After a whirlwind trip to Vietnam, it was odd to be back in Hong Kong and realizing that a rest day was in order. After all, Hong Kong is still a new, exciting place with so much to offer. After being deathly ill, and traveling from one end of the country to another, however, my body just couldn't take much more. The day was nice, however, so lunch in the seaside expat Sai Kung wasn't too much.
On the way to eat, I passed this...reminds me of home a little!
Jaspa's had excellent food - poached salmon on a "bed".
Looking out at Inner Port Shelter harbor.
Looking back from the pier at Sai Kung proper.
Then it was off to the Hong Kong Museum of History, one of my favorite museums of all time.
Hong Kong junk, a traditional boat for fishing, and living.
Life size replicas of the
Chueng Chau Bun Festival bun towers. Young HK boys and men would race up the structure to grab the highest bun - the higher the better luck you would have for the year.
The most impressive part of the Museum is the full size replica of the HK waterfront wharf...
...and a typical HK street from the earlier part of last century.
The street even had shops from the era. These were not replicas - often when a traditional shop was about to close down, the Museum would buy everything in the store, from the shelves to the goods on the shelves and reinstall it in the museum as a reminder of what HK used to be like.
One of the trams in it's original glory.
One of the streets on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong, light up like a circus.
