Star Ferry in Victoria Harbor

The first thing we did when we arrived in Hong Kong was to buy a ride across the harbor on the famous Star Ferry. The oldest form of transport across Victoria Harbor, it's a great way to navigate the city. It's also cheap: 2.20 HK$ or about $0.35 US. The boat is wide and open to the elements. We traveled from Kowloon to the Central dock on Hong Kong Island. It was a short ride, maybe 10 minutes. The weather was warm and muggy but there was air moving across the water. This is where the boat docked. There were skyscrapers everywhere.
I saw a few tugboats hovering in the harbor. You can see the Convention Center in the background. It's built entirely on reclaimed land out in the harbor. They were still dregging the bottom of the harbor the day we were there, too. The Hong Kong airport is also built entirely on reclaimed land. Amazing.


We loved the ferry ride so much that we bought tickets for a 1-hour night boat tour that evening.