lots of hiking on various hong kong islands. Such as this 'family trail' to "cave Kamikaze."
Friday, May 29, 2009
5 years ago today, may 29
May 29, 2004 saw:
If you click on the picture and view the full size image, you can read the english section of the placard. It basically explains that the japanese were planning to hide kamikaze boats in the caves, to be used against allied ships if they should approach, but the war ended before that actually took place.
mountain on our walk. I didn't take any more pics on this walk til we got back to the beach, so I didn't get any photos of the beautiful little beach we found, which had one or two locals but nary a tourist (other than ourselves) and we had a grand ole time swimming in the warm, beautiful, secluded water.
Bikes on the dock. Folks will ride their bikes to the ferry and leave them here the way some commuters in the states leave their cars at the train station.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
5 years ago today, may 28
I don't have any pics whatsoever from the 27th, which I can assume is because that's the day the official trip ended, and I headed to Hong Kong with a few other adventurous souls. [Also in there was Kir's early departure from the group to spend some time with her grandparents in the yellow mountains (jeal-ous!), where she accidently left her passport behind in our room. Ack! I kind of expected the Tisch chaperones do handle it, but since in terms of liability she had departed the group, they instead just excused me from the group to handle it. Thankfully she had left me a goodbye note with her grandparents' names et al, and I was able to use my pitiful mandarin to track them down (a process I don't remember the details of but involved talking to a taxi driver and being REALLY nervous that I'd screw this all up) and in the end, it was safely returned to her.]
Anyway:
May 28th, 2004 saw:
(From Phil, who also came to hong kong!)
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