MacDonnell Road, (Chinese: 麥當勞道, formerly 麥當奴道) is a road on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Starting from Garden Road, the road runs westward in the Mid-Levels and ends in Kennedy Road. The road is where the Office of the Commissioner of The Ministry of Foreign Affair of The People's Republic of China in The Hong Kong Special Administration Region is located. The Peak Tram meets the road near the St. Paul's Co-educational College. The night view of the Island side as seen from the Kowloon side - the opposite side of the Victoria Harbour Hong Kong Island (Traditional Chinese: 香港島; Simplified Chinese: 香港岛; Cantonese Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 dou2; Mandarin Pinyin: XiÄnggÇŽngdÇŽo) is the island where the colonial settlement of the Hong Kong territory... Mid-levels (åŠå±±å€) is a residential area on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. ... The Peak Tram The Peak Tramway is a funicular railway in Hong Kong. ... St. ...
It is named after a former Hong Kong Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell. The Governor of Hong Kong was a British official who ruled Hong Kong during the colonial period between 1841 and 1997 and was ex officio Commander-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral of Hong Kong. ... Sir Richard MacDonnell Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell , KCMG C.B. (Chinese Translated Name 麥當奴) (3 September 1814 – 5 February 1881) was a British colonial governor who became the 6th Governor of Hong Kong. ...
Tourists just love the Western Macdonnells, in their rented cars and impractical white clothes: you can drive there on bitumen, it's easy to squash into a day trip if you avoid anything strenuous like a walk, and if you've never seen the outback before, it's pretty impressive.
Again, the road is sealed, although it's mainly single lane (so you have to pull over onto dirt if anyone comes the other way), and as I checked out the few gorges and hillocks on the way east, there were almost no people: what bliss.
The Eastern Macdonnell Range is everything the west range isn't: peaceful, tourist-free, primitive (in terms of camping) and isolated (it's a dirt road from the single-track bitumen into the park)...
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