Monday 1.20.2013

Katie and I left nice and early on Monday morning. We took several different MTRs and then a taxi to arrive at the Mai Po Nature Reserve. The Mai Po Nature Reserve is in the very northwest region of Hong Kong and borders the Mainland China line. This reserve is now run by the World Wildlife Fund. Our major purposes for this interview was 1) WWF is an NGO and we are interested in gather the perspectives of NGOs in terms of supporting ecotourism and 2) this particular location lays claim to providing ecotourism. The commute was suppose to take about an hour and 40 minutes and we always like to leave time for getting lost and time to arrive 10 minutes early. Katie and I left just after 7:15 am for our 9:30 am interview. To our surprise, we arrived at the reserve a little after 8:30. We sat in the back of a presentation that was being given to a school group. Katie was able to read the slides and give me summaries. I just enjoyed the pictures. Our interview went extremely well. We were able to understand more about the direction Hong Kong has taken and how this reserve has been successful.Our subject offered to give us a free experience through the reserve so we may do that during one of the following weekends. Then I cashed some of my travelers cheques, which are apparently old school nowadays and only very large banks will accept them... Afterwards we ran to the grocery store to grab some lunch and then it was off to the Town Centre Library to meet Amy and Paul. After work, we headed home and I went to bed early.