Today is tuesday and our journey here is coming to an end. I can’t believe how fast his month has passed and how close we are to Swedish summer with everything that comes with it.
Last Sunday we arrived to Beijing from Hong Kong, our last domestic flight to our final destination in China. Hong Kong was wonderful, not what I had expected but still charming and friendly. Comparing HK and Shenzhen on mainland China is tricky. I have never experienced such great difference crossing a border as I did when we went back to Shenzhen from Hong Kong. What’s sparkling in HK is lost in Shenzhen and what made me feel like home in Hong Kong got lost in a very different culture. Now, I have been travelling in China for almost a month but I still believe it takes more to feel like home than just getting to know someone elses culture.
China is wonderful in many ways. It’s exciting and beautiful and alarming and different and loud and funny and polluted and lush and everything you can imagine. It’s millions of individuals with different lives but something that connect them. Things I cannot understand fully and things I wish I could connect with. But I still feel more home in Hong Kong just because of that hint of culture I can connect with. Because people who live there are used to people like me and I to them. Because Hong Kong is the ultimate melting point of cultures. Cultures that melt together and create one piece of beautiful humanity that live crammed together as individuals. I love it, and yes that was my love letter to Hong Kong. If you ever get the chance to visit, do it! Hopefully you’ll love the people and the air of this town as much as I did!
Grey clouds and heavy rain haunted us on the peak in HK…
Finally I would like to share some pics from antoher peak – the Great Wall! Me, Maral, Jonathan and Xiaying took a tour to visit this human presentation of power yesterday. Our mascot came with us…
/Elina
