One of the iconic serious job roles as passengers, iconically traditionally with the airliners culture is the job role of the lolly runner that was set in tradition as flight attendants delivery the candies towards your fellow travelling passengers as they refresh also re-energized of one way of having sweets or various confectionery….before they set course on their next adventures.. As for Air New Zealand one of the roles is the #LollyRunner, in which the flight attendants pick a special passenger whom would like help to share that unique privilege and experiences of sharing that Air New Zealand wrapped candies with that New Zealand flavors wrapped in them.. In this case some may take up the role seriously as they taken the task of preparing themselves in a boot camp on knowing their lollies like the university challenge, training like the New Zealand sliver ferns, or the rugby team the All Blacks with those efficient moves… Thinking do you really have what it takes to be an honorary flight attendant to become the lolly Runner…
As a walkable adjacent to hill wise to the Ruins of St. Paul’s is the hill side Portuguese fortification of, – Fortaleza do Monte in which is adjacent to only fifty meters away.. in which walking the historically steps of Mount Hill.. In which those steps aside has old as the Ruins of St. Paul Church, in which you have to be respectable in this area as you walk up wards in beginning of the steps, is also an extension graveyard crypt of the Church… also the fort provides a protection of the St. Paul’s Church below..
Walking up among those historical stone stairs in which leads up towards a modern escalator, in which midway leading towards modern visitor center in which show case along the way the historical significant of place.. In which in the center is the Maco Museum, as below the stair ways there’s a small market square space in which selling souvenirs….
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As walking onwards outside of the Fortaleza do Monte, I could see the all-encompassing view of layers of Macau city neighborhood landscape… as its history unfolds with all the cannons gunnery emplacements readiness in defending the fort also the Church of Saint Paul’s below, tactically placed to with one of its Alarming bells to signal the fort….. Looking around in the fort the main fortifications seeming the fort operations seeming it covers all sides of protecting the township below…
as looking into the distance Macau skyline transition from older traditionally to new with a crystal skyline towers..
Looking in the distance is Mainland China, across the Harbour one of heaviest patrol Harbors in the world with constant patrol boats patrolling in between sides of Macau –SAR each Border patrolling on their partaking… as walking to one placement of the cannons looking at the older casinos of Macau, with that 1950’s retro last Vegas look… in that area where its modernized with wider roads, than the older Macau road in which was designated for horses carriages in those days, now those roads are now replaced with scooters with smaller cars to get around in with alley way streets in which you have to drive one way in which you’ll have to know the street outlining pretty well in which Google maps helps..
Looking in the distance with the Harbour channel in view this part of the city is defending within the capable outline of the cannon emplacements especially from the Harbour in those days still the Harbour also the river way…..
Taylor Swift follows me around, well whenever I walk, travelling around places that I know, adventuring her music does, her song often follows me around, in this case as I was walking out from the Peak tram into the Victoria Peak Mall- The Peak Galleria.. In which her music keeps following me all the way through the afternoon… As I walk onwards from the top from the Tram terminal… Is the entrance into The Peak Galleria Mall in which is situated on top of the summit that adjoins connecting towards the Peak Tower…
As I was walking out from the Tram terminal section into The Peak Tower shopping complexin which the first section that I’ve walking into is more a self-contained version of the tidy Temple Street Night markets- The Peak Markets in which the atmosphere almost felt the same with the real thing across the Victoria Harbour… As walking through the self-contained version of Temple Street also ladies market, from there within has the Official Souvenirs Boutique. , in finding the way out then finding away into the main lobby of the Peak Tower Mall, in which the mall was aerated with lots lighted window absorbing the outside views of surroundings views in from the views from all the distance views from Central beyond towards cityscape outlines of Tsim Sha Tsui as you could see the building through the enormous window building wall the two towers the IFC then the ICC extensively to the mountains of New Territories…..
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Making ways towards the outside towards the top of the building to it viewing platform in which the views are breath taking remarkable than viewing Auckland from the Sky tower, in which the more Organic One Tree Hill is the best choice with more of it natural surroundings.. the Victoria Peak Tower Mall offers in which best of both worlds of that in which the roof top platform- The Sky Terrace 428 overview in which 428 meters above sea level.. Adjacently down the building is in combination with it’s or it older oriental traditional modern Qing Dynasty Chinese pavilion counterpart …..
It takes a several flights off elevators in in reaching the many opens space layers of floors of shopping to get to the roof view platform… In which I could basically spend hours in taking with breath taking views encompassing all of Hong Kong, in which Given that I had an interesting Cannon camera I could take some interesting angled landscaping, street views.. From afar…..there are several features within the Victoria Peak Tower, like the Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, in which features many extreme detail wax works with various Hollywood and local mainland celebrities, also movie characters…
That Iconic Hong Kong view from that Iconic Nine Lions Pavilion with those modern Ming Dynasty garden pavilion elements that witnesses to untold stories..
On the viewing platform there are various sides of looking at Hong Kong in which you’ll see the transition from the more serenity less to the intense populated side of Hong Kong Island in looking out in the scenic mountainous bays distance of Kellet- Telegraph- Pok Fu Lam’s Sandy Bay…
From viewing the other platform is The Victoria Peak Galleria, in which is closely adjacent of Peak Tower is another mall in which has a self-contained museum with various eateries, restaurants… from the outside there’s an older Trams. In which exhibits what the tram looks back in the older days, where walking inside even its converted with that minty white interior metical paint, into a visitor centre, in which as I enter inside the cabin in the train I could see some sense of history with the relics of mechanisms, installation gears of that era of that time..
looking from the the Lion Pavilion, looking at the all encompassing history that ever so writing untold stories of Hong Kong ……
As walking out from the minty white green line livery tram visitors centre, I noticed something down the walking tracks of Findlay Road, in which is something Iconic is call The Lion’s Pavilion.. In which has the hallmarks of a traditional Chinese Ming Dynasty modern Pavilion viewing platform in which… has nine unique styles hand crafted lions, none that look the same looking at different key points of Hong Kong. The lion Pavilion has an awesome viewing position that encompass the urban side of the island also looking towards the New territories mountain hills.. in which is elegantly structured with white marble or concrete with Ming Dynasty masonry works, the pavilion is painted with maroon red, not that type of maroon red purple that can found on the walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing…..
Orthough I’ve been on the Victoria peak tram many countless times, each ride is never the same, never the same experience as each trip upwards towards the mountain to Victoria Peak is always a different story, as the different evolving stories unfolds as the passengers whom ride them.. Within each passenger telling their own stories as also unfold before them as they arrive at the summit…
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Going back there, in which the skyline has changed with more evolving buildings in the previously Jardine building (178 meters) was the tallest in the Hong Kong Skyline the tall rectangular building with the iconic round things windows.. now it’s the two iconic buildings one seen over west Kowloon with the ICC Building ( 484 meters tall) in Tsim Sha Tsui, also closer by adjacent to the Peak is the IFC building ( 412 Meters tall) that’s dominate over the skyline among with the HSBC- Hong Kong Shanghai Bank also the bank of China.. With ever more tall mountainous apartment, commercial buildings that planted among the skyline, like a Chinese towering mountain tops with illustrated trees……
Re-Finding the location in where to take the peak tram upwards from the where the lower Terminus is situated at Garden Road in the location of St, John Building in Central in where to find the place is well located with “The Peak Tram- 太平山” foundation in which the place also the place where Belgium Consulate is..
the location of the Victoria Peak Tram Terminus..
In order to get there, it’s best to get there early or later just in case of incoming influx of afternoon crowds or evening coming at peak times… but getting there by various transport means is located here with the buses routes, Taxis, or the Just a nice stroll from Central’s MTR.. Or given that you have your own transportation like a car, Barker road driving to the summit…. However for me it was transiting from the Star Ferry and then walking bring back adventuring memories towards to the Terminus in which… walking there was my best option as reconnecting with the constant redeveloping streets, as walking towards, from the HSBC- Hong Kong Shanghai Bank towards the street over pass corridors that pasts through towards the China Bank, from its art Deco to its new building in which was featured in Star Trek as Hong Kong was a Major Subspace commutations hub network also a co share Starfleet Command Base of operations..
After the massive Tropical Cyclone Cook that onslaught the North and South Island leaving it behind with massive flooding around the country, that till today that flooding is yet to be drying up for the country stills much more recovery and savaging needs to be done after its path that’s from Vanuatu…..
The few day after the Cyclone Cook’s onslaught… I drove to Auckland’s Urban beach, Mission Bay with interesting views of Rangitoto Island, from the East Tamaki side looking at the modest size Auckland CBD towards the Pacific Ocean also that rainbow later in the frame in which gate-crash for a while with rain, in view it was a lot clam than the previous stormy days……
