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Tiger Balm Garden

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Tiger Balm Garden
Submitted by Andrew Suddaby
Authors: 
Malcolm Trousdale
Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Tuesday, January 1, 1952
Gallery: 
Trousdale, Malcolm (1951-53)
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Submitted by H Lo on Sun, 2020-12-20 16:39.

Does this look like the pavilion on the hilltop behind the Garden? If yes, then I've just visited the other two, seen on the slope facing the Garden, the three of them are now hidden in dense forest.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wTV1tgeG6bwp98gC9

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Mon, 2020-12-21 04:33.

Hello, and thank you for the comment.

Until you drew my atttention to the pavilion on the summit of what might be Jardine's Lookout (??), I hadn't noticed it, or the two less visible ones lower down the hillside.  I have not been able to see any reference to any of these either on Gwulo or on any of the old maps.  Malcolm, who died in 2015, was in Hong Kong just a few years prior to my time there  but he never mentioned them to me. Perhaps a more knowledgeable person than I am can shed some light into their origins and place a pin on the Gwuo maps to indicate the location of at least the one on the summit.  Regards, Andrew

Submitted by H Lo on Tue, 2020-12-22 22:53.

Just visited the three of them these days, quite sure they are the ones in this photo. Glad that they still exist.

I have placed a pin of the location for the one in the mid level of the hill, and have explained in that page of how to get to all of the pavilions.

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Wed, 2020-12-23 04:38.

Thank you for adding the pin.  Are you able to add one for the pavilion shown on the summit, as I cannot work out which summit it is on?

Submitted by H Lo on Wed, 2020-12-23 13:49.

I've mentioned the way to look for it here in this page  https://gwulo.com/atom/38562.

Another way is to look for the dead end of 111 Mt Butler Rd where the service reservoirs are. Try cutting through the fallen branches and vines for the northern side of the Tai Hang #1 Fresh Water Service Reservoir, it's a few metres downhill in the jungle straight from the wire fence. 

 

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Wed, 2020-12-23 19:48.

Hello,

I'm afraid that I cannot visit any of any of the pavilions as I live in England.  My question is based on the fact that, on Malcolm Trousdales's photograh that I posted, the hill top pavilion is much higher up than the Tiger Balm garden, and looks to me to be on either Jardines's Lookout or Mt Butler.  Any thoughts?  Regards, Andrew

Submitted by H Lo on Wed, 2020-12-23 22:50.

22.2732892, 114.1953286

Alt. 192m

Though it's located nearest to 111 Mt Butler Rd, it's just south of Jardine's Lookout 433m. The summit of Mt Butler (435m) is comparatively further away on its southeast.

Tiger Balm Garden is at alt. ~80m