Chinese New Year

Trip Start Jan 24, 2009
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Trip End Jan 30, 2009


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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Hong Kong is just as bizarre as I thought it would be. Bigger crowds than I have been in ever. Just crossing the street was pretty funny. Went to the big New Year's Flower Market in Victoria Park, which was right next to our hotel. Massive amounts of good-luck-flowers for the new year, plus loads of booths in the market, selling lots of strange junk, with guys standing on someone's shoulders screaming at the crowd like it was the last episode of American Idol. Did the usual tourist crap, i.e., took the double decker buses, went to the world's largest outdoor sitting Buddha, ate great dim sum, took the Star Ferry, and went to the parade, where I saw a large group ( probably sixty people ) inline skating for world peace to the theme song from Bonanza. Really.
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