For guests travelling with young infants there is a Baby Care Center available. The center has changing tables, nursing rooms and feeding areas. There are also nappies, wipes, baby food formulas and over the counter medication available for purchase. If you require a stroller there are stroller rental services on Main Street USA which costs HK$100 for the day. A refundable $100 deposit is required and you must return your hired stroller at the end of the day to redeem the deposit.

The cliff on the right was once a part of the Tung Ping Chau island.


Tung Ping Chau has the best snorkeling area in Hong Kong. 13-years old Bruno had a good time here.

How to go to Tung Ping Chau

We took MTR to University station, walk 15 minute from exit B, follow the biking trail to seashore, arrived at Ma Liu Shui Ferry Pier. The ferry leaves at 09:00 am, tickets are sold from 08:30 am. You'd better be there before 08:30 am. We saw people keeping on coming until 9 am! And there was only one ferry on that Sunday.  Many people had to giveup this trip to Tung Ping Chau eventually.

Two ways tickets are required to be bought, HKD90 for round trips. The ferry leaves Tung Ping Chau at 17:00 pm.  If you miss this it, you have to wait 6 more days!

Definetely we will come back to Tung Ping Chau for a deep sea diving next time.

We went to Xidi village in a raining night, and our destiantion is Pig's Inn, it was well known on many blog articles of Huangshan and Xidi.  Though our GPS showed we were 2 blocks away only, our big coach could not enter into the narraw street.  A local people pointed out another direction in his Huizhou dialet, and we passed one and one crossroad, eventually we were here.

Pig's Inn in Xiding Village

The house is located in a hidden street of Xidi village, away from those must-go attractions.  In fact it was a traditional civilian house with a large enclosed yard with a garden, pigsty, chicken coop, kitchen, and outhouse.  After renovation by two poets from Shanghai, it was coverted into a hostel.  The 1st-floor lobby bar was located in the original pigsty area, that was why this place was known as Pig's Inn.

Xidi village was built between the 18th and 19th centuries, about 600 traditional Huizhou style houses, a main street which runs in an east-west direction, two parallel streets, and many narrow alleyways form the layout of this village.

Some of the houses were used as oil crushing workshop, which was popular in a traditional village of Huangshan.



A straw hat capped table lamp and other farm-style decoration



A guitar was played with melodic flair in Pig's bar

Our first night in Huangshan was in a sweet queen sized bed room.

Photo source: Pig's Inn Photo and  Raining night in Huizhou

We embarked Libra cruise from Xiamen and spent a magical weekend departing last Friday for a 3-day/2-night cruise to Penghu, known for her famous blue skies and pristine white beaches.

Penghu

Shili Beach is the best beach on the main island of Penghu. It is more than a kilometer long. The beach here is made up of fine grains of coral and seashell.

 

ZengCuoAn Beach in Xiamen

This water front plank is 6km long, goes from Hulishan Fort, Pearl Bay Garden, Calligraphy Square, ZengCuoAn Beach, Musician Square, Baishi Fort relics, Sun Bay Beach, Huangcuo Rock Beach.

This waterfront plank is divided into two parts.  The waterfront bridge is built on shoreline cliffs, and the trail is built on beach.

 

Tianluokeng Tulou Cluster

We take a Xiamen and Tianluokeng Tulou Cluster 3 days tour, picked up by a local tour guide from Xiamen Internation Passenger's Cruise Terminal.



Tianluokeng Tulou Cluster consists of a square earth building at the center of a quincunx, surrounded by four round earth buildings

The five earth buildings are:

1.  The square earth building named Buyun building(Reaching the Cloud building) at the center of the quincunx. It was the first earth building at this site, built in 1796. It is three storeys high, each storey has 26 rooms, four sets of stairs, and a circular corridor in front of the rooms. The Buyun building was burnt down by bandits in 1936, and rebuilt in 1953 according to the original shape.

2. The Hechang building, a three-storey-high round earth building,
3.  Zhenchang building, three storeys, round shape, 26 rooms per storey, built in 1930
4.  Ruiyun building, built in 1936, three storeys, 26 rooms per floor.
5.  The oval shape Wenchang building of 1966, three storeys, 32 rooms per floor.

This is the first time I visit this area of China.  In fact we enjoy a leisure holiday on the beach island of Penghu which is a part of Taiwan, and coast city of Xiamen, which is a symbol of fast processing modern communist China, and a traditional village of Tianluokeng, only 3 hours away from Xiamen.  You will like more of our Xiamen tour programs and Tianluokeng Tulou Cluster is must go trip.

In our 3 days stay in Hong Kong, we go to a Pink Dolphin Tour.

Pink Dolphin in Hong Kong

These unique pink dolphins live in a small area near the north and southeast of Lantau Island and around the smaller Peng Chau Island.

They are called Chinese white dolphin, a variety of Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin.  The pink colour originates not from a pigment, but from blood vessels which are overdeveloped for thermoregulation.  At birth, the dolphins are black. They change to grey, then pinkish with spots when young.  Adults are white.
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_white_dolphin)

How to go there

Take MTR from Central Station to Tung Chung staion. 
From MTR Tung Chung Station Exit B, you will find the Tung Chung Bus Station.
Take New Lantao Bus Route 11 to Tai O.

In Tai O, local people offer a boat ride of Pink Dolphin Tours. The boat tour takes you through the fishing village and out to the China Sea. No tour can guarantee that you will see the dolphins, the best time is June, July and August. You might see dolphins, jimping out of the water.

Tai O Boat Excursion Operating Hours: 10am – 5:30pm, each boat journey is approx 20 minutes.

Tai O village

Tai O village is a unique memory of life in an old fishing village. Stilt houses along the waterways are home to fisherfolk families and boats are the main form of transport. Salted fish and shrimp paste are some of the renowned local specialties.

Tai O Heritage Hotel

After the Pink Dolphin Cruise, walk around the Tai O Village, and you will find choices of different foodstands along the narrow street. Follow the road sign and go as ocean-front as you can get, you will see a beautiful pier and a colonial style buiding hidden on hill. Dating from 1902, this building was formerly the Tai O police station and one of the earliest police stations built in the New Territories.

This is the first time I have a tour like this. It is not really an ordinary Hong Kong tour, We are very happy for having a chance to explore a traditional village life in Hong Kong.  Well, children are so excited when they see dolphins!

Today we are on the way to Nyingchi, at an average altitude of 3000 meters above sea level, with stunning view of Yarlung Tsangpo River Valley.



Yarlung Tsangpo River originates at Angsi Glacier in western Tibet.  It later forms the South Tibet Valley and Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon before passing through the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India.   It is known as Brahmaputra River in India.

Read more articles of this tibet tour experience here.

Hong Kong Disneyland's Frozen Package comes out in summer time. It is inclusive of 2-Day Park Tickets (two adults plus one child), a “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique” Castle Package to transform your child into a Disney Princess, and 1 night at a Frozen themed room at Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel!


Hong Kong Disneyland is always a fabulous destination for many Asian families. Andy, Kitty (our little princess) and I had a great time there. For Kitty, Disneyland is her most favorite. She prepared a list for Disney Magic Day.

- Cinderella Carousel
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant
- Sleeping Beauty Castle
- Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars
- Jungle River Cruise
- Raft to Tazan's Tree House
- More...


Our typical 3 days Hong Kong Tour was like this:

Day 1 Arrival in Hong Kong, free time at Tsim Sha Tsui to spend the night.
Day 2 Hong Kong Disneyland Magice Day
Day 3 City tour and shopping experience in these places:
In CENTRAL : IFC One and Two Mall
In CAUSEWAY BAY : Time Square, Paterson Street
In TSIM SHA TSUI : Harbour City

One day ticket to Disneyland costs HK$499 for an adult and HK$355 for each child aged from three to 11. We bought a two-day-pass @ HKD680 for adult, and HKD480 for child.

The ticket for the newest bullet train from Guangzhou to Guilin is difficult to book.  We plan to reserve train tickets to Guilin two month ago.  At 1pm everyday, all tickets to Guilin will be released 60 days prior.  For instance, today is June 24, you can buy tickets for August 22.   We set up our alarm clock to book train tickets right in time, eventually we have our tickets leaving from Guangzhou at 18:00, arrives at Guilin at 20:31.  Perfect timing to escape the concret jungle of Guangzhou on Friday!

We are quite surprised to find out all train tickets to Guilin have been sold out 60 days prior, in 20 minutes!

Cormorant Fishing

We were picked up by a 7-seat coach from Guilin North Railway Station, and our deriver Mr. Ke Song was a nice person.  Then we went to stay overnight in a small village at the bank of Li River. At night, we went to see cormorant fishing. Those well-trained cormorants dive into the water to hunt for fish after receiving orders from fisherman.

Sunrise on Li River

The sunrise photo on Li River was the main reason we came for this holiday.
At 5am, we followed our driver Mr. Ke Song to climb up a hill, the raod is wet after rain, and I wanted to go back to my warm bed.  But Ke kept on telling me the view of the summit will be awesome after rain.   Yes, I knew all was worth after I saw this brilliant sunrise.

Longsheng rice terraces

Our last day was spent on the rice terraces in Longsheng, an area 100km north of Guilin.  3 hours on the road.   We stayed overnight in a village named as Tiantou, the rooms were OK.  June was the right time of watering the rice paddies, and people can be seen working with their buffloes in the rice terraces.

 

Our driver

Our tours in Guilin are not designed to the clock.  In fact we do not know what is next day's program until checking with local weather forecast by our driver Mr. Ke!  Yes we all knew that we were so lucky enough to have good weather in these 3 days.  And I highly recommend Mr. Ke to you.  He is an experienced driver who takes people to Yangshuo, Longsheng, Guilin, and remote villages in Guizhou.  He knows every path, photo point, where to rest.  He told us that he was used to be a chef in a local restaurant, and he sometimes prepare foods for his guests when they travel on road.  Yes, I find coffee maker on his coach.

He showed us some beautiful photos he took by his cell phone.
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