The Sungei Beloh park is huge--it takes hours to walk through.

On the pathway at the Wetlands Park, Singapore.


You never know who or what you'll meet in this park.

Sungei Beloh, Singapore.

The park is a sanctuary for many migrating birds.

Trees have roots mainly above ground because the water level is so high.

The wetland reserve in Singapore is much more peaceful and natural than the reserve in Hong Kong.

Sungei Buloh, Wetland Reserve, Singapore.

I didn't see any monkeys in the park.

Luckily, I also didn't see any alligators because I'm not sure how watching them would protect me.

The last photo from my trip to Hong Kong and Macau, a short of the HK central skyline.

Two photos from Kowloon Park. It's all free even to see the animals.

Clicking below will lead to a movie. Every night at 8pm, there is a light show that can be seen from the Kowloon side of Hong Kong. On May 1st, there were special pyrotechnics to celebrate Labor Day. This movie shows the last few seconds of the show.
(LINK NOT WORKING YET--it will be fixed soon)

You can put your money here for good luck, and come back later to see if it grew into a money tree.

The egg tart is a speciality of Macau. It was delicious.

Notice the long incense sticks, that can burn for weeks, so people do not need to visit the temple often to add new incense. Below is part of A-ma temple which was built before the Portuguese arrived in 1555.

For a fee, it is possible to walk around the edge of the Macau Tower, or try a 233 m bungee jump. Is anyone interested in trying the bungee jump with me?

The mullet hairstyle above is optional.

Two views from the 338 m Macau Tower. The plexiglass was all that separated my from the ground.

A statue of Guan Yin, the Chinese goddess of compassion that was constructed by the Portuguese before they turned over the colony to China.

A view of the Casinos in Macau. It looks a bit like a mini-Las Vegas, since there are many buildings that try to transport a bit of another country's architecture, but it is not as over the top. Maybe that's because people are mostly interested in gambling and nothing else. There really wasn't much else to do inside the casinos. A lot construction is underway though because it was only a few years ago that international companies were allowed to inject competition into the gambling scene. It won't be long before casinos must work harder to outdo each other, and I hope that means more to do besides gambling.


The hotel part is under construction, but they already opened up the casino, and have probably made enough profit to pay for the whole building already!

According to the tour guide, in the apartments with immigrants from mainland China (PRC), residents tend to add cages to windows so that they have an extra room. At night, children can sleep outside on the cage balconies.

This barbed wire is to prevent mainland Chinese from crossing over into Macau and was built when it was still a Portuguese colony. Now, many of the rich Macanese live in Zhuhoi, as it has a lot more space left for building than Macau.