Wednesday 16 May 2007

Towers and Insects Part One: Towers


These last two days have been quite a good contrast; on Tuesday we took the Star Ferry over to Hong Kong Island to see all the famous architecture, and yesterday we went back to HK Island and this time took the tram up Victoria Peak and spent the day walking around the countryside.

The buildings in central HK are amazing. Each one is host to a famous brand or company, and they tower above you, like towers. We spent most of the day just staring up, and trying to take photos. Also upwards are the various birds of HK island, so we saw some of them at the same time. Kites are a common site here, they scavenge on waste but also fish in the harbour. They're pretty impressive and there are a lot of them! there also various parrots and mynah birds flying around; some long time escapees and others testament to the jungles that HK would have been before the bricks arrived. The expense and riches flows out of the buildings and into the people who live and work in the area so that nearly every car is an expensive Lexus or a Mercedes. The malls are upgraded too, full of extremely expensive shops and extremely wealthy looking business men of all races, and quite a few glamorous women too.

3 comments:

Mrs Otley said...
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Mrs Otley said...

The children at school want to kmow if they're red kites and if so please look out for ours....Valiant, wing tag 50.
Love, Mum

Mrs Otley said...

hay Patrick what are you doing to day see you later from kara and Rachael.