Aberdeen Fishing Village
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Aberdeen Fishing Village is the epitome of old vs. new.
The high rises blanket and surround the old style traditions of this bustling fishing village. On our Hong Kong Island tour we had a stop at Aberdeen fishing village and took a ride on a sampan. The sampan was decorated with red lanterns for Chinese New Year and the woman navigating through those busy waterways told us that she had actually made the boat herself. She lives in the village on a small junk boat and makes her living by offering sampan rides around her neighborhood village and over to the Jumbo Floating Restaurant which is lavishly yet ornately adorned with red and gold artwork and tradtional dragon sculptures. We stopped a bit to photograph the Jumbo Floating Restaurant and just cruised along taking in the sights of the local people on their junk boats and watching them decorate for the Lunar New Year. It was so much fun just seeing how these people live. Families of four and five living on small junks with basically the bare necessities yet they wouldn't have it any other way. There was one boat in particular which had a small black and white tv perched on a wooden table on the deck of the junk and because of this the family was considered to be "well off" because no one else even had a television. Yet, this simple village is surrounded on land by luxury skyscrapers and on the water by luxury yachts. The families in this village make their living by fishing and selling their catch to the nearby restaurants. They work sometimes 16 hour days and 7 days a week. This is a family tradition held down from generation to generation and is considered a gift. As a result they would never leave their surroundings. Learning about these people, their lives and being able to visit their homes by way of the sampan navigating its way through the maze of junk boats was indeed an inspiring and wonderful experience. |
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