Fourth of July certainly did not feel like a typical Fourth of July! We had a planned excursion with our school to visit the Avenue of the Stars, Repulse Bay, Stanley Market, and Victoria Peak. All of the Americans were hoping to find a BBQ or American 4th of July Celebration - instead we ended up finding all-American Budweisers on Lan Kwai Fung, and a plethora of roughty Americans enjoying a night out!
Avenue of the Stars is similar to the street in Hollywood that has the star's handprints. This is also the location of the infamous statue of Bruce Lee. Jackie Chan also has a handprint on the Avenue of the Stars.
(Jack with Bruce Lee's "star-print")
(Bruce Lee)
Repulse Bay is on the south shore of Hong Kong Island and is a great place to go swimming. There is a small town there as well, but we were taken to a place with Chinese character statues. There were many different stories about these statues and some of them had "games" to play for good luck. For example, you could walk across the bridge to add 3 days to your life.
The next stop on our tour was Stanley Market. This is a popular street market on the south side of Hong Kong Island, near a beach. Next to the market was the Murray house, which used to sit in the middle of Hong Kong, but was moved brick by brick out to this beachfront location. I found a really neat silk dress at the market (you can see the dress in future pictures).
Victoria Peak is the best place to get an view of the city of Hong Kong, and although it wasn't the best day weather-wise, the view was remarkable.
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