Happy Valley

English Proper noun happy valley en residential area district/Wan Chai sar/Hong Kong. en April 1, 2001 Katherine Ashenburg In Hong Kong, the Heart Grows Fonder w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150527151520/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/travel/in-hong-kong-the-heart-grows-fonder.html 27 May 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/travel/in-hong-kong-the-heart-grows-fonder.html 0362-4331 1645522 Travel https://archive.ph/tyzBU Like much in Hong Kong, Sybil's apartment mingles a certain glamour -- old Chinese furniture and Asian textiles -- with a cold-water-only galley kitchen shared with ants and a plump gecko. Besides mastering its intricacies, I had to shop and do laundry and other errands in Happy Valley, which is where Hong Kong began to insinuate itself into my affections.Happy Valley is, as Sybil puts it, ex-pat- friendly, and has been since the 1840's, when the British carved out a racetrack in the swampy north-central part of Hong Kong Island. en September 18, 2019 Donny Kwok Twinnie Siu; Clare Jim; Farah Master; Martin Pollard; Nick Macfie Hong Kong horse races, fireworks called off amid protest threat Timothy Heritage w:Reuters https://archive.ph/ClYSR https://www.reuters.com/article/world/hong-kong-horse-races-fireworks-called-off-amid-protest-threat-idUSKBN1W30SH/ May 18, 2025 Happy Valley, nestled in the hills of Hong Kong island, is a tightly populated, up-market residential area next to the Causeway Bay shopping district. There has been a horse-racing track there since just after British colonial rule began in the mid-1800s. en 28 March 2021 Rhea Mogul Hong Kong volunteers turn out to restore Happy Valley’s historic Hindu cemetery w:Hong Kong Free Press https://archive.ph/iyBGc March 28, 2021 https://hongkongfp.com/2021/03/28/kong-kong-volunteers-turn-out-to-restore-happy-valleys-historic-hindu-cemetery/ Hong Kong For decades, the Hindu cemetery in Happy Valley, tucked behind the community’s large temple on Wong Nai Chung Road, had fallen into disrepair. en barangay mun/Dinalupihan p/Bataan c/Philippines. en barangay mun/Tambulig p/Zamboanga del Sur c/Philippines. en Kashmir Valley 341 L'envoi Though a night of more wakeful and anxious thought had never been passed in the Happy Valley, yet, when she rose in the morning and her Ladies came round her, to assist in the adjustment of the bridal ornaments, they thought they had never seen her look half so beautiful. en The Happy Valley: Sketches of Kashmir & the Kashmiris William Wakefield 1879 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington London 2 https://archive.org/details/happyvalleysket00wakegoog/page/n22/mode/1up It is however to the northernmost portion of this immense mountain range that I wish more particularly to draw the attention of my readers; for here, beyond the rugged ridges that skirt the Punjab, whose snow-clad peaks are discernible by the traveller long before his arrival at their base, lies the country we are about to visit—the far-famed Vale of Kashmir, the ‘Happy Valley,’ the scene of the poet Moore’s inimitable Lalla Rookh. en Lora Bryning Redford; Nathan Goldstein Getting to know the northern Himalayas: Kashmir, Tibet, Assam 1964 Coward-McCann About the book New York 64-10439 1729210 In between, we travel on a luxurious houseboat in “Happy Valley,” the famed Vale of Kashmir, as well as visit the “Chang Thang,” the desolate plains of Tibet, sometimes called “the roof of the world.” en town rural city:Pref/Swan Hill north western s/Victoria c/Australia Translations area in Hong Kong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 快活谷, yue 跑馬地 Mandarin: cmn 快活谷, cmn 跑馬地 Further reading Happy Valley Tagalog Etymology tl :der en:happy valley + Pronunciation hapi vali Ha.ppy Va.lley Proper noun en happy Happy en valley Valley hapi vali tl barangay mun/Dinalupihan p/Bataan c/Philippines tl barangay mun/Tambulig p/Zamboanga del Sur c/Philippines