The other benefit of a room with a view is the magnificent skyline of majestic sky scrapers that impresses even me, a jaded New Yorker! So how can one possibly improve upon this spectacular setting? Add a nightly dazzling light show that plays off 47 waterfront buildings and you have "A Symphony of Lights"!
Cited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest permanent light and sound show, this extravaganza of colored lights set to music is truly the icing on the cake. I had seen the light show from various viewpoints but last Sunday, on my final night in Hong Kong, I took the Star Ferry across to Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon waterfront for a prime view of the fifteen minute spectacular.
The boardwalk was jammed with tourists on this mild night, and at eight o'clock, on the dot, the music started and the light show began...
Laser lights, search lights and projection lighting in all colors of the rainbow flashed, strobed and migrated in patterns, pictures, and blasts. And before I knew it, the show was over and it was time to get back on the Star Ferry and return to the Hong Kong side for a Peking Duck dinner. It was the perfect end to a wonderful trip!
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