North Point to Hong Kong Airport, via the A11 bus (with a surprise!).

Perhaps I should call this video the Ghost Bus. I was not quite the only passenger the whole way: but there was little need for the normal 19 stops before leaving Hong Kong. Anyway, I was able to enjoy the high-backed, quasi leather seats in peace, for this trip down memory lane, to the days when people flew to places. Our route takes us through the central strip – North Point, Causeway Bay, Wanchai and Central, giving us some good Hong Kong skyline views. However, the stars of this ride are the two bridges, first, Stonecutters’ Bridge and then the Tsing Ma Bridge, both of them spectacular engineering feats. Stonecutters Bridge, completed in 2009, has the 3rd longest cable-supported span in the world, and the bridge itself is a mile long. The Tsing Ma Bridge was completed 12 years earlier, and is the longest rail traffic-carrying suspension bridge in the world. It gets its name from the two islands it joins, Tsing Yi and Ma Wan. Coincidentally, each of the bridges was the second longest span suspension bridge in the world at the time of its respective completion. After the Tsing Ma Bridge, watch out for an absolute jewel of a surprise on the left. The only two people I saw in the airport building were a security lady at the first floor entrance, and another lady manning a bank counter at the street level exit. Waiting in the terminus for my onward bus (the subject of another video), I saw no other passengers – in fact, very few buses either. A total contrast from the last time I used the bus at the airport, when the Airport Express was closed during the protests and thousands of people were waiting for buses. Utterly bizarre, but please enjoy this trip nevertheless.