This reminded me of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in the middle of the city there is a huge park. The little pink dots you see by the lake are Flamingos.
What am I eating? Looks pretty interesting.
It is actually just waffle mix cooked in a different shaped waffle iron.
Hong Kong has a complex history. It has been a Chinese territory, colonized by the British, occupied by Japan, a British crown colony and transfered to the People's Republic of China. It is currently one of the world's leading financial centers and growing. They have the second highest value of IPO (company issues common stock to the public for the fist time); first place is London.
Here is a picture of the Hong Kong skyline in 1950.
Here is the Hong Kong skyline as of July 2008. Pretty impressive growth!
It took 5 shots to try to get it all in and I still didn't capture what was further off to the left.
This is the 2 International Finance Centre. It is currently the tallest building in Hong Kong.
However, it will only be the tallest building in Hong Kong for another few years. The International Commerce Center is currently planned to be completed in 2010 and will be 80 meters taller than 2 International finance Centre.
This is the view from the 45th floor. It looks like a forest of buildings. I cannot see a street anywhere.
The land looks very densely populated and that's because it is. The overall density is more than 6,407 people per square kilometer versus the United States which is about 31 people per square kilometer. However, the fertility rate is .95 children per woman which is one of the lowest in the world.
When looking and the Finance Centre, it looked taller than Taipei 101 to me.
What do you think? Here are the stats:
Number of floors: Finance Centre 90, Taipei 101 101
Height to the roof: Finance Centre 406.9m, Taipei 101 448m
World height ranking: Finance Centre #6, Taipei 101 #1
Think tall buildings are neat? Here is the link, in case you missed it from the previous post. Tall buildings are neat.
This was something I saw pretty often when walking around.
What is over to the right? Historic monuments? Or maybe they don't want me to see what is on the left? No, they are trying to remind everyone who comes from a land where you drive on the right side of the road to look in the correct direction for oncoming cars, they drive on the left side of the road. Probably due to the British influence.
When Brian returned from his meetings we walked around to find a place for dinner and found a great street. All the little restaurants were lined up side by side. One would be Italian, then French, then Spanish, Thai, and so on. There were probably around a dozen or so restaurants offering different varieties of food.
I tried to get a picture of the street but, not sure it is represented well in this photograph.
You can see the flags descending off into the distance, each one of strings of flags was for a different restaurant.
Although Brian and I are not major fans of French foods, I am a huge fan of their desserts. Brian and I went to the French restaurant each night we were there to try items on their dessert menu.
Here is a chocolate soufflé and some sorbet. My favorite items were the soufflé and cheese plate.
Would you like to learn more about Hong Kong? Please go to the following link: Hong Kong.
