Hong Kong – a dynamic and highly crossroads of Asia and is also the gateway to mainland China. For over a century and a half here connected cultures of East and West, which then merged, then collide, but it always generate the striking contrasts that make impressions of a trip to Hong Kong are simply unforgettable.
Hong Kong has always lived by its own laws, not noticing arise in this amazing paradoxes. Hong Kong – a business center, which, being a long time British colony, revealed to the world the supernatural achievements in finance and trade, yet its roots go back centuries of Chinese tradition.
It is a city where a stock broker in anticipation of the opening of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange voskurivaet incense before a small altar in his office in one of the ultra-modern high rise buildings in downtown. This is a town where an elderly Chinese man skips his singing birdie in a cage made of teak wood, and comes on the way to the tea chat with friends. But at the same time, a couple of blocks away from this tea, the son of an old lover of songbirds in Brussels sends a fax from his posh “Mercedes”.
The combination of celestial and terrestrial.
Early in the morning you can see how in the shadow of gleaming glass and metal office buildings men and women perform graceful traditional Chinese exercises of gymnastics “Tai-chi-chuan.” Themselves as the inhabitants of these prestigious offices prefer to engage in a morning workout on the tennis court. And at the end of the day, night dusk near the temple predictor of fate wonders for those who want to learn the answers to eternal questions of life. At the same time, one of the neighboring streets in the bank branch employees of the companies more closely examine the Earth’s information: they are interested in selling gold rate registered at the close of trading on the London Stock Exchange.
Hong Kong – a city of contrasts and endless variety.
It’s the crowds and bustle of downtown Monkok during peak hours, but it’s also peace and tranquility in one of the neighboring islands, where there is no single auto. You can select the truffles and brandy in a restaurant on the twentieth floor in the center of the city, and you can enjoy fresh seafood in a fish restaurant on the pier.
