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Hong Kong in the rain

Three days of towers, trams, dim sum, and fog over the harbour.

It rained most of the time we were in Hong Kong, and it didn't matter much. The city is built for it. Covered walkways, trams, ferries, and a restaurant on every floor of every building.

Tall residential towers packed together under cloud in Hong KongRed double-decker buses on a busy Kowloon street
Towers in the cloud, and buses in Kowloon.

Lunch on the first day was dim sum. After that we took the Star Ferry across to the island, which costs a few dollars and is the best way to see the skyline.

Steamer baskets of dim sum and tea on a tableThe harbour and Hong Kong Island skyline from the ferry

That evening we walked the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. The cloud sat right on top of the towers, so the lights on the island glowed through the fog.

Hong Kong Island's skyline lit up across Victoria Harbour at night
Jeremy on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront at dusk with the island skyline behind

The island

The next day was on Hong Kong Island. The lanes around Sheung Wan are steep and full of painted walls, SoHo has bakeries, and in North Point the tram runs straight through the middle of the Chun Yeung Street market while people shop on either side of the tracks.

Jeremy sitting on a step in front of a painted wall of old tenement windowsTrays of buns and pastries in a bakery window in SoHo
A tram line running through the Chun Yeung Street market in North Point
Chun Yeung Street, North Point.
Victoria Harbour and the island skyline on a grey afternoonGreen hills rising behind apartment blocks on Hong Kong Island

We finished at a lookout above the city after dark, then flew to Korea the next afternoon.

Jeremy at a lookout over the city at nightHong Kong's coastline through a plane window