Ladies Market Hong Kong

Spring in Hong Kong is, for me, the perfect season to visit this dynamic city. It's nippy but not freezingly cold, comfortable but not summery hot. Coming from a tropical country, I immediately got a bothersome headache on our first day, but it then went away on the next day as my body slowly got attuned to the weather.

Although we had a …

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 …

Our visit to Hong Kong wasn't full of highlights like Koh Samui, Singapore or Siem Reap but it was a fitting end to our fantastic holiday through South East Asia. We where winding down and taking in the sights and scenery at a slow and steady pace.

Our first two nights where at the dubious but well located Kimberley Hotel. It gave us great …

Hari ini saya bertemu dengan keluarga saya yang di
Hongkong. Sebetulnya saya ditawari untuk menginap di rumahnya. Tetapi
rumah di Hongkong sangat kecil. Hanya sebuah apartemen dengan kamar 3.
Jadi kita menolak dengan alasan sudah book hotel (emang beneran sudah
book). Setelah itu, kami diajak makan dimsum yang sangat enak di

As usual we have packed in a lot of walking into our city trip. Hong Kong is a bit of a "nancy" city by comparison with mainland China. Everyone waits at the traffic lights till they turn green, no spit-dodgem, English pretty much everywhere - hardly a challenge at all! And staying in a five star hotel to boot - let me tell you I am not …

Hong Kong, here we come! After everything that happened in Vietnam, we were both eager to leave and explore a new country. We woke up early and ate a delicious breakfast at the 12th floor restaurant inside our hotel. You have to love the free hotel breakfast buffets! We left this hotel at 0800 for the airport departure to HK. Nice and smooth taxi …

Hong Kong is a walking city and we like that a lot. As there are hundreds of stores in a concentrated area, we enjoy stopping and looking at a store that catches our eye. Of course, you can hail a taxi but you'll miss the fun of people watching. A better way would be to take the train (purchase an Octopus card for its metro system - very easy to …

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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 …

Rśtuferšin gekk įfallalaust fyrir sig og var bara nokkuš žęgileg svona mišaš viš žaš sem viš höfš um įšur kynnst. A milli žess sem var sofiš, lesiš og hįmaš ķ sig kķnverskar mini mandarķnur (sem var eini maturinn okkar alla leišina ķ 10klst!) spjöllušum viš viš Rolf, nżja vin okkar og deildum feršasögum okkar į milli. Rolf hafši fundiš markašinn …

New day, New city... And wow what a city!!

Having put on a couple of pounds over the last few weeks in Chang beer and no exercise, I'm determined to lose it again. So, despite having invested in an Octopus card, that you credit in advance to pay for buses and trains etc to save carrying correct change, I opted for walking. The …

... our way out onto the hectic streets of Kowloon for some night-time browsing. Close to the hotel were the infamous Nathan road, Ladies market (not what some of you may be thinking!) full of clothes and odds & ends and Temple street night market. ...

... here, the aquarium fish market, complete and utter disregard for fish-rights here (i'm suprised they weren't all dead), the 'ladies' market, fake Louis Vitton anybody? the other night market (knocked off VCD's Rolex, and Bloody David Beckham ...

... just might be able to use in my art class this semester. After looking at a few of the other exhibitions I went off for the Ladies Market near Mong Kok station in Kowloon. This is supposed to be the best and cheapest market in HK. It runs past these ...

... 'the Golden Mile.' Kid in sweetshop material for yours truly - shops everywhere. Just a block away from Temple Street Night Market. Hong Kong is haven for shoppers. Though a bit of a shock to the monetary situaton after Thailand - the prices are ...

... in life! The newcomers enjoyed the light show, agreed that the night air was good and so we headed up Nathan Road to the Ladies market. Surprisingly - or maybe not now - I easily managed to outpace my children, who begged to go home in the end, weary ...

... streets about 1km long each. One is for the electronics bargains, another for sporting goods but the main stretch is the "Ladies Market". 100's of stalls selling clothes, watches, fake handbags, sunglasses and tons of other bric-a-brac. The BOSS did ...

... of the first day exploring Mong Kok and Kowloon. This mainly involved diving in and out of air conditioned shops and visiting the ladies market (that isn't just for ladies). We were in bed by 8:30pm absolutely knackered from lack of sleep and heat! On ...

... too far has not been high on our priority list, although it doesn't seem like there is much to do in Hong Kong anyways.   After the ladies market, we came back to the hostel to drop off our purchases, and luckily our shower was fixed! (YAY) ...

... sad, because their English was SO good (unlike our students)!! We took an hour long bus to southern part of Hong Kong Island to 'Stanley Market' and walked around shopping for a few hours then worked our way over to Aberdeen for ...

... had forgotten out trusty ponchos in the other backpack....   Oops.   So we decided to head over back to the Ladies Market to see if the shopkeepers were more willing to bargain given the heavy rain. No such luck. They were still complete ...