After spending a few days at Hong Kong Disneyland we took a day tour of Hong Kong Island. Here we are at Victoria Peak - a high point on the island - looking down on the city. It was a bit foggy.
Here we are waiting for the tram to go up to the peak. It was a steep climb.
It was a bit cold and windy up there, but we braved the elements to get a few pictures.
Here's our tour guide, Alex, getting us pumped up.
We took a little boat ride at Aberdeen fishing village...
...in a boat that looked like this.
Some of the houseboats that people live on in the harbor, Alex calls them the boat people. There used to be a lot more of them, but each generation fewer and fewer of them remain. The younger generations choose to live a more traditional life on land. Interesting to think about what it would be like to live and make your livelihood on a boat.
Anna pooped out part way through the boat ride.
A BIG floating restaurant. I wanted to go there for dim sum, but it ended up not working out. A cool looking building, though.
We made a stop at Stanley Market - one of the big markets in Hong Kong. It reminded me of some of the markets we've been to in Japan - kind of like a maze in parts.
Later we made our way to our hotel on Kowloon peninsula, which was nearby this statue of Bruce Lee!
I wanted to take a picture in front of the statue, but there were a lot of people waiting so I snuck in behind him. Bruce Lee will never even see me coming.
A sign near the waterfront. It's crowded in Hong Kong.
We took the Star Ferry across the harbor back to Hong Kong island. It only cost about 35 cents in American money. The best deal in Hong Kong.
I think this is the tallest building in Hong Kong...but an even taller one is under construction!
On the left is the soon to be tallest building (or maybe it already is the tallest?) in Hong Kong. I couldn't see the top of it in the fog.
We stopped to take a picture of the skyline when we got off the ferry on Hong Kong island. We walked around a little bit before heading back across.
Here we are back on the Kowloon (hotel) side. A great view! The skyscrapers lined the harbor and not just in one spot, all the way along it. Definitely a huge business center.
Jackie Chan's star on the "Avenue of Stars"
They really light up the buildings there for Christmas. It was great! These are some of the buildings near out hotel in the Tsim Sha Tsui neighborhood.
After a busy day exploring I convinced Scott to eat out at a Vietnamese restaurant. He was wary of taking the kids to a nice place, and with good reason. The kids were a little crazy and it was kind of stressful, as it always is to eat out with kids, but the food was so amazing it was completely worth it. Here are some of our appetizers.
Our main course was a seafood hot pot. It had all kinds of seafood in this broth that tasted of coconut and citrus. It was so good and comforting after a long day. More Hong Kong adventures to come.
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