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Published: November 1st 2009
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This is our last day. This morning we headed off over to HK Island to use the mid level escalators, which we are told, climb a mile from the bottom at Central to maybe half way up the mountain. The escalator serves all the people living from those levels who live in the immediate densely populated areas. Otherwise the local streets are crosshatched all the way, so access is Ok if you have transport or use a bus. Each escalator is of normal length, it is just a matter of swapping onto the next climbing escalator. They run down to about 10.25am each day and swap to up for the rest of the day. We found the directions for the starting point by searching on Google. After finding two options, the second seemed Ok and it worked first try. We took a short break about half way up and Maurs bought some teacups at a store. During one break point we found a Vet in a street and I guess he helps all the locals with their dogs. A little further up we found some Bunyan trees that grew completely on rock faces; it was as though their root systems had
been thrown and smashed up against the retaining wall and the tree just hung on and grew outwards and upwards. The escalators finished at Conduit Rd. I think most of the people living in that area had some money because most of the cars up there were expensive European imports. Instead of taking stairs down, we waked back down using local streets and switching back every 200-300m, so it became a gentle walk down. At one stage we found some local cats that I imagine locals were looking after for they were eating cat food in trays that had been left out. Then we came across a market, which was for all purposes, a straight downward running laneway. It was amazing how the people made the best of the space and it was clean despite the density in those places. We caught the ferry back to Kowloon and headed for Kowloon Park to find Kung Fu corner. On the way thru the park we stopped to see the flamingos once more, they were just as pretty as last time and we found a tug of war competition over behind the police station area in the park. Teams were competing against
Bunyan Tree near mid level escalator
Having won the battle to find a place to live one another, it was a serious affair, and they had their own contained sand track especially made for the purpose. We then found Kung Fu corner near the sculptures near the back of the mosque. They had young kids and men & women doing their different routines and one guy even used a sword that made wind noises as he swished it around (I just hope he never let go like some of the MLB baseball players do). A dragon then came out with two men inside and the show was accompanied with drums and the performance lasted about ½ hour. Therefore, that was it. We fly out tonite.
It has been a wonderful trip and I will not miss the street hawkers or the constant sound of trolleys being pushed and pulled along the footpaths. The friendliest city we encountered was probably Nagasaki, they obviously tried harder to impress visitors.
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raewyn
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been a long time,
It has been great to follow you on your trip but it seems a very long time so I will be pleased to have you home, I am looking forward to seeing your photos, Hope you had a good flight from Hong Kong to Perth. It will be lovely for you to spend a couple of days with Bernadine and Ross just to finish off your holiday. It will be fun to remaniss? (not sure of spelling). Looking forward to seeing you soon. Luv Raewyn.