The entrance	The roof-top pool (42nd floor)
The view of the city is spectacular
Hong Kong Island changes all the time	It's 6 years since Laurie was here and there are so many new buildings
The 'Walkway of the Stars'	A lot of the frontage to Kowloon has been improved
	the number of people and buzz of the place is stil there, although much more Chinese

Wednesday 11^th November 

We get off to a bad start by sleeping until 10am.  Breakfast was a rush before it finished at 10.30!

We set off for Lantou Island to visit the Tian Tan Buddha statue via the cable car up the mountain.  Our fellow passengers in the cabin were happy to tell us of all the accidents that have happened to the cable car, including units falling off the cable.  Great!

	Gene Bear enjoys the view
It's getting high and this is only the first stage!	The airport
Our first sight of the huge buddha
	...it's popular
	Gene Buddha
	It is a beautiful setting
The HSBC building is now dwarfed by it's neighbours	The old and the new
	We go up the Peak Tram to view the lights coming on in the city
It's still daylight when we arrive	...but as the sun sets....the lights come on
by the time it's fully dark...wow!	We ate in Fat Angelo's .. a past favourite of Laurie's
the Christmas lights are up, which all seems a bit strange in this heat

Thursday 12^th November 

Another day wandering the streets of the city, shopping and looking

Reclamation Street, fully of building materials	good medicine
By nightfall it's raining and the cloud is low
	More Christmas lights
At 8pm every evening the riverside buildings darken and a spectacular light display to music is performed with lights all over the city on top of the skyscrapers.

Friday 13^th November 

Our last day in Hong Kong and we go to Ladies Market as it opens

Ladies Market is awakening
...so many choices
	The shopping Mall adjacent to our hotel
again the contrast of the new and 'not so new'
	Our hotel was so posh that you had personal TV's in the gents loos!
Nice bars too!	Farewell Hong Kong!