bhaktapur or Bhadgaon, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) to its east, and a number of smaller towns. It is also acronymed as 'KTM' and named 'tri-city'. In the last census (2001), the city of Kathmandu had 671,846 inhabitants. Population estimates for 2005 were 790,612 and for 2010 they stood at 989,273. The municipal area is (50.67 square kilometres (19.56 sq mi))[6] and the population density is 19,500 per km

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The Streets of Kathmandu, in Motion III

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:15:16 -0700

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The Streets of Kathmandu, in Motion II

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:14:33 -0700

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The Streets of Kathmandu, in Motion

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:13:48 -0700

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The Streets of Kathmandu

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:13:06 -0700

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A Sunburst Over Kathmandu

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:53:12 -0700

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Swayambhunath

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:49:56 -0700

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Swayambhunath is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in parts of the temple in the north-west. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees' for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. However, this may be a corruption of the local Newari name for the complex, Singgu, meaning 'self-sprung'. For the Buddhist Newars in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhunath occupies a central position, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites.

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Newari Architecture

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:48:43 -0700

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A Bell at Swayambhunath

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:47:58 -0700

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Patan, Lalitpur III

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:46:56 -0700

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Durbar Square, Patan

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:46:16 -0700

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River of Refuse

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:45:23 -0700

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Life is a Blur

nobody@flickr.com (Doug Mo (Gone Vagabonding)) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:36:52 -0700

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