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HONG KONG TO SEOUL

Started with breakfast at the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong.  The Ritz-Carlton cruise line arranged for a vehicle to take us to Hong Kong International Airport on the island of Chek Lap Kok.  Remember their old Kai Tak Airport?  I do. Memorable, because planes went right over building rooftops, coming as close as 100 feet. Air traffic would fly low over Kowloon City, making 47-degree right turn at under 1000 feet to line up with the runway. Passengers could see people showering. Watch this video of the world's scariest airport? Finally closed in 1998. In stark contrast is the new ( opened in 1998 ) Hong Kong International Airport. Confusing, but Kai Tak was also called Hong Kong International Airport. More accurately, this current one should be called Chek Lap Kok International Airport, but this is not used much, and the airport code is HKG, the same one used by Kai Tak. The story of the new Hong Kong International Airport is remarkable . Skytrax rates it at  #6 airport in ...
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OUR FINAL DAY IN HONG KONG....A Quick Update on OTEC and, Tomorrow, on to Seoul, Korea

Yesterday, I featured the West Kowloon Cultural District as the future of Hong Kong.   Here is a video with details. Breakfast was at the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, of a bowl of noodles, with orange juice and cappuccino. Had a nap.  Went to dinner in our Club Lounge.  From twilight to night.  Note that there is air pollution in Hong Kong .  Quite serious, as caused by industry and vehicles.  There are also 7.6 million people here on space much smaller than the island of Oahu, Hawaii.  Never seemed to go away during the day. That spherical gold structure is the Golden Egg, or Charles K. Kao Auditorium, locatd in the Hong Kong Science Park. First course, two soups, plus seared tuna soba.  Springbank single malt scotch.  Costs around $250/bottle in the USA. Main dish was Vietnamese Hang Nha Noodles, and salad, with a Cabernet Sauvignon. Desserts. That was about it for last night, for we will be picked up at 10AM to be taken to the airport tomo...
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HONG KONG: Day 2--The Future of Hong Kong is Developing Well

Day 2 in Hong Kong started with an excellent buffet breakfast. For lunch in the Club Lounge, the feature was, of all the things. Spaghetti Bolognese. Not the standard SB, but good enough.   Decided then to look around the environs of the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong hotel, which is an anchor tenant with the newish Kowloon Station in West Kowloon, linked to a sprawling and grandiose shopping mall.  Hard to find total costs, but perhaps $10 billion has been spent, and another $10 billion will probably be needed to complete the development.  The International Commerce Center, which was built in 2010 with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at the top, paved the way for this all.  There is the old Hong Kong around the Peninsula and Sheraton hotels, but the West Kowloon Cultural District, with the tallest building and Kowloon Station, which opened in 2018, is already the Hong Kong of the future. A stroll around the outside. As we were about to leave, we noticed a free tram that took yo...
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