Hong Kong Heliflight

Taking a helicopter tour is quite interesting in HK as long as the weather is nice and the visibility acceptable. You can see many different sceneries in HK, almost microcosms-like areas that do not really fit into the rest of the scenery. You also get to look behind the walls of skyscrapers that hide the many small buildings or even free areas in HK. On the picture to the left you can see "Park View" building, a huge condominium block inside a public park area. I do not know how they got the permission to build there, but now nobody else can do so anymore. The advantage of this place is that you have a view from quite high up to both north and south sides of the island. The negative thing is that places so high up are often in the low clouds and suffer from the high humidity.

rich and poor are often very close to another in HK. Here one the first image you can see the "Clearwater bay" area with small houses and large cheap condos right next to it. On the second picture you have a private beach with a border around it so boats wont kill anybody. The third picture shows a lighthouse, lonely on a rock.
On the one hand you have a huge golf course built, there is not a lot of space for that, so they are expensive. Next to it you find some shell breeding, which makes you think since the water is not really clean. The third image you find a cemetery, covering vast areas, and somehow hidden away on a small island, since nobody wants to look at something like that from their window.
There are strange places scattered around, other more familiar sites such as horse tracks.
You will see prisons on islands (Pic 1), completely overcrowded places on land and on sea, and lonely apartments in the middle of the jungle.
Constructions are everywhere, be it serial buildings that block the view for everybody behind them, matchstick-like buildings seeming to fall over any minute or huge highway with bridges to span harbors.
The "Central" area has its own crazy look with so many tall buildings with very small foot to stand on, almost tumbling down into the sea. The show-off buildings at the waterfront and in Admiralty are a spectacle by themselves to see from the top.