June 15 - in Hong Kong continues.

Some the boats in the bay, above you see the Ferry boat it goes back and forth across the bay from the Island of Hong Kong to Kowloon main land.  It was because of Hong Kong's magnificent natural harbour that ships first anchored here in the 19th century and created a base for trade with China.  Sailors were on hand to
pull the Ferry boats ashore to unload passengers.



As rode the Big bus around that day these are some of the pictures
I took of the busy street and people shopping.




Our destination this afternoon was this tourist attraction The Ritz Carlton Hotel, it's the tallest building around with 100 storeys high.  At the top is an observation area.   We found we had to pay $20. to ride the elevator up, so the next pictures you see are about  what we saw from the top.




As we entered the top, we walked down this hall, and this is what we saw under the glass floor, images of the city buildings.




I and Rita stepped into this colored diagram of the city and had our picture taken, here we are on top of the world.




The first picture shows the Peak Tower, I discovered it in one of my other pictures, so crop it, so you could see it from a distance, it is on the Hong Kong side.  The next picture is looking over to the hotel we are staying, it's above that conference center turtle looking building.  The next picture show how low the other building look from the top of the Ritz.  The last one is looking
south, behind the mountains and beyond.  Today was Rita's birthday, so after a all day sight seeing trip around Hong Kong, she wanted to go to dinner at an "Out Back" restaurant, they found one.  The last really good Western meal we had for two weeks.