2 posts tagged “history”
Kat presents her insights on a little of the history of Hong Kong. With locations covering Kowloon to Lantau Island to the heart of Hong Kong, Kat helps us to understand the conflict of the Opium wars and the ancient tradition of foot binding. She puts it all in her own perspective.
You can click here for the full size version of her report, and like always, if you are on a slower connection it is best to click play, pause it for 5-10 seconds so the file download can get a head start, and then click play. It should play smoother using the play-pause-play strategy.
We are still having difficulty with the failed (fried) power transformer. It has really put a crimp in our video production process. But it has not affected our prodigious quantity of photos. One thing we have learned this trip is Kat is one heck of a shooter. While Darcy has been lugging around the Nikon, Kat has been shooting with our little Canon. We are thrilled we tucked that into her purse because not only are the images well seen and composed, but it gives a perspective to the holiday that is not from the adults. We are really enjoying the different perspective. So as you look at the photos and note the file name, if it starts with “img” you can know that is from Kat’s camera.
Thursday was a water day. August and dad started the day early going back and forth on the Star Ferry a few times to shoot his story about transportation. The entire family connected for a trip to Kowloon (on the other side of the bay, about 7 minutes away) and the Museum of History. In hindsight we should have started our trip here. We had intended to, but there were too many events that were day and date dependent so it got pushed back. It really gave us a much better perspective on life here in Hong Kong.
We spent the afternoon cruising the harbor on a junk. To be honest, it wasn’t a real junk, at least we are assuming on a real junk they don’t offer you peach drinks while you are reclining on a pillow. This was the upscale sanitized version of a “junk” experience. But it was a blast all the same. The kids were in heaven as they hung out on the deck under the orange sails, running from rail to rail watching the harbor traffic up close and personal. The scale of the city from the water is almost overwhelming. We have cricks in our necks from looking up at tower after tower. Manhattan’s skyscrapers are massive. While there are some big honking buildings here, many, if not most, are impossibly skinny. When you scatter a community that looks like a jar full of drinking straws across mountains and hillsides, you get Hong Kong.
So there are plenty of new photos from Lantau Island and the the Junk. We will keep trying to get the next few videos finished. It would be nice to get those up.
