Below Pottinger Peak, with misty Mount Parker in the distance, is The Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, on Hong Kong Island. Cape Collision Road, near Chai Wan, is home to seven cemeteries: Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics, Sihks, fallen soldiers, and those not buried on consecrated ground, rest within walking distance of each other. Cape Collision Road is also home to two correction institutions.
Heng Fa Chuen, next to Chai Wan on Hong Kong Island’s northeast shore is home to Lei Yun Mun Fort and the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence. It was this fort that valiantly tried to stop the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong Island in December 1941. The fort fell on December 19. Many of its defenders are buried at the nearby Sai Wan War Cemetery.
Captured: July 11, 2008.
Great new look. Very refreshing and chic. Beautiful shot. Chinese people take their cemetery very seriously. Willing to pay a lot for “good” lot. It is considered to have direct consequences on the life after death.
I always considered memorial cemeteries for the living, the future generations, to remind them what had happened. Nice shot, Stevo, especially the mist.
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Very cool shot, Stevo. They look so crisp and clean.
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Neato! I like the mist, too. I think what Unguided said makes a lot of sense. It’s not for them but for us.
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i thought i already said this bt couldnt find the last comment. Great new website….
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Agree with the others – great shot (as usual!) After paying respects to my ancestors, I remember walking past row after row of those walls looking at the photos of those resting there now and imagining the lives lived.
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I love the mist in this shot. I like reading the background behind the place in your pictures.
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