Views of Hong Kong Island’s stunning cityscape from Kowloon, day, dusk and night.
A real highlight of the trip so far, and doubly so coming after the mega-trek through China, was meeting up with Michelle and Colin for a trip to the Peak in Hong Kong. It was wonderful to see some familiar friendly faces after 6 weeks on the road, and the view from the top, and the ferry-ride across from Kowloon, made for a lovely overview of the city and wider territory.
Views of the Bund and across to Pudong by day. Pudong clearly isn’t skyscrapery enough yet, so they’re working on some stupidly large ego tower to keep up in the Big Building stakes.
Standing at the foot of the Tower, watching the sun set over Seoul. As dusk turns to twilight to darkness, the purple mountains and silver river and red-gold trees fade away. Orange bulbs of street lights dot the city, red lines of tail lights snake outwards, neon signs pulsate everywhere. The city has emerged.
Bicycling along the Han River.
Pontocho, one of the main streets in what used to be Kyoto’s red light district. Not very racey these days, but it’s a very pretty narrow alleyway crammed with restaurants, teahouses and bars.
Takayama is a very pretty city, even in the rain.
Shibuya Crossing. Mental.
Tokyo showing its sci-fi styling. I wish there were some jets of flame and flying cars to really pull things together.