Yung Shue Wan Ferry Pier
Gateway pier to a car-free fishing village with a multicultural expat community and a sombre maritime past.
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This guide to Yung Shue Wan Ferry Pier in Hong Kong centers on National Day 2012, when two ferries crossed paths in the dark channel just offshore, one carrying commuters home and the other bound for the fireworks in Central. It returns you afterward to the car-free fishing village on the pier's other side, kept that way partly by the power-station chimneys looming on the ridge above. Listen for how the same crossing looks now that you know the water beneath it.
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