More Pictures From Hong Kong

If you haven't already read our original Hong Kong post, you should definitely do that first.  I just took so many pictures (292 that I kept, although that was limited by the fact that it was raining for most of the weekend) that I wanted to share some of the ones that I didn't think fit with the excellent narrative of our trip that Maura wrote.
Here's part 1:

We were on the 17th floor of our hotel, and this was the view down.  Not a nice view, actually, but kind of cool for a non-city-dweller like me.

This is what all of the streets looked like at night, pretty much.  There were signs on top of signs on top of signs as far as the eye could see, and we could read about 1% of them (so, hundreds).

I put the picture of Bruce Lee's awesome statue in the first post, but this is his star in the Avenue of the Stars.  There were a lot of other stars like this for actors we didn't recognize (and a very small number of ones that we did).

This is a view of Stanley Harbor.  The pier you can see behind the tree is the same pier as the one from the original Hong Kong post from a different angle.  The big building in the second is a historic building called the Murray House.

This is the outside of the Tin Hau Temple in Stanley.  It doesn't look as nice as most of the temples we've seen, but it was built in 1767 to worship Tin Hau, the goddess of the sea.

There's lots of statues like this at the temples.  I'm a fan.

Inside Tin Hau Temple in Stanley.  The fruit has been left as offerings, and the sticks in the mini-cauldrons are incense sticks left in prayer.

This is Maura eating lunch on that pier from the earlier picture.

The whole Stanley area was really nice.  Taichung isn't on the ocean, so we haven't spent much time around water this trip.

This tiny temple is built right above the water near Stanley.

There was a sign that indicated that these trees actually help keep the cliffs and walls from collapsing. 

I like this picture.

We stumbled onto a Buddhist monastery that wasn't listed on our map towards the end of our Stanley nature walk.  This statue of a goddess standing on a sea serpent was there, and you can see a few people praying to her in the picture.

This much smaller sculpture was there as well.  Some people had left coins in the serpent's mouth.

This was one of the better picture's taken out of the bus window on our trip back to Hong Kong.

Also out the bus window, this is a picture of a Ocean Park, a big amusement park/oceanarium.  The cable cars are one way of getting to the park, and I can only imagine how great the view is during the ride.

Another shot of the cable cars on their way to Ocean Park.  This picture is kind of ruined by the reflection from the bus window.

We saw a few of these cemetaries.  It's hard to tell, but the graves are very tightly packed in, and they ascend in many layers all the way up a cliff face in the distance.  Literally, they line the shelves of a cliff with as many graves as will fit, and there are lots of shelves.  This cemetary was Catholic, but we only saw it from the bus as we drove past.

More to come, when I get the chance.