DAY 21

The days have turned very humid and its rather stuffy outside. After hours of deliberation on a wonderful Saturday afternoon, a mysterious force urges me to get out of the cool room that I have. I head out searching for the Zoological garden.

I cross the road over the foot bridge and a small board beckons me. The words on that board: "Welcome to the Hong Kong Botanical and Zoological Garden". I stand stunned for a while, thinking that I have been living next to the zoo and had been searching for it everywhere other than this location.

Today I was out to go to the markets on foot, but the zoo has made me take a short diversion.
Well, just as usual the short detour, turns out to be the new destination.
First, at the Botanical centre, a charming bouquet of flowers await me. But, for probably the first time, the flowers were pushed to the back of the mind, while certain thoughts that were more closer to the heart ran in the fore.

But most certainly the flowers were beautiful and they infused a certain energy, much required to move around the park on a day like this.

After a whole lot of flowers, I headed to the aviaries. That wasn't really a crowd puller because the aviaries were somewhat stinky. But this was perhaps the first time I was seeing so many birds in this city. Such multi-meshed enclosures made for poor photography as the camera focused on the meshes more often than the birds. Bird watching ;) was not too much of a fun in the zoo!! :P

Walked around numerous other enclosures and saw lion tailed macaques, a marvelous gorilla (somehow the similarity was striking!! ;) ), a cool porcupine, an aardvark sort of animal, baboons, lemurs and plenty more of small animals. A certain set of monkeys reacted rather funny when I was clicking them. Which ever angle I tried to capture them, they'd rotate their faces out of view. Were they camera shy or human hurt?? Just couldn't help thinking and wondered for quite a while after that.

The Reptile Enclosure was fun yet almost a disaster. With the so called enclosure, all they had were two crocs and one Python. Well the python looked majestic, though its difficult to spot in the picture due to the funny enclosure design.

Up ahead, the zoo changed into a wonderful park with a terrific and unique view of the buildings around and the lush green surroundings here, were unmatched for any place in HK. The concrete jungle probably has this as its lone oasis and a smashing one at that. Had just been out for about a couple of hours and my shirt was so wet with sweat that I could wring out at least a litre!! ;) Or maybe that was a little over exaggerated, but I guess you get the idea.

Back at the room, I cool down for a while and give up plans for further roaming around. The last bit of money in my pocket is spent on groceries in a little while and one could safely say that I am broke with just about HKD 15 in total change.

The rest of the day is spent watching TV, with no one to get me off the hook!! :( But yeah, this is fun!! ;)

Am thinking hard about tomorrow. Will I be out or am I gonna sit out a Sunday in my room at Hong Kong? ;)

Now its fun all the time. Not just out on the streets but in the room all alone too!! :P