Plate I01
The Peak, the harbour at the blue hour.
Victoria Peak, blue hour
維多利亞港, the harbour
一Preface, on the city the harbour is the trip
Hong Kong is the city where the harbour is the trip. Hong Kong Island on the south, Kowloon on the north, the Star Ferry between. And at five PM you take the Peak Tram for the only view in the city that makes you forget the city. Two days for the Island, one for Kowloon, one for Lantau and the Big Buddha, and Macau on a day-trip if you want a Portuguese chapter. Best between October and March. Cooler, drier, and the harbour clearer.
Every journey in Hong Kong, currently
3 journeys in Hong Kong.
二Interlude, Plates from the field
Things we
have seen.
Eight plates from the studio's last three years. The Peak at sunrise, a Sheung Wan dim-sum mid-morning, the Star Ferry at blue hour.
Eight plates, drag, swipe, or use the arrows
三Colophon
A small note
on how we work.
Tibro has been routing Hong Kong since 2016. Nine years of harbour mornings, dim-sum sittings, Star Ferry crossings, and the Hong-Kong-and-Macau six-night arcs that travellers come back wanting to extend into the Pearl River Delta.
We work with a Sheung-Wan-based partner desk run by Aileen (originally a Hong Kong Heritage Museum coordinator) and a Macau-side partner who handles the ferry transfers and the Portuguese-tile walking routes.
Hotels in Hong Kong are a side-of-the-harbour problem. Central for the business district and the Peak Tram, TST in Kowloon for the harbour view back at the Island. We hold rooms at four properties year-round.
Three routes is what we currently maintain. The Hong-Kong-and-Macau six-night is the most-requested; we route Macau as a two-night ferry-and-stay because the day-trip is the wrong-shaped trip.
9Years of routing Hong Kong
3Routes, none repeated
9 / 24Hours we tend to reply within
Warmly,
The Tibro studio , Mumbai, Sheung Wan (partner), Macau (ferry liaison)
四Letters received
From the studio's folder
What they wrote
when they got home.
Three letters from the last twelve months.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Hong Kong city, four nights, November 2024
Aileen had us on the Peak Tram at five in the afternoon on the first day. The blue hour at the top was the trip's first picture. The Sheung Wan dim-sum sitting at half-past-eleven on the second day was a small place that the staff treated us like neighbours. The Star Ferry at six PM with a one-dollar-fifty ticket and the entire skyline lit was the postcard moment we now show people.
P. & K. IyerBengaluru, first Hong Kong trip
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Hong Kong & Macau, six nights, February 2024
Three Hong Kong nights, two Macau, one back in Hong Kong for the flight. Macau's old Portuguese town at first light was the surprise of the trip. Largo do Senado, the yellow facades, the egg-tart bakery on the way back to the hotel. Aileen's coordinator on the Macau side made the ferry and the walking routes feel one-trip.
A. & R. KrishnanChennai, long-weekend escape
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Hong Kong & Pearl River Delta, nine nights, April 2024
Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen, Guangzhou. The Shenzhen day was a Tibro idea we had been on the fence about and the modern Chinese-architecture chapter was the trip's third surprise. Aileen's brief on what to see and what to skip on the mainland side is what made the longer trip work.
M. & N. BhattacharyaKolkata, returning, second China-region trip
4.90 / 5Average from 96 returned travellers
31%Travel with us a second time
9 hrsMean reply time to a first letter
五An open letter
Tell us how many
nights, and which second city.
Two questions decide a Hong Kong trip: how many nights, and whether to add Macau or the mainland Pearl River Delta on the back. Aileen in Sheung Wan writes back inside the working day with hotels held on a tentative.
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