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香港 #AlreadyTomorowInHongKong – Adventuring without a blue box-TARDIS| where to begin……. With that view also Open Hailing Frequencies required….

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香港 #AlreadyTomorowInHongKong – Adventuring without a blue box-TARDIS - looking south wise of Tsim Sha Tsui-photographer @KevinJamesNg
香港 #AlreadyTomorowInHongKong – Adventuring without a blue box-TARDIS – looking south wise of Tsim Sha Tsui-photographer @KevinJamesNg

My first day back… It’s modestly warm in the early hours of the afternoon…

Once settled, settling in checking into my accommodation, to well-located Hotel that overlooks Kowloon Park, with amazing anthropology views of Hong Kong, north wise in facing New Territories, even though it’s not facing Hong Kong Island way… I can see the neighbor anthropology building up as I look onwardly as each building in presents its own stories in through the windows of its neighborhood…  from the amazing views of Tsim Sha Tsui onwards towards new Territories…..

The first thing, on my mind was getting to know the place once more, in saying that food, was one thing also it’s been a while since I’ve eaten anything from this morning flight from Auckland towards Hong Kong… secondary, knowing as first also it was an Octopus card… Only spending only few least hours in getting to know my accommodation, tuning in my devices with the hotel’s Wi-Fi, also meaning that getting to get Data Roaming available mobility, one way of getting that very much Data Roaming was either get new sim card from either “China Mobile-Hong Kong” or the Hong Kong equivalent of Vodafone…. In which was “smarttone” also I’ve noticed along the way there was vending machines with Data simcards, but in that sense having think with the options, with Data security essentials was on my mind, that deciding I rang my carrier back home to arrange for the Data roaming as I presume that I had it, but noticing it I didn’t ..

While Arranging, Data roaming with my carrier back home, while looking out the windows of and ever so innovative changing Hong Kong as seeing the city landscape changing in one go exploring all in one go as I pan my view from west to east where the sunrise to is setting seeing the different high lights as the lighting shone throughout different the afternoon.. As I complete what was needed to be done, then I settle out to get something to bite on exploratory…

香港- HONG KONG | Johnathan JK Morris- An abandon village in Kuk Po….

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In all great progressing, constant, developing cities comes side effects (with development in one case) like how one abandoned village in Kuk Po. Kuk Po is situated in North Eastern area of Plover Cove in the West coastal area of the New Territories in Hong Kong. Its impassable by road, but it is walkable for a 45 minute trek to the village, also as you look beyond the Starling inlet towards the Yantian Harbour (where it is nestled against) is the PROC of China, Yantian City.

As a resident of Hong Kong “Freelancer Journalist Johnathan JK Morris “explains, documents the village which was once was a vibrant with life. Occupied by seven clans for three centuries more (almost the same duration as the Ming and Qing Dynasty). The village was once busy with farming and oyster picking. The communities were bilingual in Hakka and Cantonese in which was the common tongue back in the imperial days of the Qing Dynasty in Canton Providence region of China.

Since the 1920’s the village was in decline, although it’s still occupied by a handful of residents. The population was in decline as more of the younger generation moved onwards towards the larger city areas for work and a better life. The community still retains a self-sufficient spirit in heart with a community restaurant as a meeting place on one side of the village. Exploring the village thoroughly is a must, just in case you missed any slight details. Exploring the village is like experiencing the village in a standstill with time in as you visually excavate archaeologically the abandoned rooms and come across the relics that were left behind. Seeing them left behind makes you think you’re living there amongst a community of your neighbours that could return at any moment.