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November 29th 2010

Greetings from Asia!

We have made it to HK and the jet-lag is not bad considering the length of flight direct from Vancouver (nearly 15 hours). Our 3 days here has zipped by and we have enjoyed walking around various parts of the city, shopping in markets and eating/drinking some of the local foods and drinks.

Please enjoy some of the pictures....

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Svetla & Yasha Zibin
We are off to Southeast Asia!! It is Svetla's first trip "East", actually west from Canada, and the third time for me. We plan to visit Hong Kong for 3 days, then Indonesia for about 7 weeks before Malaysia and Southern Thailand for the remaining couple of weeks. We are pretty excited (and nervous) but all in all it should be a great adventure and we expect to have fun exploring some exotic areas of this marvelous world.... full info
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Victoria Harbour

A night stroll along the harbour front with laser and light show.
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Hike

On our way up to "The Peak"...we decided to walk it since it was a nice day.
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Walkways & Roadways

On our stroll up to the Peak.
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HK Island

The tall residential buildings with multi-million dollar apartments.
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Peak

At the top overlooking HK Island and Victoria Harbour.
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Repulse Bay

A view from our bus ride back from Stanley Market.
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Nice Store!

Good name for a high-end bra shop.
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Chinese Dinner

...and veggie too!






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