Walking in Hong Kong

You know that song, "Walking in LA, Walking in LA-A, nobody walks in LA..." Well, everybody walks in Hong Kong! ;) As did we, and quite a bit!! These were taken outside our hotel, it is in the foreground of this photo. I didn't venture too far while Chris was in meetings, so I basically just stayed close to the hotel which was a pretty business-centric district. The street below is Queen's Boulevard. It was always super busy. Look at how much higher the buildings on the right are than those on the left- the island is just so steep and this was less than a mile from the coastline. This building might not look that cool during the day, it is really tall of course, but the cool thing is that at night, the parts where you see white color are lighted up and the lights change colors and formation throughout the night. Really cool.
I liked the juxtaposition of the old and new here in the skyline. The building on the left was right across the street from our hotel and there was a courtyard where people were eating lunch when I took this picture. The tall building on the right has some of the PwC offices in it, but it wasn't the building that Chris' meetings were in.
Fountain in the courtyard near that older building...A relatively new sight in Hong Kong- the Chinese flag. Technically Hong Kong is considered a "Special Administrative Region" and there are still 40 years until we will know whether it will become fully incorporated into China. The British had annexed the territory for 100 years which expired in 1997, so they have only been part of China for the last 10 years. Everything is in English and Chinese as far as street signs, names of buildings, etc.
This is the building that Chris' meetings were in. It was connected to our hotel via a skybridge. The cool thing about Hong Kong is that pretty much all of the buildings in this part of town are connected, either via a skybridge or underground through the MTR stations. Also, there are covered walkways all the way from where the ferries dock at the shore to these buildings as well. Therefore walkers are kept out of the sun and rain on their way to and from work.

Initial snippets... more to come, I promise!