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Downtown Honolulu, Hawaii夏威夷火奴鲁鲁市中心

火奴鲁鲁中文又称檀香山。火奴鲁鲁市中心是夏威夷历史、文化和经济中心，本文将介绍檀香山市中心的重要历史建筑。同属火奴鲁鲁市中心的檀香山唐人街和海港区有专文介绍，可以点相应链接阅读。另外，檀香山中央商务区还有众多的高楼大厦，简直不输香港，让初来乍到的游客吓一跳。

Hawaii State Capitol
Hawaii State Capitol

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Aqua Continental Hotel

Aqua Continental Hotel is just steps from the beach, just like most hotels here in Waikiki.

It has complimentary WiFi throughout hotel. Sometimes, WiFi broke in my room and I had to ask them to reconfigure the network. When the Internet broke at night, nobody could help me. But the WiFi in the lobby may still be working. So you can almost always get WiFi connection from somewhere in the hotel.

The safe-deposit box in the room is free to use. But if you lose the key, you’ll have to pay $100 to open it.

The room is clean. The TV has dozens of channels including Travel Channel, CNN, ABC and local news channels. Hair blower, iron and ironing board are all there in the room.

My room has pretty good view. If it wasn’t blocked by those high-rise buildings, I could get a better sea view from my room.

Buffalo Niagara Falls Airport

This is the bus stop where I wait for the bus No. 24 to the airport. The bus fare is .75.

Standing in front of an abandoned building, the bus shelter is also a homeless person’s “home”.

All bus drivers I saw in Buffalo were black. Most passengers on the bus were black too. The only few white passengers looked like homeless people. One guy even had his pants half down. I was the only Asian I saw in Buffalo during these days.

I thought maybe Buffalo is a black-dominated city. At the airport, most airport workers were black too. However, almost all passengers were white. I did see a few Asian faces. But I saw even less black passengers.

When I say black in this post, I mean African Black. I don’t remember seeing any South Asian people in Buffalo. While in Toronto airport, most workers there seem to be South Asian.

Buffalo

Buffalo is a great place to take pictures not only because there’s lots of fabulous buildings here but also because there’s no pedestrians to block your camera.The city is dead.

I hardly saw anyone walking on downtown streets. At around 6pm, I sit at a downtown Metrorail station waiting for the train for more than half an hour. I only saw one person – a homeless black guy passing by with his shopping cart.

When I walked around downtown Buffalo, the few who were out on the streets were mostly panhandlers, black. I did see some white people dining at restaurants. I guess they all have a car.

Actually, there’s not many card on the street either. Most parking lots were empty. At some parking lots, you can see a black man waving a red flag trying to get cars to park at his parking lot.

At the hostel, I only saw 4 guests including myself during my 15-hour stay.
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