Our third day in Hong Kong was more mellow. We took the Star Ferry again, to Hong Kong Island, then walked through the Financial District which is blocks and blocks of elevated pedestrian walkways, covered, some enclosed and air conditioned, connecting numerous buildings, malls, shops, banks, post office, and so on. Thousands of people walking all over, but not getting rained on, and not in the sun, while thousands of cars and buses moved through the streets below without stopping for we the people walking. Much safer and more pleasant than walking the windy streets of the NYC financial district.
We walked until we found the beginning of what are called the mid-level escalators which are essentially another people-mover, climbing the hills, covered, running up what is almost an alley way on the steep hillside, probably about a half-mile. There are breaks where we would cross the street, the get on the next segment. There is no escalator going down, so we walked down, crossed onto Hollywood Road and strolled, stopping for a cold drink, and viewing the numerous beautiful and antique shops, as well as an old Temple, walking several side streets into the smaller areas with more tourist-type shops for gifts (like statutes of numerous communist dictators), then walking down on the main streets where the double-decker buses including ones wrapped with advertisements for products including campbell's soup were running, and eventually connecting back into the pedestrian walkways to walk to the Star Ferry again. A very pleasant day, with a walk of several miles but not a huge push, even with the hot-humid weather.
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