Skyline on Crack & John Tesh
Click image to see and hear light show
In Hong Kong we stayed at a hotel run by Jesus' people: The YMCA Salisbury. We stayed there not because we're practicing Christians needing to find fellowship with other Jesus worshippers from around the globe, but because the views from the hotel were spectacular and the room rate was over $200 cheaper a night than the luxury hotel next door. The area we stayed in is in an area called Kowloon and it's situated across Victoria Harbor from Hong Kong Island - Hong Kong's Brooklyn. And just as Brooklyn is the best place to see the Manhattan skyline, Kowloon is the best vantage point to see the illuminated skyscraper cubes that climb Hong Kong Islands dramatic hills.
On our second night in Hong Kong, having recovered from our sugar crash and woken from our jet lag recovery nap we looked out the window and wondered aloud, why the whole sky was flashing with laser lights.
Every night Hong Kong's tourism bureau puts on a laser light show that could rival the Pink Floyd light show thousands of times over. And even more exciting was when we learned that there's a radio station which plays music to which the light show is choreographed. Think John Tesh on crack.
Over 30 buildings in the Hong Kong skyline have lights up and down the sides so they can participate in this fantastic spectacle. We've seen nothing like it before but hope that cities across the great USA will begin to adopt this approach to urban planning.
