Discover, Decipher, Live
You have been in Hong Kong for a short time or years. You find this city to be an exciting one however, it can seem hermetically closed, antipathetic. Often, it is sas if two worlds were living side by side without acknowledging each other. The Expats and the Chinese. Two parallel universes, criss crossing each other sometimes, but only in surface. How to overcome the cultural shock, and transform your experience of this City? That is the main question the Enlightened walks strive to answer!
So what are the Enlightened walks?
These new city experiences are
- intercultural
- contextual
-immersive
-consultative
-personalized
We walk the streets and decipher the environment, allowing our curiosity and conversation to show the way . You are invited to look (not only see), listen ( not only hear) taste and understand. It’s as if we were shining a spotlight on these areas that cultural shock puts in the dark. Little by little, what was incomprehensible makes sense. Your view on Hong Kong and its people changes. Stress subsides and the number of positive interactions grows. Smiles lighten up faces.
Many themes are visited:
- The Cantonese Language ( yes, slang is part of it) and communication codes
-Chinese Characters
-Traditional culture
- Pop Culture
- Local cuisine
- Medicine
- History
- The Arts
- Your themes
The first step is always the most difficult. This is why we initiate contact with people. Quickly, you gain confidence and speak, forgetting the “tone” issue.
The promise of the Enlightened walks: to make your stay in Hong Kong a richer experience which is connected with the city’s true pulse. They are not language lessons per se but it is true we have a basic principle: each encounter is a learning opportunity and our classroom is the city.
Why limit your experience as right here, right there, lies a complex and fascinating world?
So receive the keys of the city, get on a film a which you are the hero, by contacting David Attali, the Hong Kong Fixer at 852 95112352 or sending a mail to thehongkongfixer@gmail.com.
The “Yin-Yeung” coffee, HK’s very own “expresso” is on us!
A cup of Yin-Yeung: coffee-tea milk mix
Enlightened testimonials
My guide quickly introduces me to local uses and habits and we start with a walk around the district. Density is oppresing and confusing me in the hectic daily Hong kong life. As I am more used to feel places thag I visit, I quickly relaise the luck I have to be able to enjoy one of the Enlightened Walks of my guide: history, local habits, language, stories…. the experience is total and the vsitor rasvished.
Manuel Desrochers/CEO Aquaovo ( translated from his blog)
A big thanks to David Attali, videographer- documentray maker and unique guide in this city where he has chosen to be a uniting link, the bridge to cross between the Orient and the West.
Anne Pastor, Journalist, France Inter ( translated)
We have told many people about the wonderful day we had with you, seeing Hong Kong in a way we never could have done alone, nor, I think, with a regular tour. Every one has agreed we were very blessed to meet you. We did take a little of HK with us – Graham has his lovely trousers made by the tailor & I am enjoying the tea I bought in the supermarket (on our “Enlightened Walk”) made in & drunk from a little tea-pot & cup set bought in one of the Cantonese market shops – good memories as I drink.
Mary and Graham Wells/ One Oak Australia
