4th April, 4pm HKT, Central.

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I spend the afternoon wandering around the city, hopping on and off the open trams which lumber around the city at $2 (18p) a time. The trams are an excellent vantage point to see the city - it’s like walking but you’re higher up and less likely to bump into things if you don’t look where you’re going. As before, the buildings are dizzily tall and festooned with laundry, advertisements and immense bamboo scaffolds. The roads are dug up in a random, impromptu style and taxis, buses and trams abound everywhere. Not even in that British tram haven of Blackpool would you find a tram-jam eight vehicles long. To be honest, we’d struggle to make that many buses arrive at once, but that’s probably only because buses can overtake each other.

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Photos

bamboo scaffolding
Quite a theme around here, I'm not sure I'd trust it but then I have to hold the handrail in transparent-sided lifts.