Sha Tin

We are actually about to receive our daughter in Nanchang right now, but will Blog this information later.

After staying on Hong Kong Island, we moved to Sha Tin to join the rest of our adoption travel group. Sha Tin is one of the "New Cities" designed to relieve congestion elsewhere in Hong Kong. It has a MONSTROUS shopping area, plus a very interesting Hong Kong Heritage Museum, which we visited to learn more about the area, and about Cantonese Opera. We worked our way through the shopping area via a fish market featuring VERY fresh fish (still flopping around on the tables) and an interesting assortment of other seafoods.

We visited a Buddhist memorial temple, with tiers of altars ascending up a nearby hill. People were leaving flowers, incense, and plates of food in front of Buddha statues and their relatives' memorial sites. The 10,000 Buddhas Monastery was a little farther up the hill - we did not count all the Buddhas. But we did see two monks, as well as at least three monkeys.

We topped off the day with an eye-popping, jaw-dropping evening experiencing the spectacle of downtown Kowloon, including the Temple Street Night Market.