Hu Jintao's visit also triggered a huge civil rights rally of around 80,000 people marching from Victoria Park to the government offices at Admiralty. We didn't see this ourselves.
One thing I did notice was a number of chinese wearing union jack t-shirts. Although I don't know if it was more than usual.
Clever Rika had booked us a dinner cruise on Victoria Harbor to watch the fireworks. We departed from North Point pier at 7:20. Before the fireworks started at 8:00 we enjoyed a buffet dinner and relaxing music from the live band.
Incredibly one of their first songs was the theme to 'Titanic', which seemed to be in lieu of a safety announcement. (I never did find out where they were hiding the lifejackets and life-rafts.)
After dinner we went down to the open deck to watch the fireworks. The display lasted 23 minutes and was quite impressive. Most of the fireworks were red and white, the colours of the Hong Kong SAR, with just a few green and yellow. ('one country, two colours')
Video: Hannah took most of this one sitting on my shoulders
After the fireworks the old folk chatted at the tables while the younger generation took to the dance floor.
Video: the younger generation on the dance-floor.
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