Jade Market Hong Kong

In the afternoon I went into Kowloon, which is right across the harbour from Hong Kong Island. It was really cool, the buildings are old and a little run down looking, but all together they look great! I walked by Temple Street and saw people setting up the night market, then walked through the Jade Market, where everyone you look at is trying hard …

Today was a very busy day. We had a planning morning before setting off to explore Kowloon!

We started today in the flower market which was stuffed full of shops crammed with orchids, blue flowers and huge bouquets of roses, each with their own individual bud protectors. The pictures won't even do it justice but have a look as they will …

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Hong Kong is an interesting place; I am surprised at how little English is spoken. I thought it would be quite easy to communicate, from what everybody was telling us, but really it is a lot of head nodding, pointing, and in the end hoping we were understood.

We were pretty lazy this morning (except for Alan, he went to the …

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Hong Kong was a whistlestop tour of sites and bars with severe Jet Lag and a group of people I had never met before - almost like Freshers Week all over again.

The stopover started with an 11 hour plane journey on which I watched two films but did not sleep and then a 45 minute coach journey to our luxury hotel …

Jared is off in Jakarta visiting his housemate, Wazzy-bear, for the week. In addition, the chief is travelling for work, so it's just us girlies. What will we do with our unsupervised time? Oh, the answer is simple. We do what we do best. SHOPPING!!!!

We started off at the jade market. Before we left, I tried doing some research so I could …

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Today we woke up at around 9 AM. We stayed in the room for a lot of the morning, and then at around 11 AM, we left to go do some shopping. By many people that I know that have come to Hong Kong, I've been told there is a lot of smog. There is. At first I thought it was haze or fog or something, but after a few locals told me it wasn&# …

After an eleven hour flight we land in Hong Kong at 8am local time. We're met by our local guide and are taken to our hotel, although we can't check in till 2pm, so it's bags down and off to see some sights. On the first day we visited the giant Buddha and the Po Lin Monestry, Built on a mountain peak on Lantau Island it offers sublime views of the …

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so after an amazing flight from Bangkok (thanks to Sri Lankan Airlines superb service) we arrived in the bustling and busy city of Hong Kong. Hong Kong is teeming, tightly packed, and outrageously overwhelming, so nothing we are not used to. But unlike other cities we had encountered so far in Asia, Hong Kong is …

... the final stop en route to the airport. It was in a place called Kowloon and we had about 90 minutes there. It began in a Jade Market where there was all kinds of Jade on show. I bought a little bracelet which will hopefully bring me luck on my travels! ...

... price, but who really knows. Whether it was actual jade or not though they did have some pretty cool stuff. After the jade market we ended up wandering to a huge pedestrain street and there were people absolutely EVERYWHERE. We would have expected to be ...

... ' market, fake Louis Vitton anybody? the other night market (knocked off VCD's Rolex, and Bloody David Beckham paraphinalia), and the (fake) Jade market, all this left us rather jaded ah-hem sorry about that... so we thought nice dinner will sort us out, ...

... roamed the Kowloon area where our hotel was located, with the Temple Street Night Market, Jade Market and Jade Street, Flower Market, Goldfish Market and affordable local cuisine.   Hong Kong is an amazingly modern city and is well worth a ...

... with locals and failed to finish the enormous bowls of noodle soup. A couple stops along the MTR brought us to the Jade market - a sea of not only green, but all other colours in jewellery, pearls and trinkets. We returned to last night's ...

... and serene flower market before more scenes of despair in the tropical fish section. Needless to say we were very glad to reached the Jade market but not at all tempted by any of the gaudy items on offer even if we were on a shopping trip! Our next stop ...

... me when I'm eating, but better than in my hair I say!!  After paying for our over priced meal we decided to head to the jade market a bit more north.  So we hopped two stops on the metro and found the market pretty easily.  It has close to ...

... it for 20 blocks along with two other bags that were almost as heavy... ouch. We made our way down Mody Street back to the Jade Market where two of the other ladies both made some lovely purchases. After that, we finally made it back to our rooms where I ...

... it right there for you. I have a few more days to get jay to try the Peking duck, still working on it. At the jade market, jay and I split up to explore this area. Jay found perhaps the most "unique" souvenir, I am confident when you see it you will ...

... . It's just that they maintain the Asian sense of "be careful, screw insurance". Personally, I'd rather buy a metal door than an insurance policy as well. So as of now I plan to explore Hong Kong again, for certain to leave for China on ...