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=0=| Right next to the restaurants were the actual san pans. This is a view of just a couple of the san pans, but apparently they would be tied together out over the water making a little floating village. |
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| We also took one of the ferries to some of the less developed islands. The ferries would leave about once an hour and visit several of the islands. While most of the people in Hong Kong would live on the main island or Kow Loon peninsula. The other islands are sometimes called the New Territories which is also used to refer to the area beyond Kow Loon peninsula on the main land. This would be the view of one of the towns that the ferry would stop at. The ferry was pretty inexpensive, perhaps only 45 cents. |
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| On the ferry there were numerous boats anchored around the harbor. The pictures below are also around the harbor/river. There were relatively large boats as well as small boats anchored around but leaving a lane for the ferry. |
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| We took the ferry to Mantao island and then a small bus from the town where the ferry let us off on to a fishing village. This is a picture of some of the fishing boats that they would use from this village. Below is a picture of the village itself which had both tin shacks as well as buildings of poured concrete. The village itself was built along a river as seen on the right below. |
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| Along the river there would be san pans anchored which we presumed was the home of some of the village resident. This is a picture of a man entering what we presume is his home. The village was on both sides of the river and there was a simple rope pulled ferry between the two side of the village (shown below). This ferry was pulled by a man and his wife who pulled the ferry for their living. In the second picture you can see the ferry returning with a full load of people (with the load not very evenly distrubuted). Also in that picture you can see on the right a very nice bank of Hongkong and Shanghai building. We had observed in most of the asian countries they had no idea of zoning in that you could have a very nice back right next to an open market and tin shacks. |
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