> >Hong Kong -
>> ...  - how many photos can YOU take in 20 minutes
>>;-). Boats, bridges, people, food (we've had this list),
>>countrside tour - villages ... .

> Trip up to the Peaks on the railway, fountain playing at 
> the top ... ah the
> memories of 10 years ago ...
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Took a trip on the tram. No fountain there now though - or 
at least where I went.

"And the smog comes up like thunder out of China 'cross the 
bay".
A real shame about the smog.
I suspect that  slowing down a lot and taking 50 years to 
get to where they are trying to get to in 10 or so would pay 
real dividends.

A trip through eastern China has really opened my eyes to 
what the 'clean air' and 'resource management' acts achieve, 
or prevent. The countryside is picturesque in the extreme, 
but it's broken, possibly beyond repair. On the 500 km train 
ride Qingdao-Beijing the air slowly cleared somewhat over 
about 300km then thickened up again quite rapidly long 
before Beijing. In Beijing if you look straight up the sky 
is blue. If you look out an angle it's smog all the way and 
no horizon. From the highest viewpoints in central Beijing, 
White pagoda and similar, the view is superb BUT you cannot 
see the horizon. Makes me really appreciate what we have in 
NZ where that occurs only when there's fog or mist.

Beijing is more different from Hong Kong than Hong Kong is 
from London, or Auckland. But HK gets China's smog in 
quantity.

I liked China but I'm sad about what they have done and are 
continuing to do to it.




        Russell 

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