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Hong Kong Holidays/ Festivals 2018
2015 Calendar below for reference
The first day of January 1 Jan
Chinese New Year of the Goat 19 Feb
The second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year

Che Kung's Birthday

20 Feb
The third day of the Lunar New Year 21 Feb
Spring Lantern Festival / Yuen Siu 5 Mar
Chinese Groundhog Day 6 Mar
Ching Ming Festival 5 Apr
The day following Ching Ming Festival 6 Apr
Good Friday 3 Apr
The day following Good Friday 4 Apr
Easter Monday 6 Apr
Labour Day 1 May
Birthday of Tin Hau 11 May
Buddha’s Birthday and Cheung Chau Bun Festival

also Tam Kung's Birthday

25 May
Tuen Ng /  Dragon Boat Festival 20 Jun
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day 1 July
Kwan Tai / Kwan Gon's Birthday 8 Aug
Seventh Goddess' Day / Tsat-je 20 Aug
Chinese Ghosts Festival / Yue Lan 27 Aug
Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival / Moon Festival 27 Sep
Day after Mid-Autumn Festival

Monkey King Festival

28 Sep
Confucius' Birthday/Teacher's Day 9 Oct
Chinese National Day 1 Oct
Chung Yeung Festival  
Winter Solstice 22 Dec
Christmas Day 25 Dec
Boxing Day 26 Dec

 

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Home > Sightseeing > Districts > Hong Kong Island > IFC Mall

IFC Mall

Seated at the base of the huge International Finance Center II and beside Exchange Square the IFC Mall should be full of finance types, and indeed you'll see a lot of suit-wearing types at lunch crowding the Pret sandwich shop, but this is really a mixed mall with some very basic and some very high end shops.

Located as it is near the waterfront and beside the public piers it has a lot of through traffic from people living on the outlying islands who take their daily commute via the mall walkways and on to the MTR beneath IFC and the bus terminus underneath Exchange Square.

Crowded with high end shops and some with the pricy "CitySuper" supermarket also located in the mall you'll find that the lower-income traveler will just be walking through on the way somewhere else.

As a tourist the most interesting part is the open decks on the upper levels.  With some simple sculpture, plenty of seating and a few cafes this offers great views over the harbour to TST and also views of the city center.

It is one of the few places in the city center where you can eat outside in comfort away from the car fumes and crowds.  Note that all the square brown wicker chairs are actually public and for anybody to share even though they get dominated in the evenings by the cafes.  You could take your picnic there if you wanted.

Nearby is the Four Seasons Hotel but this is a high-end business hotel and not the place for the casual tourist, or indeed for the local.

Nearby

It is a short walk on the overhead walkway to Western Market

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