This day it is the Chinese Fireworks day. The British were a mere HKD $3 M worth of explosives (27 tons!). This day the budget was HKD $100! We do not know how many tons of explosives they were using, however.
Here is the view from our hotel, the Imperial Hotel Kowloon. Since we had a room with harbor view we decided to watch the fireworks from here. Then we could also check out what was really going on by Television. In Cantonese only, however. The English channels did not comment this event.
Lennart trying to recover his email. But a disk crash at vix made that difficult.
Tsim Sha Tsui is getting crowded. Most people are supposed to watch the fireworks from the Kowloon side, not the Hong Kong side as we did the day before.
Raining a lot. But, fortunately, it wasn't raining during the fireworks. Rain was otherwise the main thing during this handover ceremony. When we left Hong Kong there were many landslides, schools were closed e t c. The people who signed the lease for Hong Kong in 1898 certainly didn't pay attention to the Hong Kong monsoon season!
Raining a lot, while people are on their way to the oceanfront. (It was closed, as we could see from our hotel room).
The crowd as seen from the Imperial hotel.
SAR = Special Administrative Region. Watching these photos will not even closely resemble the real thing. Any screen saver would do better! So, if you have a good fireworks screen saver, keep on to the Mad Dogs pub pictures instead!
The photos are taken from the 17:th floor of the Imperial hotel in Kowloon. We are close to the Peninsula hotel, the Chung King mansion and the Hyatt Kowloon. Down below us you'll find the Tsim Sha Tsui subway station. Closest pub is the Mad Dogs pub.
First the show started with laser shows. Difficult to make good photos of.
One of the first bombs.
A bunch of them. OK, my comments are crappy, so are the photos. Keep on with Mad Dogs if you wish!
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OK, now people are getting away from the Kowloon side. The crowd was large, this day it was more than the 400 000 that had been here the day before. TST subway had to be closed for a while since it was overfilled and the trains couldn't keep up with demand.
Now it is raining again...
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