Our excursion started with a ride on a Sampan through the marina. Lots of beautiful boats and lots of house boats that looked horrible. But we had fun. It does bob up and down a bit.
We did go by what we were told was the biggest floating restaurant in the world. It looked big to me but we never ate there.
Then we went to the Stanley Market. Lots of fun. We bought a few things so come over to our house and look around. That is after we get home in June.
It isn’t just the market that was fun. This Banyan tree was pretty special so it was used to sell things. We then went to Victoria Park at the top of the hill for great views of the city. NOT!. It was cloudy and foggy. We saw nothing.
We got back to our ship at 2 PM. So we went to lunch in the Café. At about 2:30 this was the view of the city. It rained for an hour with lots of thunder and lightning. We were told the next day that 9 people died from the lightning. The view actually got worse than this but why take a photo of pure black.
The city of Hong Kong is very interesting. Supposedly there are over 1000 skyscrapers in this city. More than even New York City. The best story involves these buildings. The tall building with mostly triangles was designed by IM Pei the same guy who did the entry to the Louvre in Paris. But the Chinese don’t like the building because it doesn’t conform. It is called a dagger. So the bank building three buildings to the right ( the one with sort of a ladder up the side) has two cannons at the top. Our cannons are much stronger than your simple dagger! Funny. And Disney uses this building in there displays in Hong Kong Disneyland. Keep reading the blogs.
With so many tall buildings travel can be difficult. So if you can afford it another way to travel to work efficiently is by helicopter. This one is just landing at the top of an apartment building. Pretty cool.
At 8 every night there is a light show. Compared to Disney in Florida it is very lame. But the buildings are all lite and the harbor is very pretty. We had a good day once the rain quit.
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