Photos of the old Chinese village on Ma Wan.
Below are some new photos of the old Chinese village on Ma Wan.
To get there, head towards the Noah's Arc main entrance. Near the man-made "nature park", you will see a path. This leads down to the village, so follow that down.
I already did a previous post about the Ma Wan old village here:
http://parkislandhongkong.blogspot.com/2011/03/old-village-on-ma-wan.html
To get there, head towards the Noah's Arc main entrance. Near the man-made "nature park", you will see a path. This leads down to the village, so follow that down.
I already did a previous post about the Ma Wan old village here:
http://parkislandhongkong.blogspot.com/2011/03/old-village-on-ma-wan.html
Below are some photos of the old village on Ma Wan I took on a recent hike, this time with a better camera.
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| This Ma Wan village house must have looked nice in its prime! |
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| Banana trees on Ma Wan |
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| Ma Wan Old Village |
Are you wondering what on earth that strange white building in the backround is? That is the new Solar Tower being built on Ma Wan. It will apparently be used as Hong Kong's leading astronomy observation center. I presume they chose Ma Wan for the cleaner air and less light pollution, but I would think that no-where in Hong Kong is really ideal for astronomic observation.
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| Another pic of banana trees. Yummy! |
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| Walking the streets you feel almost like you were on a Hollywood movie set. |
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| I am sure this is where some of the local Ma Wan villagers who are still in the Old Village gather, chat, drink, gamble... |
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| View of Tsing Ma Bridge from the old village in Ma Wan Below is a map of the Ma Wan Solar Tower I mentioned earlier in this post. |
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| Ma Wan Solar Tower |
I should add, that there is also a "New Village" on Ma Wan. That village has been newly built and is occupied by some of the original villagers, but also quite a few ex-pats live in these. I'll post more on the New Village at some other time.
Just little remind after went through all your nice blog. The photo you show above is Kap Shui Mun bridge. Tsing Ma bridge is the long long one between Tsing Yi and Ma Wan. Thanks your blog and let me know how happy we are living on this island.
ReplyDeleteThe Solar tower is for observing the sun - would be crazy to build a night time observatory next to the very well lit Tsing Ma bridge. It has a website
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For night time astronomy, there is the Astropark in Sai Kung. Probably as dark as it gets (for HK!)
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Space/Astropark/astropark_intro_en.php
Not related to the village really, but just a comment that I noticed based on last weeks price data that Park Island hit a new high in terms of prices. We had been waiting since last year for prices to fall before buying but are now going to buy in anyhow as we think prices are good value with long term growth potential.
ReplyDeleteAny update on the old village redevelopment? Any news on a ShangriLa to be built on Ma Wan? Any news on the plans for a marina? MRT? All these represent upside for prices but I wish I knew for sure if they are coming or not and also the timing of construction.
Charlie, the ShangriLa (and I am not sure if it will be called that or not) and the Marina etc will I think very likely happen in the future. As to when, my guess is perhaps that it will take 6 years from now for approval, and then after that another 4 years or so for completion. Like anything, you need to get in before this is all certain. Look at, for example, the MTR in Sai Ying Poon, and the esculator that is being built up from Sheung Wan to Bonham road. As this was confirmed, prices started rising, as to some extent this added value is then to some extent "priced in".
ReplyDeleteMy feeling is, that especially if you live on Park Island (or if you know you want to live there) is that you bite the bullet, get into the market now, and hold. To me its a nice, solid, long term investment.
In the short run, there is evry possibility to catch up with prices at DB.
ReplyDeleteLove these photos, thanks for posting them and recording the for the future generation to see.
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