| |
The small distinctive green and white ferries of the Star Ferry Service are transportation means on sea which have linked the Central District on Hong Kong Island with Tsim Shs Tsui over the past 100 years. The journey takes about 10 minutes. On board the Ferry, one can enjoy the grandeur on both banks of Victoria Harbour, the Commerce Tower with its unique design and special architecture, the Bank of China looked like a sharp file, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in the shape of geometric figure, the Exchange Square of Bond Centre and Stock exchange, and the Legislative Council Building in the structural style of the Victorian Era. Far away, the Hong Kong Conference Exhibition Center in which the grand ceremony for the restoration of sovereignty of Hong Kong to the motherland and the Central District Center where the outer wall of the first Hong Kong Commercial Towering computer to control the illuminating system are all visible. At the Tsim Sha Tsui, there are such magnificent places as the Cultural Center, an architecture of sliding escalator shape, the dome-shaped Space Museum, the Harbor City, the Hong Kong biggest indoor shopping centre, the world first class Peninsula Hotel; a few Rickshaws, extremely rare historic objects are displayed at the Star Ferry Harbour. (a few two wheeled vehicles drawn or pushed by man customarily known as rickshaws.) It was once Hong Kong's main transportation means.
|
