Hello Excellent Ones,
It was a pretty eventful week here in amazing Hong Kong. After three very fast months I said good bye to my Elsie. We had a great time and Elsie found HK amazing. She is in Thailand now on a mission trip. Before Elsie left though we went to the International Commerce Center( ICC) together. Here are some facts about the ICC that you need to know. Located in Kowloon, overlooking Victoria harbour, it was built from 2002-2010. It is the world's fourth tallest building. 118 floors, 484 meters or 1588 feet. Most of the floors are used for office space but on the 100th floor there is an observation deck. That is where Elsie and I went. The 101 floor has several five star restaurants and the Ritz Carlton has control of floors 102-118 making it by far the highest hotel in the world. There is a swimming pool on the 118th floor. On the 107 th floor is the Presidential Suite which rents for @12 000 Canadian dollars a night. Yeah wow! Elsie and I went during the night, which was wonderful. It was clear and the lights from Hong Kong were amazing.
The next day Elsie and I went for a jungle walk. The jungles and beaches that are near Hong Kong saves it for me. If Hong Kong was just a concrete jungle, and it is really, then I would be getting out of there as quickly as possible. There is only so much noise and frantic lifestyle one can take. But like I said the jungles and beaches are awesome. The beaches are fun and the jungles are quiet, peaceful, smell great, interesting, have amazing views, and there are plenty of entertaining monkeys to make your day. They are wild, but are used to humans and so pretty harmless unless you feed them. Not recommended. So Elsie and I had a nice walk and it was a good finale to our time together.
On Saturday morning I got up with my young, (I got 20 years on them) friends, Ryan and Jill, at 4:00 am for a jungle ride up to a mountain called Tai Mon Shan (Big Cloudy Mountain). We left early to avoid the heat and also to give us plenty of time to get up there. It was a wicked workout. The path going up was all paved, so that was good, but man was it steep. So at times I had to push the bike up. We got to the top when the sun was just burning off the fog. We could see Shenzhen and parts of Hong Kong from on top. Going down was much easier and we flew down. Five hours to get to our destination and one hour to get back. The ride down was great. I was yodelling for most of it.
So that is it for another week. I have to report to school by Wednesday and the kids come the following week. Yet I am sure there will be eventful things to report next week.
Love adios and peng on
Dirk
It was a pretty eventful week here in amazing Hong Kong. After three very fast months I said good bye to my Elsie. We had a great time and Elsie found HK amazing. She is in Thailand now on a mission trip. Before Elsie left though we went to the International Commerce Center( ICC) together. Here are some facts about the ICC that you need to know. Located in Kowloon, overlooking Victoria harbour, it was built from 2002-2010. It is the world's fourth tallest building. 118 floors, 484 meters or 1588 feet. Most of the floors are used for office space but on the 100th floor there is an observation deck. That is where Elsie and I went. The 101 floor has several five star restaurants and the Ritz Carlton has control of floors 102-118 making it by far the highest hotel in the world. There is a swimming pool on the 118th floor. On the 107 th floor is the Presidential Suite which rents for @12 000 Canadian dollars a night. Yeah wow! Elsie and I went during the night, which was wonderful. It was clear and the lights from Hong Kong were amazing.
The next day Elsie and I went for a jungle walk. The jungles and beaches that are near Hong Kong saves it for me. If Hong Kong was just a concrete jungle, and it is really, then I would be getting out of there as quickly as possible. There is only so much noise and frantic lifestyle one can take. But like I said the jungles and beaches are awesome. The beaches are fun and the jungles are quiet, peaceful, smell great, interesting, have amazing views, and there are plenty of entertaining monkeys to make your day. They are wild, but are used to humans and so pretty harmless unless you feed them. Not recommended. So Elsie and I had a nice walk and it was a good finale to our time together.
On Saturday morning I got up with my young, (I got 20 years on them) friends, Ryan and Jill, at 4:00 am for a jungle ride up to a mountain called Tai Mon Shan (Big Cloudy Mountain). We left early to avoid the heat and also to give us plenty of time to get up there. It was a wicked workout. The path going up was all paved, so that was good, but man was it steep. So at times I had to push the bike up. We got to the top when the sun was just burning off the fog. We could see Shenzhen and parts of Hong Kong from on top. Going down was much easier and we flew down. Five hours to get to our destination and one hour to get back. The ride down was great. I was yodelling for most of it.
So that is it for another week. I have to report to school by Wednesday and the kids come the following week. Yet I am sure there will be eventful things to report next week.
Love adios and peng on
Dirk
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