21/01/2011: THE SYMPHONY OF LIGHT.

Our last night in Hong Kong and we pushed the boat out.

Mark and Ruth organised us a place on a trip across the harbour in a Chinese junk but before we set off on it....
Drinks in a roof-top bar overlooking the harbour

As you can see it got darker whilst we were drinking and the lights on the buildings came on..

Then the junk arrived.

and now on board more drinks, a blanket to keep warm and a romantic cruise around the harbour...

ground level view

but we went on the top deck...



CHEERS!!!

 

The junk took us to Kowloon

 in time to see the Symphony of Lights, a spectacular son et lumiere display of the skyscrapers and laser beams. The lasers couldn't be captured on camera, unfortunately, only on video.

The next Chinese new year is the Year of the Rabbit.

Then back across the harbour to Hong Kong on the Star Ferry, and dinner in an Argentinian steak house in SoHo (thanks to Mark and Ruth for introducing us to SoHo a previous night).  In anticipation of the next lap of our travels we just had to have a bottle of New Zealand Pinot Noir.....