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The Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department hosted the Hong Kong Flower Festival a few days ago at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay. More than I was interested in flowers, I was interested in some people watching and taking time off and getting away from campus. Surprisingly, it proved to be quite a treat.
There were some attractions. Hong Kong is hosting the East-Asian 2009 games during December and so there was no way of avoiding …
The kids seemed really into it.
With all due respect to the flowers, the most interesting thing there were the people. Hordes of people, all cramped around tiny flowers with unbelievably expensive photography equipment, taking photos for hours. I’ve never seen such dedication to detail and perfection.
Queen Victoria was also there making sure all is in order…
All in all, it was very well done. Some gorgeous flowers beautifully set up, from all over the world.
It’s nice to finally live in a city that has world standard events almost all year around. If you’re in HK and have some extra free time, the HK international film festival is running a terrific selection of films starting March 22 for almost a month.
Ships | March 23rd, 2009 at 1:51 pm #
Chinese well known with beautiful architecture and nice buildings. This is what I likes most from all pictures and from all my travels to China. But here from these photos the best was the tree with traditional style.
Fili | March 25th, 2009 at 8:29 am #
Ships – Not much of traditional Chinese architecture in Hong Kong, I’m afraid. Hong Kong is a very modern urban style city.
Carrie | March 27th, 2009 at 8:05 am #
Looks like fun, Fili. I love flower festivals, and this one looks like it was quite interesting. Great photos!
Fili An | March 28th, 2009 at 4:23 am #
Thanks Carrie :) Yeah, it was good fun.
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