some views from the top of our CVA (communications and visual arts) building. As you can see, the area where my school is located, Kowloon Tong, is quite high-class and exclusive.. because they have the luxury of having small houses. two or three stories with HUGE walls around them, barbed wire and guards. in the distance you can see the high-rises where most HongKongers live. in the second photo, the mountains you see the left are actually the mountains of Hong Kong Island, that's how small this city is. we are here on the mainland, kowloon, and can see all the way down to the harbour and across the water to Victoria Peak. the very tall building in that photo is the ICC, the tallest building in Asia, where i went in my first week in HK (i posted about it on this blog).
loving hong kong whole heartedly ...
this is the view in the other direction, up towards north. beyond those hills there is more of Hong Kong, and then the 'new territories' start. you can see again here in Kowloon Tong there aren't many high rises, instead we have many many schools, homes for the elderly, and fancy residences.
another funny thing about HK is that it's very mountainous, and every available piece of flat land has been built upon, so the city extends fully-built right up to the mountains and then there is lush, untouched greenery for miles on the hills. this is amazing, the green lungs of HK take away some of the air pollution.
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