Hong Kong, travel notes ...

More recently, Hong Kong was a British colony. Only in 1997 was China's sovereignty over the territory. I remember as a kid watching TV in the evening on the holiday, on the occasion of deliverance from the yoke of the British. According to the agreement, Hong Kong for 50 years, received the status of wide autonomy - it has its own laws, their money, their police here do not need a visa. Meanwhile, China remains the foreign policy and defense. While China is rubbing his arms and waiting for a complete infusion of Hong Kong in their crowded ranks of the city is considered to be almost a full-fledged state. The size and population of a little more than Hong Kong and Singapore in many ways similar to that country. There is perhaps a little lacking cleanliness and order, but many just like it.

Lives Hong Kong is very good. Hong Kong Stock Exchange - the seventh largest exchange in the world, where low taxes and many companies prefer to work and to register here. In general, all is well. The first impression - Hong Kong is a large shopping center in the open air. City store. Although many of these come and go.
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01. Earth is small, so you have to imagine namyvat island.



02. Here is a view from the window of my room on the 117 floor. Height - 450 meters! Like most Asian cities - Hong Kong completely featureless and uninteresting in terms of architecture. Same box skyscrapers no one is surprised, but rather the contrary, depressing and disheartening.



03. Throughout construction - the city should grow.



04. Shopping centers blends in hotels, streets, restaurants, combine with other shopping centers and offices. Sometimes it is not clear where one ends and another begins shop. Somewhere between trading numbers hid the entrances to the subway and bus stops. Today, the service sector provides more than 90% of the gross domestic product of Hong Kong.



05. The city is located on more than 260 islands, which are connected by bridges and tunnels. Sami residential areas of the city are cut motorways.



06. Walk around the city very difficult - in many places there is no transition, constantly having to climb the flyover. Many transitions are not regulated, and the drivers are not in a hurry to pedestrians.



07. Camera



08. On every street corner, "waffles". It's great.



09. Street Fashion.



10. The abundance of advertising in the early plunges into a light shock.



11. Everywhere signs, which are not for the fact that the houses, the sky is not visible.



12. Although, if you look closely, it becomes clear that the signs close dirty and shabby building.



13. Take a ride on the subway. It was not pleasant to me - very uncomfortable transitions, poorly developed network of lines. The same inconvenient underground as in Singapore. About the subway will be a separate post.



14. On the streets of so many people. Sidewalks everywhere narrow and people often get up in the real cork.



15. Over the weekend, some shopping streets are pedestrian.



16. All day you walk into the crowd.



17. In Hong Kong, many people go for cheap electronics, because of the very loyal to the tax legislation, is the technique of buying profitable. Of course, the greatest demand is for Apple products. Officially iPhones 5 and mini iPads for sale anymore, only pre-order, but at baryg you can always buy the coveted handset.



18. Bus Schedule on rotating boxes.



19. They are of different shapes and configurations, but they are convenient. You stand and twist this box information.



20. Hong Kong's famous trams! It is the only tram system in the world, is used exclusively dabldekery!



21. The tram line was opened in Hong Kong in 1904.



22. Who tram greater tourist attraction than a separate form of public transport.



23. In the metro are not allowed in Crocs! (just kidding, just need to be careful)



24. Very nicely done tactile boards for the visually impaired and lattice rainwaters. See what beauty is all neatly.



25. Social advertising against debris. Apparently, the main problem is that the old spit, scat dogs, youth litter, and some asshole glues their wordstrips. A fine of 150 euros. Speaking of penalties, where nearly all the violations of the fine of 150 euros.



26. Tanks for separate waste collection. Sortiruesh not correct? Penalty - 150 euros.



27. To not throwing cigarette butts in the flower beds, on the parapet made ashtrays.



28. Streets ...



29. Taxi. As in China, Hong Kong taxi drivers do not understand English. Explain where you go is almost impossible. At the airport before boarding the address you call a special person, he wrote a note for the taxi driver, and only after that you carry. Explain that something can not be a taxi driver. It should mean a trip to the city - 5 euros. From the airport to the city - 25 euro.



30. Everywhere double-decker buses - a reminder of England.



31. The already busy traffic of pedestrians on narrow sidewalks aggravate people with posters.



32. Taxi.



33. That is so.

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