To the old Lantau Island in 1950 舊香港

On my first holiday in HK I took a ferryboat to Sham Shek Tsuen and was transported ashore by sampan. Then followed an hours long arduous climb to the Po Lin Shi monastry where I arrived in moonlight. The monastry has changed so much that it is unrecognizable now.
I have also a video clip on YouTube of the film I took there.
Camera: Michael Rogge
See my other 200 video clips here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=MichaelRogge

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• hong kong
• 1950
• china
• lantau
• sham shek tsuen
• sham wat
• po lin
• monastry
• buddhist
• michael rogge
• monks
• 舊香港

[huwingcheng]

I remembered on top of Lantau Island, there are some cement houses and a swimming pool. When I was a small boy I had seem some Kwailos being carried to the top of Lantau Island with chair. (1 person carried a chair on each ends)

That is what they called Summer Vacation.

[MichaelRogge]

@huwingcheng . I do not recall that chair services on the island were available in the early fifties. At any rate we would not have used them (I never did) as we loved to walk instead, although to Po Lin Shi monastry it was quite a climb arriving in moonlight!

[rainnyeyes]

shamshak tsuen is way still the same but a huge infrastructure will start in several years, the po lin monsatery and surroundings smell of money, what a pitty.

[robinphillips]

Every video you post is a gem..... ;-)

[huwingcheng]

Amazing video, a piece of history, and the beautiful background music.

[frankie1031]

Wow...that's so precious!!!

[MichaelRogge]

She is as old as I am !

[MichaelRogge]

It is from an old 78 rpm record I bought in HK 55 years ago!

[tonyinhk1]

Incredible films that are truly time capsules. It's so fascinating viewing everyone. Thank you so much.

[dalook764]

Thanks