Photo's

Yes, yesterday I had some free time on my hands to look at all the photo's I made during my Hong Kong trip. I had to delete a lot of pictures, espacially those taking during the night due the awful quality. Digital Camera's can't compete with SLR on that part of the field.

You can view them at http://picasaweb.google.com/Tyndell/HongKong . If you also want to see the pictures of my Japan trip just go to http://picasaweb.google.com/Tyndell and select the day you want to view.

My Canon automatically makes folder for each day which I used during the Japan trip. The olympus however makes on folder containing all the pictures but formats the name of images in day/month/year. I was to lazy to make seperate folder so bare with me.

Greetz,

TyKH

Busy

I'm so busy at the moment with work and school that I didn't had the time to post the pictures I made and give full story telling about Hong Kong.
Of course, I have unpacked all the clothing but I haven't ironed it yet. I'm also waiting for my package which I send from Hong Kong to myself. Too much clothing :D

When I have some space in my schedule I will try to post the pictures.

Greetz,

TyKH

Departing tommorow

I'm rounding up the last bits now. I have bought the souvenirs, packed my stuff (18 kg) and thinking about all the things I have to do when I get back.

The plan for tommorow is quite simpel. We're leaving at 23:50 witht the plane so I can do some things during the day. Alex has been occupied with family visits the last days so I was on my own.

I do have to send some clothing by plane. My stuff exceeds the 20 kg limit and with the 1 kg/120 euro ratio I rather ship it for around 30,- ;). But with my Chinese handicap I hope Alex can let his aunt send my stuff just as he does.

I'll post the list of purchases when I'm back in Amsterdam. It would be hassle to unpack everything. Just for the fols who had specific requests: You'll be disapointed.

Well, that were the few things I had to say. I will do a post which consist of my experience of the vacation in Hong Kong.

See you all in Amsterdam ;). And for the people who are taking their vacation shortly, have a save trip!

Greetz,

TyKH

Limited Movement

Folks,

My last post was six days ago. You could say unacceptable but I haven't done anythings what would interest you.

I've visited the largest Buddha that exists. A nice trip with a cable car and then a lot of stairs resulted in a face to face meeting with the holy statue. I wish I could upload the 4 minute long video but it is 444 MB, a bit too big to upload.



A few days ago I had a beach barbeque with the Alex, his sister and her friend and the family I'm staying with during the vacation. It was a rainy day but as you can see we had good cover.



I've also seen the origin of the flag: Bauhinia blakeana statue. This flower is shown on the flag of Hong Kong. The British Kingdom gave this flower when Hong Kong was officialy handed over to China. Let me take the oppurtinity to clarify something;
Hong Kong officialy belongs to China. On the side note Hong Kong has it's own regulations, own laws and it's own separate goverment. As I told in my "The Spa" post you even need to a passport to travel to Hong Kong to China and vica versa. Another thing, in Hong Kong the population speaks Cantonese as in China Mandarion is the mainly used language. Further more, people from Hong Kong don't want be refered as Chinese but has Hongkonese.

I find it fair to say that there are two different countries. Oke moving on..



These were my tourist activities in the past days. The vacation is starting to end. 14th of July I'm departing so I'm again in shopping mode. I even purchased a PSP :). I will have new post on the 13th.

Greetz,

TyKH

Bad weather

I've haven't posted in a while and that is due the fact I've not done anything exciting in the last days. Hong Kong has been tortured by bad weather - a lot of rain. Because of the rain I cannot visit the tourist spots.

The picture above is from the highest peak of Hong Kong named Victoria Peak. I have made more pictures and I'll post those on Picasa when I'm back in the Netherlands. I have refrained myself from taking night pictures. Alex has his expensive SLR camera, it would be a shame not to make use of that quality :P.

If we are lucky today, we can visit a large Buddha on top of a hill but it depends on the weather. The forecast wasn't that positive though :(

To keep you hungry here are some pictures of the food I have eaten during the vacation.

Halfway

Yes, the vacation is halfway now. Vacation flies by when you're having fun.

To be honest, I've not done so many things. I've been shopping, to a spa in China and again shopping. I've added new collection Ray-ban sunglasses and Bathing Ape t-shirts to my list.

Today I've visit my first tourist spot. The Victoria bay of Hong Kong. Every evening they display a light show. I must say, the light show itself wasn't that impressive but the view of the bay was gorgeous. The night pictures are not good quality. We will be visiting it another day so Alex can take pictures with his new Nikon SLR camera.

Tomorrow I will visit the highest peak of Hong Kong to have another unforgettable view of the country.