Dolphin Sunset: Hong Kong's Hidden Harbour View
Atop a busy ferry terminal in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui district lies a little-known rooftop deck with a dolphin statue, offering quiet sunset views over Victoria Harbour.
Tsim Sha Tsui is one of Hong Kong's busiest neighborhoods, crowded with visitors from morning until night. The area draws especially large numbers of mainland Chinese tourists who travel in by ferry from cities in the Pearl River Delta region.
Most of these visitors disembark at the China Ferry Terminal on Canton Road before heading straight to the nearby Star Ferry Pier and Ocean Terminal, both usually packed with people photographing Victoria Harbour. What few realize is that the rooftop of the very ferry terminal they arrived at, and will later depart from, offers one of the finest views of the harbour.
A quiet spot above the crowds
The roughly 10,000-square-foot rooftop promenade offers unobstructed westward views that become especially striking at sunset, when the deck itself sees relatively few visitors. Sharing the space is a second photographic draw: the Dolphin Sunset statue, showing three silver dolphins leaping from a square fountain.
At sunset, the colors of the sky reflect off both the statue and the water below. After dark, colored lights within the fountain illuminate the dolphins, their shifting hues standing out sharply against the night sky.
