This is on the Ferry to Hong Kong. There was a really cute little girl that kept making faces with me so I made silver teeth out of a gum wrapper. Top that, toddler.
When we arrived in Hong Kong, we took a bus from the ferry station, to a street near the hotel, grabbed a bite to eat, checked our bags and hopped on a bus to Ocean Land theme park. This is the view on the way. The Ocean is amazing, the first blue water I've seen here. I'd love to live in Hong Kong for a while but they really only speak Cantonese there.
Inside Ocean Park, touted as the world's longest escalator. There are four of them leading to the top of the park and stopping at various attractions on the way.
Here's the view from almost the top of Ocean park. Seeing the blue water in person after months here in yellow/brown oceaned Zhuhai really stirred some emotions in me.
A panoramic of the cove.
They weren't that amazing.
There was a subway from the top of the hill on the right down to the bottom of the park where the animals were with sky cars running parallel to it.
What's China without Pandas?
They were pretty lazy though.
These are red pandas. They look just like raccoons, but they eat bamboo and probably won't claw your eyes out, so they're classified as pandas.
Survival of the fittest?
They had a balloon ride, but the weather was bad so we couldn't go.
We found the entrance to the sky cars and there was no line!
A very long scenic ride to the end of the peninsula.
It started to rain, so we left Ocean Park and went to find some grub. We landed in a tasty noodle place, not the barbeque pictured here. This one was right next to our hotel.
Even late night, the streets were still really bright with neon signs everywhere.
This was a cool walking street. I saw a lot of tourists getting ripped off though with hats and scarves and the like. It works out because they think its cheap, so both parties win.
This was inside a mall, this store on the right was pretty large and filled only with arcade style portrait shoots. Asians love them.
We went out for a late night walk to the Avenue of the Stars. It was a cool foot road with tiles for Chinese movie stars, like on Hollywood Blvd.
The lights on the buildings are really something. It goes on for 60 degrees in either direction of this photo.
My buddy Bruce Lee and I.
Hong Kong drives on the wrong side of the road. It was interesting to see though, that on stairs going into subways, people still walked on the right side of the staircase despite living in a society that drives on the left. Perhaps its human nature?
I dropped Pearl off at the airport and got on my way. Almost all the buses in Hong Kong were double deckered, pretty neat. I met a sweet old lady that gave me a map and helped guide me to the right bus. I went to the Macau ferry station this time because Macau is closer to my house than the Zhuhai ferry station. I waited hours in customs to leave Hong Kong, took the ferry, waited hours in customs to get into Macau, took a shuttle to a casino, walked to another casino and waited for a shuttle to the border, waited a few minutes in customs and finally walked home. It was a long day, but I had movies on my phone and got to say I was in 3 countries in one day (although they are all technically China).
Until next time everybody!
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