Walking Tour of Hong Kong....

We were welcomed to the Hong Kong Container Port Sunday March 9 by a spirited dragon dance and drumbeats. Ports try to outdo each other with their welcomes.

Hong Kong we were told, is the second largest container port in the world with Rotterdam number One. It is a very impressive site to see the cranes loading and unloading 18 wheeler containers. This picture doesn't do it justice and soon we will visit the #3 container port..Kuala Lumpur.

Phyllis is ready to begin our 4 hour walking tour of Hong Kong.

One of the benefits of a walking tour of the world's great cities is to see and yes, even smell how the people really live. Hanging your clothes out to dry from your apartment window is standard procedure. We couldn't help but wonder how the clothes are affected by the fumes and automobile exhaust.

Our walking tour included a street that must have had 25 shops selling all sorts of Chinese delicacies like these dried scallops..all sizes. If we are eating any of this dried food we don't want to know it. They also have dried oysters and squid.

Hong Kong is much bigger than it was when we first visited 10 years ago and their plan to make the Harbor frontage bigger by filling it in would neve have passed the Orient Code enforcer..thank God.

Check out the Chinese woman pushing her cart down a main street of Hong Kong Sunday morning.

We were fascinated and impressed with the bamboo scaffolding on this and other buildings undergoing repair or construction..good as steel, we guess.