Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Welcome to the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens.

Don't mind us Monkeys.

It is located in the city surrounded by tall buildings but beautiful with fountains and beautiful foliage.

Do you see the Scarlet Ibis or is it Ibises?

Here's the King by King George!

Unfortunately the Red Crowned Crane and most of the other birds and animals were behind heavy fences which didn't lend to getting good photos.

How do you like the root system of this tree? 

Here's quite a clump of Bamboo, too.

Polly, want a cracker?

We all love Flamingos.

Here's a great view from the gardens of a familiar looking building that you saw in last week's post.

You heard how LOUD these monkeys are, didn't you?  We're guessing that they were about four feet tall, plus they have such long arms. They are native to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.  They have a lifespan of 46 years! 

These flowers are adorning a stump; pretty huh?

The Orang-utan was massive; 4 1/2 feet tall and weighing 165 pounds!  They are members of the Great Ape family.  They live to be about 30 years old.  Currently found only in the rain forests of Borneo and Sumatra.

We hope you have a great week and you don't "monkey" around too much!

This post is a little slow about getting posted so we added a couple of photos of our friend Nancy who we knew more than 25 years ago in Vancouver, Washington.  She came to visit a couple of days over the weekend and it was great to see her!

We did a little shopping together

We even took Nancy as we visited a Seikh temple with some of our fellow missionaries.  Notice the great required hair coverings.  It was fun to be with her and she even knew one of our couples from her days at BYU. We had an unusual experience of eating there with our group and others, although the food tasted good, we probably wouldn't recommend it.

This is from the Sikh temple website: The Khalsa Diwan Sikh Temple occupies a fairly large plot on Queen's Road East, the main thoroughfare of the Wanchai district. This temple dates back to 1901 and was constructed to meet the needs of the Sikh community in Hong Kong by the Sikh members of the British Army Regiment who were stationed in Hong Kong at that time. The temple, which was developed and expanded over subsequent years, suffered much damage during World War II but was rebuilt with the help of donations. Today this Sikh temple features a peaceful and tranquil main prayer hall, a courtyard, a dining room, a kitchen and various other rooms that are used for the wide array of classes offered by the temple, which are available to everyone. 

We also rode buses and ferries together and talked and talked and caught up with each other's lives. Nancy had been in Vietnam for three months catching up on her roots there, too, as she was adopted by an LDS couple from an orphanage there.

We even rode out an amber rainstorm together; thank goodness for umbrellas!
Have a great week everybody!