Jet-lagged and sweaty!

Trip Start Jun 03, 2006
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

I've got rotten jet-lag and I'm dripping with sweat even at 6 in the morning. There will be 2 or 3 changes of clothes today. There's nobody around to disturb my bleary observation of Hong Kong this morning. My body feels pretty rotten, truth be known, but somehow it's ok, because this is one of my favourite cities on earth. Not even the near disaster of finding there was no hotel shuttle from the Airport Shuttle and then getting a Cantonese speaking taxi driver could dampen my mood on arrival. Now, I don't really know whether I'm coming or going, but it's ok because it's Hong Kong. I feel incredibly safe too, which can't be said for fatigued travellers in many cities.

So it is that I get to ponder my future on the Hong Kong waterfront waiting for the city to wake up. It is the first step on a journey to I don't know where. I suppose Hong Kong is a pretty good gateway to begin that journey... 01. East to HK Island
01. East to HK Island
 . Maybe head off to see the fabled Big Buddha on Lantau.


Postscript: Lantau is quite a nice place, and for hiking and camping looks like it would be a fantastic escape from the high-speed life of HK Island and Kowloon, but the Big Buddha is quite a let down. It reminds me of the crude exploitative tourism of mainland China rather than the more natural feel of Hong Kong. Actually, there are bits of HK which sort of concern me now. You can see how rapidly it's developed and I can't help wondering just how they can maintain the builidngs and infrastructure stuck onto the sides of the hills. It's beautiful and stunning, and I hope and pray that it doesn't become some sort of latter day Atlantis, or Acropolis crumbling slowly or sliding into the sea as resources drain north to mainland China.
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