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HONG KONG: Cheung Chau
Island
February 2, 2006
| Thursday was our last day in Hong Kong. For
breakfast we dined on chocolate milk and donuts then took a ferry to Cheung Chau
Island. It’s a small dumbbell-shaped island that also has no
cars, so most of the population is crowded into the isthmus near the
harbor. We arrived early in the morning and observed the locals
opening their shops and breakfasting on dumplings. The harbor was
full of colorful Chinese junks and the promenade was lined with
flowering Bauhinia trees. We walked to a temple, then a beach, then
visited a stone carving from the bronze age, then saw another temple,
then another temple, and finally wandered into a used bookshop run by
an old Canadian who had lived on the island for 21 years. He was
quite talkative, and we wished to hang around and hear his stories,
but alas, we had to make the 12:15 ferry back to Hong Kong to begin
our trip back to Dalian. We weren’t ready to leave, as it seemed like
there was still so much to see and do in Hong Kong. |
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