We waved goodbye to Sydney and Australia on 26th June 2008 and did the 10 hour flight to Hong Kong.
We've included a photo of the Sydney Opera House at night, as our parting tip of the hat. The photo does not do it justice, as no matter what setting we seemed to put it the camera on, it just would not take a clear distance night shot. Nevermind.
Hong Kong; what an amazing place!
We are coming back here in 3 weeks time and only had 2 full days to visit before flying to Vietnam, so we crammed in as much as we could.
Where we stayed was connected by a walkway into a shopping plaza and one of the first shops you see is Marks & Spencer; so Shivani insisted on having her photo taken in front of it. Andrew did point out that now we look just like those Chinese tourists do when they take photos of strange things in England.
The next photos are of a Buddhist Temple in the mountains of Sha Tin, which is where we stayed. Sha Tin that is, not the temple. We actually stayed in a beautiful hotel called The Royal Park. The temple is famous for having over 10,000 different Buddhas. We counted at least 12,500! The pathway up to the temple was more of a hike than a walk, but was well worth it and was lined with many life-size Buddhas in gold and full colour. Once at the top it was very peaceful and all you could hear was a song bird singing - very poetic, but true. The walk back was much easier - all downhill. We then headed into the City, but we'll tell you about that on the next post.
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