Hong Kong - Mui Wo Hung Shing Festival 2010

Mui Wo Hung Shing Festival in Hong Kong 2010

Date. 26-29 March2010

Time. 1800 - 2200

This festival is held to promote the Chinese Lantern festival with a series of Chinese custom activities. You can experience the rich and unique Chinese culture in these four days in Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

Activities:

Releasing Water Lantern

Venue. Mui Wo Silver River

People release water lanterns into the sea and hope their wishes come true.

Raising Flying Lantern

Venue. Mui Wo Silvermine Beach

Flying Lantern is also known as "Hung Ming Lantern". People write their wishes on the "Hung Ming Lanterns". Next they light them and then raise them to the sky (heavenly God).

How to get there?

You can take ferry from Central to Mui Wo. There are two types of ferries - ordinary ferries and fast ferries. The journey is almost 60mins on ordinary ferries, however, the fast ferry takes much faster, 30mins' ride only.

Have fun in Mui Wo this weekend !

Useful link:

The website of Hung Shing Festival in Hong Kong - http://www.hungshingfestival.com.hk/

The official website of New World First Ferry - http://www.nwff.com.hk/eng/

Transportation Guide - Elipsos Trainhotel

The ELIPSOS company currently manages the overnight Trenhotel railway services between Spain and France, Spain and Switzerland and Spain and Italy.

ELIPSOS INTERNACIONAL, S.A. manages the following best equipped international night trains in Europe:
ELIPSOS Trenhotel "Francisco de Goya" Madrid-Paris
ELIPSOS Trenhotel "Joan Miró" Barcelona-Paris
ELIPSOS Trenhotel "Pau Casals" Barcelona-Zurich
ELIPSOS Trenhotel "Salvador Dalí" Barcelona-Milan

The service personnel are on duty all night to look after customers and will prepare the beds at whatever time suits the customer.

There are 4 classes of seats available in train, includes:
The Grand Class - offers a comfortable and private roomette with dinner and breakfast.
The Club Class - offers a comfortable and private roomette.
The Tourist Class - offers a comfortable and enjoyable four-bed roomette and it is the best value for money when travelling with the family or with friends.
The Super reclining seats - offers at reasonable rate.

Personally, overall service was good and safe. When I got on the train at Milano, Italy, the personnel checked my ticket and collected my passport. After the train departed, the personnel came to my roomette and set my bed. The door of roomette can be locked inside of the room. The roomette was tiny, but clean and tidy. So there was not much space for passengers to place the luggage. Before reach my destination, Barcelona, Spain, the personnel returned me my passport. The train departed and arrived on time. It took almost 14hours' journey from Milano to Barcelona. The ticket price could be as low as Euro71/way/person, which is only valid for 21days advance purchase. The ticket price for the Tourist Class was approx. Euro156/way sold at Milano Centrale. You can get more details from Elipsos's website.

Useful links:
The official website of Elipsos - http://www.elipsos.com/htm/default.htm?lang=3