Written in December 2010: Along Cheung Chau Praya, towards Sai Wan, a housing development is taking shape. Not just any development – this is on land bought in 2007 for a whopping HK$96.5 million by Cheuk Nan (Holdings) Ltd, the…
On 19 May 2010 – unluckily, the first day of the Bun Festival proper – storms swept into Cheung Chau from the west. Dramatic, especially as the first thunderstorm arrived, bringing sudden transition from calm, to lashing wind and rain.
Scenes from the wilder side of Cheung Chau, shot during April and on 1 May 2010.
Scenes of the Tin Hau Festival at Sai Wan, Cheung Chau, on 1 May 2010
Some video I shot on Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, on Jan 1st:
There used to be a small farm tucked away on the northeast headland of Cheung Chau – surely a remote place to live, but pleasant to visit. See below for brief information on this, when the farm still existed. First,…
Now my son is two, he’s rather heavy for lugging about in backpack carrier. Easier to take the pushcair, for carrying him when tired – or when dawdling too much. This, though, means trying to avoid flights of steps. Just…
Southeast Cheung Chau boasts paths that wind around headlands and curl up and over hillsides, passing through woodland, and near to naturally sculpted giant boulders, once grand but now ruined houses, a couple of temples, a tiny nunnery, and cliffs…
Though most attention on the Bun Festival focuses on the parade day – this year to be held on 24 May – it’s actually held over several days: this year’s Bun Festival starts on 21 May (there’s also a Climbing…
The Cheung Chau Bun Festival is a kind of Jiao Festival – a festival that a village might hold every year or every few years. More specifically, it’s a Tai Ping Qing Jiao [literal meaning: “the Purest Sacrifice celebrated for…