[carang]

as for flowers and waterfalls... i literally just have to open my window!

[redwriter]

Well skyhook, you missed my point. Ma Wan Park is NOT a country park. It is a privately designed garden with waterfalls and education center. It does not cater to the expat wanting beer and BBQ. This is a place where families can visit, educational signs along the way tell what flowers and plants you can see. It would not interest you or PDLM, because it is not watering hole. So, let the families and people who appreciate beauty and peaceful settings. And as for me, I travel where I want in Hong Kong.

[psampras88]

Cant help here but post something - Ma Wan is indeed a protected zone (no cars, building heights...etc) but is not the charming place you describe - in fact, probably the most inconvenient (half hourly ferry to Central or the shuttle to Tsing Yi MTR) and noisy (right in the path of flights departing from runway 07R on a standard departure) bit of country park in HK.

Not sure - are we talking about the same Ma Wan just by the Tsing ma bridge? I have my doubts...

[psampras88]

Also, is there really such a thing as a map to Park Island?

The only map I have seen is the one distributed by the numerous property agents by the pier showing the conspicuously close appartment blocks there....(there is a local joke around saying that Park Island is the only development where every single appartment window faces at least 4 other neigbours windows) - this is HK style promiscuity at its best!

No, really, as a country park, nothing beats Lantau & Sai Kung. Dont mislead our new SAR residents....visiting Ma Wan would just be a waste of time and a transportation nightmare.

[Skyhook]

Originally Posted by redwriter

Well skyhook, you missed my point. Ma Wan Park is NOT a country park. It is a privately designed garden with waterfalls and education center. It does not cater to the expat wanting beer and BBQ. This is a place where families can visit, educational signs along the way tell what flowers and plants you can see. It would not interest you or PDLM, because it is not watering hole. So, let the families and people who appreciate beauty and peaceful settings. And as for me, I travel where I want in Hong Kong.

Hmmm, you really don't have me sussed at all lol.

I rarely if ever drink beer, I am a well established fine wine drinker/collector thank you, and I might add, a pretty damn good cook.


I am about as anti watering whole as they come, maybe visit my photo gallery on this website under my id, you'll soon discover, that everything you just expressed, is so far off the mark,it isnt funny. I added some photo's today, listed under the new photo listing of the GEOEXPAT "Photos" hyper link above the creativefuel.com.hk animated gif advert.

psampras has the right explanation, but then he would, he lives in my neck of the hood, a bit further down in Sham Tseng. But whatever blows your hair back, redwriter....

[PDLM]

Originally Posted by redwriter

It would not interest you or PDLM, because it is not watering hole.

You've got me wrong as well - I spend at least one day most weekends hiking in country parks (that would be the natural bits rather than the manufactured parks).

[redwriter]

Than you PDLM and Skyhook. Lets let it cool now, as I don't participate in the Expat crowd since moving to HK. And finally, Ma Wan Park is NOT a country park, but a private development, and I suppose very few Expats would be interested in it. So lets drop the subject.