Showing posts with label Hong Kong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hong Kong. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Third (sunny, with a little bit of rain) day in Hong Kong

Causeway Bay to Tung Chung - MTR Train
Ting Chung to Ngong Ping - 360 cable car
Ngong Ping to Tai O - Bus Number 21
Tai O to Mui Wo - Bus Number 1
Mui O to Central - Ferry
Central to Causeway Bay - Tram

Friday, 26 July 2013

Second (rainy) day in Hong Kong

I met Phoebe and Karmen on the first week of my trip in Amsterdam and they offered to show me around HongKong. We had a lovely day which included; lots of food, dim sum for lunch (not sure about the chicken feet soup) and amongst other things pork stomach for dinner. With some street food snacks in between. I got my fortune told at the Wong Tai Sin Temple and was very unhappy withe the fortune I got. It's a good job I don't believe it. I learnt about MK (Mong Kok) style and went shopping. We went to the Museum of History and we all learnt that there are 263 Islands in Hong Kong

Thursday, 25 July 2013

First (rainy) day in Hong Kong

Some of 112 skyscrapers Hong Kong Island

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Xian to Hong Kong (via Guangzhou and Shenzhen)

As you cannot get the train directly from Xian to Hong Kong I had to get the train to Guangzhou. The train took 7 and a half hours. This was definitely a food sharing train, I was given a peach and some brown dried things in a packet, not sure what they were but they tasted fine.
The hostel in Guangzhou was definitely the strangest I have stayed in. It felt like I was staying in some ones apartment. The father sat in the corner and painted. The mother seemed to be the cleaner and the daughter dealt with the bookings. Most of the other guests were young Chinese girls who had moved to Guangzhou for work or to look for work and seemed to be permanent residents of the hostel, and some seemed to have been there so long they were part of the family.