title	Wan Chai and Central, Hong Kong, China - 2nd October 2006
intro	On the way to Nanjing in China, Nosher stops off in Hong Kong for a day to sort out a visa. In the morning, there's a chance to hang out at Lan Kwai Fong market near Central, and later on there's time for further wanderings around Central's Mid Levels, as well as a return visit to Victoria Peak via the Peak Tram fernicular railway. Since the last visit, the building at the top of the railway has been rebuilt to house what seems like 50 floors of tat, where it takes about as long going up the escalators as it does getting there in the first place. The view from the top is somewhat hazy, but it's still always worth seeing. The flight to Nanjing was at around 6pm, so there's no time to do anything else.
imgp7375	Neon lights near the convention centre at Wan Chai
imgp7376	Hong Kong harbour and the Bank of China building
imgp7384	The convention centre
imgp7389	Street stalls sell 100%-original DVDs and CDs
imgp7390	DVDs and CDs
imgp7397	A ferry leaves for Kowloon
imgp7405c	A boy fishes in the harbour, backlit by neon
imgp7407	More neon lights on the harbour
imgp7415	Desolate retail premises
imgp7417	Jackie Chan stares out from a security grating
imgp7420	An inconveniently-closed convenience store
imgp7422	More barricaded shops
imgp7426	The Bank of China building
imgp7431	Sign-tastic street
imgp7433	Somewhere in the Mid Levels of Central
imgp7434	A flower shop
imgp7436	A ton of air conditioning units
imgp7437	The streets are quiet early in the morning
imgp7438	More apartments
imgp7439	At the top of a steep hill
imgp7440	Tunes, Booze, People: says it all really
imgp7441	A florist opens up
imgp7443	The steeps streets of the Mid Levels
imgp7444	A family walks about
imgp7446	Lan Kwai Fong market from a Mid-Level escalator
imgp7521	Bamboo scaffolding clads a building
imgp7523	A poster explosion
imgp7525	An old dude walks past posters
imgp7526	Pac Man on a "Game and Fun" sign
imgp7528	A brightly decorated restaurant
imgp7529	A street stall with a pair of plastic breasts
imgp7530	An old dude works a vintage Singer sewing machine
imgp7531	The steps of Central
imgp7532	People wait to cross over the busy street
imgp7533	There's a small tree in a trolley
imgp7539	A wedding takes places on Garden Road
imgp7540	Wedding on the steps of the St. John's Building
imgp7545	Hong Kong garden
imgp7546	The view from Victoria Peak
imgp7551	Tourists on the peak
imgp7556	A derelict house, down below
imgp7558	On the way down
imgp7559	A million escalators in the rebuilt Peak Station
imgp7560	The fernicular Peak Tram hauls up the tracks
imgp7563	A massive queue for jackets at British Dry Cleaners
imgp7568	Wedding photos are still occuring on Garden Road