We were excited for Jan and Don to visit again. Last year they visited in September when it was still really hot, so they decided to wait until November this year. The weather was much cooler this trip. They spent their days exploring while the kids were at school. They even spent several days visiting places on their own. We were very impressed.
One of the most interesting places I went with them was to the Goldfish market, flower market, and bird market. The Goldfish market is a street lined with stores selling all kind of fish. Most have floor to ceiling racks filled with small bags that contain colorful fish. The flower market is a different street with many floral shops selling individual flowers, beautiful bouquets, gifts, and whole trees. It is interesting to see the different variety of flowers. Many of the flowers were shipped from Holland.
The most interesting of the three was the bird market. It was very loud. With such small apartments in Hong Kong, a bird is a practical pet. You will sometimes see people carrying bird cages around parks, taking their birds for a "walk". The bird market had beautiful cages hanging in the trees with singing birds.
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| Not a great picture, but many of the bird cages had small porcelain bowls to put water and bird seed in |
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| Lots of bird to choose from |
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| You can even buy food for your birds. I hope if the person next to me on the train has a bag of crickets in their bag, it doesn't have a hole in it. |
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