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Travel Blogs from Kowloon, China
HK - Hong Kong Island and Kowloon
This is a top pick! ... of the flowers stood out and gave an insight into the meticulous nature of the Hong Kong people (PICS). Venturing on to Kowloon walled city park was a challenge in itself as the taxi driver didn't speak a word of English and our Chinese wasn't too ...
Tibetan dancers to HK
This is a top pick! Yunnan Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture's Song & Dance Troupe will perform a repertoire of Tibetan dance from the idyllic land of Shangri-La in January. Group dances Reba Dance, A Tune on the Ancient Road, The Morning Song, For the Love of ...
Hong Kong - shop until you drop...
This is a top pick! ... can you), took in the atmosphere and admired the multitude of light (pretty). Next day we had a little walk around Kowloon walled gardens, which is the old old part of Kowloon, and apparently in days of yore was a very dangerous place to be, but ...
Hong Kong Shopping (in the rain)
This is a top pick! 5-20-07: Shopping in Hong Kong Jose: It took us until 11 to get out of our closet because we first had to have the shower/sink fixed so that we could take a shower. No such luck - it should be fixed by the end of the day, so we feel quite dirty. ...
Hong Kong Arrival
This is a top pick! 5-19-07 Beijing to Hong Kong After an action-packed morning full of blogging and packing, we set off for the Beijing airport. The hostel had given us a card with a map to the airport shuttle pick-up....it was fairly accurate but when we got to ...
Í'm Here!
This is a top pick! ... been out for the past 10 hours!! - in which time I have been on a boing 747, took a lovely clean and very fast train to Kowloon (where the hotel is), been in 5 mini cabs!, 2 ferries (to get to Hong Kong island), ate at a proper family run chinese food ...
Fifth Update -- Hong Kong
... . As I left Guangzhou, I had to convince myself not to be sad. I told myself that I was not really leaving China -- but I was wrong. Hong Kong is a world of its own. I am living in a place called Chungking Mansions, which is situated at ...
3 Days in Hong Kong
... 12.12.09 lots of walking with Jane and Jonathan along Canton Road,Nathan Road, Harbour City behind our hotel the Renaissance Kowloon on the foreshore of Hong Kong Harbour. Jane & Jonathan on the Star Ferry crossing to Central to the ...
Time travelling
Hong Kong was great. I really like that city. It's like timetravel to another world 50 years ahead of Ireland. The airport, the transport, buildings etc are amazing. The HongKonkers seem to like living in skyscrapers. I suppose it suits their ...
Hong Kong day 2
We decided to make a bit more use of our second day, grabbed our money and headed to Stanley Market. It was hot, cramped and very busy but we had a great time walking round for hours buying souveneirs and a few presents (which we've either flown or ...
Sky100
Bright lights of Hong Kong
... great with half of the roads closed and thousands of people just milling around and meeting friends. The second day I spent around Kowloon, walking from my hotel along the main street and stopping by a couple of the malls and relaxing in the park ...
Hong Kong
... to be new areas designated for land reclamation all the time that are a hot topic of local debate. Found a place in Kowloon without too much difficulty after being hassled by each and every tout going down Nathan Road. I had actually booked ...
Kowloon Night.
Since I only have a few days left, I thought I'd walk around Kowloon and do some shopping. As you can see, a lot of people had the same idea. I was mostly in the Mong Kok and Prince Edward districts. Along the way home, I decided ...
Hong Kong- red tape and bright lights
... live giraffe home. The two most prominent desks bore the signs 'Destination Hong Kong' and 'Destination Mainland China'. Seeing as neither really applied to my package, I headed for the 'Information' desk. Having queued for only ...
A Trip to Kowloon
A small trip to Kowloon for some shopping and to check out the area. Danielle and I rode the Star Ferry across from the new pier since the old one was shut down a month ago. We even found a bar that was showing the Rose Bowl so we're headed ...
last stop of the trip!!!
hello listeners- well this is the tale of hong kong, which turned out to be not as much fun as i expected!! i flew from phnom penh airport (where at check in there arent even any computers, the passenger list is written on paper and my name was ...
Stopover in Hong Kong
... humid; not unbearably so, but hot enough to prompt Connie for excuses about getting inside the air-conditioned shops. We stayed in Kowloon, about a ten-minute walk to the harbour. It turned out that 1st October (Sunday) was China's National Day and there ...
Not what i was expecting i must say!
My oh my, what a day.. im finally in Hong Kong.. where do i start? Well i woke up this morning tired as fuk.. only brought it upon myself.. i was only in bangkok last night i arrived there at 6pm from Koh Chang, done some last minute shopping bangd it ...
Hongkong
... Nachdem ich endlich eine U-Bahnkarte ergattert habe (auf die man immer wieder Geld drauflaedt) fahr ich bis zum Marktviertel in Kowloon. Ich werd nie wieder behaupten dieU-Bahnen in Wien sind voll!! Das was man hier erlebt ist einfach nicht zu ...
Snake: a culinary adventure!
Snake for dinner, anyone?! Eating out in Hong Kong can be fairly homogeneous because apart from the differences in climate and waiting staff, you could be in any metropolis in the world. You can get anything from a Sunday roast to a hot Thai curry. It ...
Foerste intrykk av Hong Kong!
Den 15.januar satte vi oss paa flyet til Paris for derfra og bli overfort til flyet som gikk til Hong Kong. Flyturen til Hong Kong var helt J.....! Vi kan ramse opp alt som var dritt, Totalt paa flyet ar det 4 tv'er som ikke virket, derav to av de ...
The Kong part 1
... a bordelo of hostels, I mean it was dirty, poorly lit, smelled funny, and was probably the cheapest and most popular joint in Kowloon. We arrived at the 13th floor and went to the 'Garden Hostel' reception which consisted of a folding chair in front of a ...
Sky100
... ut av dagen gikk vi til verdens 4 høyeste bygning, nemlig International Commerce Centre. Her fikk vi en fantastisk utsikt over hele Kowloon øya og Hong Kong øya. Hver dag kl 20.00 har det ett lysshow fra 40 forskjellige skyskrapere her i Hong Kong, ...
a rough start to our year in china
... see all the amazing things here! so heres a little about my stay in hong kong so far- Hong kong is like the new york of china. There's so many people, so many restaurants, and so much to do. It is crazy walking around on the streets here, i feel like ...
Fun in Hong Kong
... is surrounded by Karst Peaks (mini pointy limestone mountains!) and looks gorgeous! Unfortunately to get there we need to get a train from Hong Kong to a city on the border with China called Shenzen, and then an 11 hour overnight coach ride! Oh ...
Where East meets West
Arrived Hong Kong Friday 17:45 We took the airport link to Kowloon station. Waited 10 minutes, then jumped aboard the free shuttle bus to our hotel. Way cheaper and quicker than a taxi and surprisingly no headaches. ...
9th/10th - Exploring Hong Kong/meet the tour group
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Hong Kong - Days 36 - 38
... ferry over to HK Island to walk amongst these huge colourful buildings. Very pretty, but very businessy. We headed back to Kowloon to hit a few bars, but failed miserably to find any sort of nightlife worth bothering with. Being a Wednesday I'll let ...
Day Two
Well it is 6:02am and I have already blown out all the electricity in our fully electronic room when I attempted to test an older converter to see if it worked and I plugged in my hair dryer. When the big flame came out of the hair dryer I knew this ...