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Hong Kong Adventure |
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Well ladies and gentleman here are some pictures of my mishaps in Hong Kong. Unforutnatly i didn't take many. |
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April 27th, 2006
Narita Airport
We are on are way to Hong Kong.
With much joy and optimism. |
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Adriane Ivan Leo |
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Place your mouse over this pic for a second pick. Many pics have a second pic behind them on this site. |
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Day 1 - Central, cloudy and rainy. |
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We visited many places in Hong Kong one of them was Kowloon Island.
Oh boy is it humid. |
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This is were the Hong Kong wall of fame starts. |
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The walk of fame is along the coast. With Bruce Lee as guard and Jackie Chan lurking. |
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Bruce Lee in Kung Fu pose. No shirt becuase its humid. |
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I have to say that the view was wonderful.
However, it was still humid. Talk about sticky. |
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Day ? - This is Central Island at night, picture taken at Points Peak. |
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So here we are at Aberdeen Harbor. People live on boats in this harbor. As shown in the hidden picture.
I enjoyed the 25 minute boat ride, which left a nice big smile on my face. Unlike my comrades here.
Maybe it's to humid.
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Leo and Adriane on a boat ride in Aberdeen. |
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Welcome to Nathan |
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We all decided that we would take a day off from each other and go our seperate ways. |
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I have to say i enjoyed my time at Nathan on Central Island. It has nice street shops with an open air shoping mall that not only has a temple in it, it also has a McDonald's.
I even took a swim at the beach, not the best waters, but it was a bit humid so i said what the heck. |
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Nathan |
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While at Nathan I decided to do some walking of the main tourist roads. I found my way to this cemetary. Buried here are various service man that helped protect Hong Kong during WWII, as well as local people as far back late 1800's. |
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Cemetary at Nathan. WWII Memorial |
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Capped of my side trip with a nice swim at the beach. |
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Relax Time |
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On to Macau |
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We actually tried to go to Macau twice. The first time we forgot our passports and the second time we had some issues at immigration, but we eventually made it. |
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It takes over an hour to get to Macau from Central. A former Portugese colony, there are still remenants of the language and architecture throughout the city. |
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McMacau |
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Aside from gambling there really is not much to do on Macau.
The picture on the left shows a nice picture of a little girl talking to her grandma, however, i find the picture behind it a bit more close to home.
"Remember to smile" |
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Life imitating art. |
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On the final leg of our trip, Myself, Adriane, and Leo walked back to the harbor to catch the boat back to Central.
Unfortunantly I didn't get to gamble. Maybe, next time. |
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Harbor |
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Hong Kong International Airport |
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Well i suppose it had to end. We got to the Airport around 6:30 AM and waited to go home. The trip lasted an entire week, of which I can say was quite worth my time. |
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At the airport, all the smokers are required to smoke behind a glass wall. I felt the urge to tap on the glass and see if they react the same way as fish.
But, alas my efforts were thwarted. |
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Smokers' Alley |
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The trip began on April 27th and ended on May 4th. It had its ups and its downs, but I'd like to think that the ups, far outweigh the downs. I give my thanks to my travel parters becuase without them, I would of had to argue with myself.
Bests,
Ivan Del Real
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