Here is our cruise ship. Our cabin is the one with the window 2nd from the back. We expected something a bit more luxurious, but such is life, I suppose.
Going to explore Hong Kong for the day. This is an overview.
Big container ports. 20 million containers a year pass through here.
But that dwarfs the number of visitors to Hong Kong each year — 45 million.
A new airport and a bustling city. These are a couple of famous pics of how airplanes used to land at the old airport in Hong Kong “back in the day” 🙂
Looks like the ship has docked right into the city 🙂
“Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun”, Noel Coward wrote after seeing colonial life in Hong Kong. Hot for sure. But cool too.
The British Governors are long gone, but they surely left a lasting influence.
Impressive city. Tonight we push off for Taiwan.
Onward! -JB