my first contact with an asian country...Hong Kong in specific
...by day and by night...
...by day and by nignt...
...once again, by day and by night ...
The great buddha. A bronze statue, 34m high, situated on the highest part of the Lantau island.
Not only that it was impossible to view the panorama from such a peak, but the dense fog was jealously surrounding the buddha, so that I often had to immagine where those 250 tones of bronze were.
...but the atmosphere is surely mystikal
Just passing the tea house, where only anxious dolls and ...
...tired dogs will salute you in December
...I arrive to the wisdom path
From the 100th story of the total 118 and 484m high Internacional Commerce Centre, world's seventh tallest building by hight, world's third tallest by number of floors...
In the New Territories I visited the "Temple of 10000 Buddhas", without understanding quite well why this name was chosen...
After HK I reach, not without my usual adventures Beijing, a "small, pacefull, calm little town..."
... and the highlight of my trip: The Great Wall
Back to Beijing. It's important to have clear ideas when you enter a shop like this...
The Opera House
Tiananmen Square, the fourth largest city square...
...simply huge
Entrance of the Forbidden City in a cold, cold December morning...
...also guardians appreciate the weak sun rays