The botanical garden, with a war monument archway
Next, we walked by Government House, which I think is where the Hong Kong governor used to live. Now they have a chief executive and a legislative assembly. There is also a mayor of Hong Kong municipal district.
Government House
I'd noticed that a number of buildings had a kind of scaffolding frame on them. It looked pretty scary to me.
Scaffolding commonly seen on tall buildings
Got to the CBD, and Chris and Lisa went their separate way.
Katherine decided to take me to see the trams.
I thought Hong Kong had only the Peak "tram". but they have all of these skinny, old, double decker trams too!
Double decker trams
A diamond in a credit card - why not?
Me on the tram
We walked up a hill to see the main Hong Kong University.
Political banner ad
Police stand by, watching pedestrians jaywalk (unlike in Melbourne)!
A reminder that cars drive on the left in Hong Kong (this was actually a one-way street)
Mmm! Chicken's feet!
Bauhinia Blakeana, the national flower of Hong Kong
The university had an exhibition about the silk road.
A figure from when China was ruled by a Mongolian dynasty
An intricately carved wood door
A chair made out of wood and antlers
Old Chinese coins
A silk road God
Chinese pottery ("China")
Stone carving with Chinese writing from around 1100 AD
Embroidery
Chinese Chess set
Then we walked around the campus and had some afternoon tea. I had a pork bun and tea. Really like the Chinese tea!
Back down at the bottom of the hill, there were more stores selling weird things, so I asked Katherine what they were. Apparently it's mostly seafood, with things like dried shrimp, dried abalone, dried shredded squid, mushrooms, and shark fin.
Dried seafood, abalone on the middle left
Stuff at the bottom of shot is from Australia, stuff at the top is shark fin
Then Katherine put me on the Tsuen Wan mini bus. Luckily I got on, because at the next stop the bus filled up and some passengers couldn't get on.
It was an interesting trip. The bus had a big LED speed sign which beeped when the driver went over 80 km/h. The trip cost $15 HKD, which is more expensive than the MTR trains. Went over a bridge and then down into a tunnel. Got a good view of many things, including some sports parks. The ride finished at Tsuen Wan near the walled garden.
Went to bed around 6pm because I was starting work at 1am.
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