Hong Kong so far

Here are some pictures of HK so far.

This is our serviced apartment while here. We're on the 21st floor with pretty nice views. You can see my "office" in the corner there. On the right is the view looking west (straight out the window in front of my office)

Window view looking north. If you look closely, there is scaffolding to left of the building with the angled roof and red sign to the center left of the picture. Behind that scaffolding is the international commerce center, which is one of the highest buildings in the world - you'd never know it from this view.

This is a view looking south toward the mountains from our hotel roof deck. I have spent some time out there, but it is less a roof deck than it is a steam room out there. At night it's nice though. 

Us on a bus to Aberdeen. Aberdeen is a "small fishing village" on the other side of the island that is wrought with highrises and swarming with people. Not as quaint as we'd hoped, but we got this nice picture of ourselves.

 And the quintessential pic from the "Kowloon Side" of Victoria Harbour. I never tire of it.

One of the first days we were here we went to visit the "worlds largest bronze buddah sitting down on the top of a mountain" (it seriously has about 12 qualifiers to being the largest buddah). Well, the fog had other plans, so instead we just got a fun, foggy 4 mile gondola ride into the mist. The buddah was less than impressive in the fog. No picture necessary. (maybe later after we visit again)

 Required photo of HKG from the gondola.

One of my favorite buildings here because of it's ye-oldeness 1980s looking architecture and the silly lights. I tend to love misty "batman" nights where the light reflects off the clouds. I'm a romantic about buildings.

Pretty nighttime sky from Kowloon.

Jordan's building/office. Standard Chartered has a small building but it packs a big punch in the ridiculous nightly light show. The building to its left is the HSBC building. Both banks print the money for HK.

Bank of China (BOC) from a silly business-y, expensive, xpat rooftop bar next to the buildings. This is from the 30th floor or something like that.

BOC in the day along with the ding dings. The ding dings are my preferred method of slow clunky fire hazardous transport here. (they are made of wood and ready to burst into flames from an electrical fire at any time - I live on the wild side)