Amazing TRANSPORTATION !
This city has it all figured out!
The underground subway system is: extensive
affordable
clean
safe
efficient
popular
......a great way to get around! There is no need to own a car in Hong Kong.
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| Electric streetcars, but double-decker!!! |
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| A store selling sea-food......Notice the extreme lighting! |
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| Certainly one of the seafood capitals of the world!! |
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| Specialty items and Chinese medicine |
A little variety: sausages:
So many strange foods........
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| It was wonderful to have Sanwa there with us, explaining things like the "bird saliva nests", in detail. |
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| CHINESE MEDICINE |
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| A popular shopping street |
And, a busy "bus street".... (pictured here are the 16-passenger buses)......
Click here to see the beautiful, shiny, new, double-decker buses in action.
Click here for more of the new buses on Nathan Road !
Lately, we seem to be fascinated with
Air and Space Museums,
visiting them in each great city. Each time, we have watched 3-D I-MAX shows about Astronomy, the International Space Station, Solar Flares, Long-distance Space Travel......
A-Kay is proud of China's recent space program.
For one of many things, we learned about China's role in inventing the compass:
Wherever we go,
Chris finds beautiful flowers to photograph:
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| Orchids are HUGE for Chinese New Year and Spring Festival! |
There were whole markets full of orchids.
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| This is probably a famous sign in Old Hong Kong. |
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