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The second card from Ray shows Bird Garden in Mang Kok. It's a market that sells different birds and products related to bird-keeping.  Many many thanks to Ray for nice additions to my market collection :)

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It's a rather difficult task to choose which card to post first as I've received so many beautiful postcards during the past few weeks. But what has to be done, has to be done :P So I've chosen two more cards for today, coming from far Hong Kong from Ray. They are both market cards. This one shows Pottinger Street (or Stone Step Street), which used to be a part of Victora City. It was made of stone steps and named after the first governor of Hong Kong. 

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The colours of this card are just amazing! It's an over-size postcard with the picture of Victoria Harbour at dust. Thanks go to Kun for the wonderful postcard and stamp with special cancellation! 

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The postcards is simply gorgeous! This time coming from Hong Kong, the postcard represents a waterfall located in Tai Mo Shan Country Park (tai-big, mo-not, shan-hill) called Well Bottom Fall. 

The right bottom stamp was not used as the postage in fact; Kate attached it as she has read I liked stamps so she had thought I'd be happy to have this one showing Victorian Harbour. She writes that one is really difficult to find these days. Three more stamps from the bird set issued in 2006 and a fantastic butterfly stamp from the last year. Thank you very much, Kate!

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As I also started collecting market cards, any card on this theme would be a great addition to my modest collection. Ray of Hong Kong sent me a great view of the open market in Shau Kei Wan. "Shau Kei", he says, literally means "calender" and "wan" means bay. Shau Kei Wan is a relatively old developed town in Hong Kong that used to be a fishing village. 

The open market such as this one on the card, he continues, is one of the common types of market in Hong Kong, especially in the old developed area. It is open every day, and people go there to buy the things they need for prepearing meals, but all kind of products can be bought.

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My mailbox  hasn't been happy this week at all.. I've received only two postcards, but been waiting for many. On the other hand, I received postcards from two new countries for my collection ;) 

Even it's not one of these two new countries that have reached me, I'm posting a card showing the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong that reached me ten days ago. Some of the first recreational activities to take place in the harbour were water competitions such asswimming and water polo  in 1850s within the members of Hong Kong's first sports club, the Victoria Recreation Club. Nowdays, Victoria Harbour is home to most of the port facilities of Homg Kong, making Hong Kong amongst theworld's busiest. An average of 220,000 ships visit the harbour each year, including both ocean going vessels and river vessels, for both goods and passengers.

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The Peak Tram, Hong Kong's oldest form of mechanical transport, opened in 1888. Originally run by stream it converted to electricity in 1926 and then to microprocessor control in 1989. The upper terminus is 397 meters above sea level and the single journey takes eight minutes from the lower terminusin St. John's building. Jane says that the view of the Victoria harbor from the tram is very beautiful.

Thank you, Jane, for the card and nice stamps. The middle one is joint issue with France on art. I like that one the most :)