Cheap Stopover Holidays
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In Hong Kong
Stopover packages in Hong Kong are getting cheaper and cheaper. The latest is a BOAC holiday which gives two nights’ hotel accommodation with private bath or shower, continental breakfast, service charges, transfers airport-hotel-airport by private car, and a half-day sightseeing tour—for as little as SAIB, depending on the hotel you choose. The air fare is extra, of course.
There is a choice of two sightseeing tours for the first of which the coach leaves from the central district.
At the Peak tram station in Garden Road you board the tram for the exhilarating ride to the top of the Peak seeing one of the world’s fabulous panoramic views. Continuing by coach you are taken to a viewpoint overlooking the beautiful Happy Valley racecourse and Wanchai.
Next stop is the Tiger Balm Gar-
dens to see the famous White Pagoda and the grotesque statues in the set ting of exotic plants and then on to Repulse Bay.
The return drive takes you via Deep Water Bay to picturesque Aberdeen, home of thousands of water people who are born, live and die on their junks and sampans in the crowded harbour. The return to central dis trict is by way of Hong Kong Uni versity and West Point.
To start the second tour—of Kow 10911 and the New Territories—you drive along Nathan Road, the main shopping street of Kowloon, enter the New Territories at Boundary Street and continue along Castle Peak Road to the new industrial town of Tsuen Wan.
The tour then follows the coast road with its wonderful views to Castle Peak village, site of one of
Hong Kong’s famous floating restau rants and turns west to pass rice paddies, duck farms and water buf falo to Yuen Long, and then north to Lok Ma Chau for a glimpse across the Chinese border.
From Lok Ma Chau you turn south to Fanling with its three im maculate golf courses and then on to see the sampans and fishing junks of Tai Po and to Shatin in the shadow of the Amah Rock, so called because of its shape resembling a woman holding a child looking out to sea.
Finally you visit a walled village, typical of ancient Chinese grouped houses and pass through the Lion Rock tunnel and back to Waterloo Road, an exclusive residential area leading to the busy centre of Kow loon.
If you’re in more adventurous mood, other tours, including a har bour cruise by Chinese junk or a whole day tour to Macau, can be arranged for you at additional cost.
Want to know more? If you do, a copy of the brochure may be ob tained from any BOAC office.