A field trip A field trip

A field trip

Back to school life, this is a picture of one of the 3 major sewage treatment facilities in Hong Kong (situated in Yuen Long, North-West upper territories). Inside this aeration tank billions and billions of aerobic-microbes are feasting on the sewage waste. As you can imagine it wasn’t a very pleasant smell. (one crazy story told was that: once they started getting millions of HK dollars floating in the sewage (durring the screening stage) and after investigation it was found that money, illegally obtained, had been dumped in public toilets because the thieves had no other way to dispose of it)


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Chinese/Hong Kong  Flag Occupied by the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was formally ceded by China the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the 19th century. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on 19 December 1984, Hong Kong became the Hong Kon... [read more]
Blog: Beyond the Buzz...
Date: November 13th 2005

After mazeing through the noisy, busy streets and feeling like a little bee in one of the billions of concrete honey comb quarters, at last, mostly durring weekends, I’m discovering all the rest of Hong Kong; the mountains, and beaches, and forests, and islands,…………………… Here are a few pictures that should fill in the blank: . . . ... read more




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Cynthia Sindinah
On a student exchange program in Hong Kong as a full time Chemical Engineering student. ... full info
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