Hong Kong Island Tour We passed through Repulse Bay, a luxurious residential area for the rich and famous (the only famous person I recognised was Jackie Chan, very grand house, but it was a Tudor design which did not fit in with the surrounding area). Visited famous fishing village of Aberdeen to see junk boats (complete with barking dogs), sailing around the harbour on a sampan boat. The brochures quoted ‘Hundreds of junks and sampans, old-fashioned boats serve as floating homes for thousands of people’. Not anymore, hardly any junk boats to see, not hundreds as I remember seeing on Blue Peter years ago. Our guide informed us the government were fazing them out and in a few years time, all would be gone. Next stop was around Stanley a famous market, it was perfect
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