Well my time in HK is drawing to a close, and I must say that I wish it wasn't just yet. I compared HK to Singapore in my head when booking the Cathay Pacific flight - thinking I'd like to try HK for something new. The gamble has payed off, and not only in the sense that I saved money on the flight. I've enjoyed HK, and would like to come back here some time.
Maybe it's the escape form 'normal life', maybe it's the surprise at my almost lavish accom (with comfortingly familiar 70's church song-elevator music played throughout), or the cool people I met on the tour (a multi-religion teacher from Sydney on a 12 month sabatical), or the amusing hooks the shop sellers use ("Hey, remember me?!" playing on the 'they all look the same' syndrome), or the intersting sotries behind some of the stranger sights ("feng-shui fake guns on business buildings, and hotels with holes built in them so the lucky dragon/s are able to bring up riches from the ocean. No kidding!).
Hong Kong is also faily multi-cultural, with Chinese, HK and other asians together. Even the once really poor, now able to employ others Tankanese (?) boat people (we saw at Aberdeen) have their own language and culture and just live in the harbour out of hte way on their own. At one stage these guys paid tax in eggs and fish, now they buy air-cons and TVs and employ people from mainland China to go out to sea to do their fishing!
I do regret not being here for a proper night. The sun is starting to set now, but I'm on my way to the airport in less than 2 hrs, and I didn't get in until nearly 11pm last night. (If only I'd known about the Ned Kelly bar - free jazz band from 9pm - 1am). (I've also missed out on the Space Museum, Imax shows and Arts museum which are all closed on Tuesdays!). So yeah, some time in the future I'd like to return and spend a few days here... and do the tour that includes dinner at the revolving restaurant followed by a cruise on the harbour with unlimited drinks.
The steps behind the Cultural Centre, overlooking Victoria Harbour
Maybe it's the escape form 'normal life', maybe it's the surprise at my almost lavish accom (with comfortingly familiar 70's church song-elevator music played throughout), or the cool people I met on the tour (a multi-religion teacher from Sydney on a 12 month sabatical), or the amusing hooks the shop sellers use ("Hey, remember me?!" playing on the 'they all look the same' syndrome), or the intersting sotries behind some of the stranger sights ("feng-shui fake guns on business buildings, and hotels with holes built in them so the lucky dragon/s are able to bring up riches from the ocean. No kidding!).
Hong Kong is also faily multi-cultural, with Chinese, HK and other asians together. Even the once really poor, now able to employ others Tankanese (?) boat people (we saw at Aberdeen) have their own language and culture and just live in the harbour out of hte way on their own. At one stage these guys paid tax in eggs and fish, now they buy air-cons and TVs and employ people from mainland China to go out to sea to do their fishing!
I do regret not being here for a proper night. The sun is starting to set now, but I'm on my way to the airport in less than 2 hrs, and I didn't get in until nearly 11pm last night. (If only I'd known about the Ned Kelly bar - free jazz band from 9pm - 1am). (I've also missed out on the Space Museum, Imax shows and Arts museum which are all closed on Tuesdays!). So yeah, some time in the future I'd like to return and spend a few days here... and do the tour that includes dinner at the revolving restaurant followed by a cruise on the harbour with unlimited drinks.
The steps behind the Cultural Centre, overlooking Victoria Harbour
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