Hong Kong tour

Saturday, October 26, 2013
For our last full day, we took a tour of Hong Kong.

 Our first stop was the Hong Kong Convention Centre where there is a good view over the harbour.

 After that we went to the Aberdeen area, which used to be a fishing village. There are still some fishing boats as well as pleasure yachts moored there. There used to be no schools for the children of fishing families and they were all mostly restricted to living on their boats. Things have improved.

 Our next stop was the public beach at Repulse Bay, named after a British naval vessel. This is a really nice beach and not too crowded at this time of day.

 Prices for the apartments on the mountains behind Repulse Bay are astronomical.

 For lunch we dined at the Jumbo Restaurant at Aberdeen. We had to ferry out to it in a small boat. It's a famous restaurant where Queen Elizabeth and Tom Cruise, among other celebrities, are said to have dined.

A photo op at the Jumbo Restaurant.

The Jumbo restaurant is shaped like a big boat but it's masonry construction. There are a lot of expensive yachts moored nearby. Private yachts were nonexistent on the Yangtze River but there are many of them in Macau and Hong Kong. Through the day we also visited the Stanley Market, where we bought some T shirts, and a jewelry factory outlet in which we had little interest.

Our final stop was Victoria Peak where there is a great view of Hong Kong. Impressive city.
After saying good-bye to most of our tour group back to the hotel, Frank and Kathy, Kevin and Mary, and Anita and I went back to the Vietnamese restaurant for a bowl of soup. Our other dinner companions, Ram and Nazeera decided to stay in the hotel. Since we were leaving on different flights the next day, we all said our good-byes. We felt fortunate to have traveled with such an amiable group of people and to have forged new friendships with many of our companions on "Bus 4".