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Did you know that the angels here in Hong Kong have purple wings, at least the angels up at Victoria Peak? My photo is the proof, isn´t it :-)
After two days out in the New Territories, it was time to visit main Hong Kong. Three metra trains, aA LOT of people, a cable car ride.....and we were there.
Victoria Peak, with a magnificient view. We took an elevator up to the Peak Tower, had lunch at the bottom, and then decided the walk the Peak Trail (?)
As always I have a book in my backpack, or rather, Terje has one of my books in his backpack. This time it was Hong Kong by Jan Morris, from 1988. And of course I have to sit down and read of Jan´s visit to The Peak.
.....the walk around Victoria Peak, crowning massif of Hong Kong island. The British Empire was expert at pleasaunes, and the classic example is the circular path around the Peak, through its bowers of jasmine and wild indigo, daphne, rhododendrons and shiny wax trees......butterflies waver about your path, kites and long-tailed magpies swoop, among the trees the racket of the cicadas seem to fall as a torrent all about you......
While part of me wanted to watch and photograph the skyscrapers, another, strong part, wanted to smell the flowers, watch the butterflies.
Photographing a butterfly is not easy. Believe me, I felt they were teasing me, landing in front of us to show their beauty, but as soon as I raised my camera they folded their wings, or just flew away.
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Well, my patience got them :-)
And I got a few other species as well.
