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Leaving our last stop, we continued our window tour and soon drove toward the Observatory

Nearly there

Walking through a set of gates, we walked along this wide road

The rows of trees on both sides are horse chestnut trees which produce dropped fruits that remind me of a giant tick

Looks very much like chestnut but the guide says they are very bitter and poisonous

and soon past this wall

We got there before they were open. I took this photo of the famous timeline through the gate

A staff cleans it before the horde of tourists waiting to get in

A statue outside the Observatory. I totally missed what the guide said about it

It overlooks this scenery

Close-up

2012 Olympic stadium on the right

Another angle

Quite a few dog walkers in the area (and also a large group of Japanese highschool girls on a study tour)

Lots of people took pictures by this clock outside the building

Not sure if you can read the words

but they explain the clock's importance

When it's opened, we were the first group to enter the small building and walk past this wall

and got up close to this exciting LINE!

I straddled two time zones, haha!

KL straddled Buenos Aires time and Sydney time

Now both on Hong Kong time

At the end of the line, there's this clock which is the Prime Meridian of The World (the jumping red digital numbers becomes just lines in the picture)