DAY 12 [ Hong Kong ] : This Trip Is Ferry Nice...

First thing today we catch a ferry accross the bay to Hong Kong Island. From the bay you can really get a beautiful view of the city. The sky scrapers are modern, well over 60 stories and so dense they all look connected. This in conjunction with the placed looking trees and the emence super highways, it looks as if we are trapped inside a model trainset.

We took the long walk to the tram that will take us to Victorias Peak, the highest point in Hong Kong. I can't quite put into words just how amazing the vista is from here. You can see all of the bay, around the back side of Hong Kong island and off into the ocean. Shipping is huge here and in the distance you can see hundreds of giant orange and red spider-like cranes lifting thousands of multi-colored, semi truck sized, cargo boxes into giant stacks for sorting.





It's well over 100º F and again we are soaked to the core. Me so much that you can see the white rings of salt from my sweat on my black t-shirt.

We rested headed over to a temple and looked for as many places to duck into for a blast of A/C.

We took a round about ride on the metro around Kowloon to see more of the bay ending up at our only sunset in Hong Kong. I don't know if I have every been more in the prefect place at the perfect time. We couldn't have planned it any better.