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Travel Blogs from Hong Kong
Just a little one
This is a top pick! ... but getting up early and cramming in loads of sights and activities can take it out of you :) The time we spent in Hong Kong was spent in Chunking mansions... i mentioned this before but I'm not sure if i mentioned that it is nothing like a ...
Buddha's & Beaches
This is a top pick! ... be needing jeans any time soon. One evening we visited 'Victoria Peak’. A tram takes you up to the highest point in Hong Kong where there are a number of shops and restaurants. We went out on to the viewing platform where the views of the city ...
Getting to know Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... A while ago when we were in England, I remember watching one of those travel documentaries about the world's most dangerous airports, and Hong Kong was featured. When you fly in here you see exactly why! We were hoping of nice views of skyscrapers from ...
The Shadow of Buddha, and, What my Students Want
This is a top pick! ... to be the largest Buddha of its kind in the world. We didn't measure it, but it certainly is impressive. After bustling Hong Kong, where we stayed in a shoebox nestled among other shoebox-size rooms in the infamous ChungKing Mansions on Nathan Road, it ...
Facemask as pret-a-porter?
This is a top pick! Surgical masks may be associated with paranoid, aging Asian immigrants back home, but I'm intrigued to report that in Hong Kong you can be young and trendy and still wear one. I just rode an escaltor with a young woman wearing fringed suede boots who ...
Fallen Goods--A Shopping Story
This is a top pick! "Want to buy a watch?" The Indian man, elegant in a suit, stops three shorts-wearing Americans on a Kowloon, Hong Kong street. "Aw, don't listen to him man. It's just a copy," one of the tourists complains to his friend. Dan and I are standing ...
The journey begins...
This is a top pick! ... and she was a real character, complete with yellow beret! We all think that she made her statistics up, e.g. she insisted that Hong Kong was home to the world's ONLY double decker tram...has she never been to Blackpool??? She was entertaining enough ...
"Oceans Two"
This is a top pick! Due to having to stay in two different hotels in Hong Kong on day 2 we left our nice hotel in Tsing Yi and headed towards where I thought the Anne Black was based on Hong Kong Island. It was hot, very hot and I got the wrong island. You would think this ...
Hong Kong Hustle
This is a top pick! ... Kalifa). The mistake people (travellers) make is to associate it with China. They are very definately two different places. Hong Kong is a mixture, a coctail of soaring humidity and heat, Hong Kong (chinese/british mix) people and some British tendencies ...
Pilgrimage to the Big Buddha
This is a top pick! ... and the Star Ferry terminal which is where they say it's best to watch the laser show from. Every night in Hong Kong, the skyline illuminates to a coordinated laser show. At the promenade on the Kowloon side you have a perfect spot to ...
Ten Thousand Buddhas-- How many wild monkeys?
This is a top pick! ... I scare them away? I've just started back up the hill to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Sha Tin, part of greater Hong Kong. I first tried to get to the monastery through another religious complex, which seems to be a center for devotions to ...
The Science of Museums
This is a top pick! ... out that you don't need to be in a theme park to have 'fun'. We just did as the kids did. This night highlighted something Hong Kong does have in common with China which we have found both amusing at times and somewhat baffling - that is the speed of the ...
A Magical Time
This is a top pick! ... sheet to avoid contamination from dodgy Vietnamese sheets and I got a buff because Em has showed me the awesomeness of them. In short, hong kong is brilliant for shopping, we also looked at some cameras and I bought one the next day. So now I have ...
Disneyland Ahoy
This is a top pick! ... light show. This is free and between July and Aug every Sat night they were also accompanying the slight show with fireworks. FAB. This was to mark the ten year anniversary of Hong Kong being handed back to the Chinese. 22nd July - Train to ...
Farewell Asia
This is a top pick! ... first Christmas tree that he has seen that rotates whilst being lit up with multicoloured fibre optics; a suitable tree for a luxurious Hong Kong apartment. Apart from eating, it seems that we do little other physical activity in HK. I attend two free ...
Days in HK
This is a top pick! ... not do much. Just some packing and work on the plans for the upcoming refurbishment. We are planning on a complete makeover for the Hong Kong apartment. It is only about 35 square meters, so we need to be very creative with space saving options. After we ...
Exploring Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... had an all-you-can-eat dim sum lunch special for about $20. Well, trying out dim sum just happened to be on my Hong Kong checklist so I decided to kill a few birds with one stone. Needless to say I tried one of everything on the menu, which ...
It's a Small World (afterall)
This is a top pick! ... sounds, it's not worth the $300 per night price tag that comes with staying there. While the Intercontinental Hong Kong is ranked number 9 on TripAdvisor, the Intercontinental Grandstanford is number 42. Honestly, there's nothing wrong with ...
Hong Kong revisited
This is a top pick! ... to see that even on her first day of her new job she ends up working just the same hours. Working here is certainly tough. Hong Kong has hundreds of small islands with a laid-back feel and we take some day trips to visit some: Lantau island now ...
What month is it? Already???
This is a top pick! ... to 75% of Hong Kong`s residents along with Kowloon. We see the fish, bird and flower markets and even stumble on a Hong Kong Football Association soccer game (the Lanwa International FA Cup) where I am tempted to suit up and play. We ...
Istanbul to Hong Kong (via Qatar)
This is a top pick! ... on a one way ticket. We had been warned that this might happen, especially with Qatar Airlines, but were also advised that Hong Kong immigration never ever check and that we could sign a waiver with the airlines as they are responsible if you get ...
World-Class Cities: Singapore and Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... , they've even built up the hillside of Victoria Peak with shops and restaurants, accessible by a series of outdoor escalators! Hong Kong's Kowloon district has a great waterfront area where we spent one entire afternoon just enjoying the sun and the ...
Back to Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... ground, but I don't know if it deserves all the local hype we had heard about it. On the train ride back to Hong Kong, we discovered a slightly unnerving fact, the only American beer sold in China is Budweiser (OK no real surprise there) and Pabst ...
Traveling in China With the In-Laws
This is a top pick! ... me. It was a nice treat to get a good meal at a decent price - we were still reeling from the cost of living in Hong Kong. On our first full day in Beijing we headed off through Tiana'men Square to the Forbidden City. It was another cold day, but ...
Water buffalo, pigs and oceans, oh my!
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; After schlepping the tent, my backpack and various things all around the train station, ridiculously overpriced Shenzhen taxicabs, and Hong Kong-China customs, I was really thankful when Max and I were finally at the head of the Maclehose trail and ...
Frantic in Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... the buildings, dimly lit cliff faces and escarpments, are lit by the low urban sun. We arrive to the techno-clinical vastness of Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport. Rachel's Aunt Lily, Uncle Pok Hai, and cousin Philip are there to meet us. Philip drives ...
In transit
This is a top pick! ... I've managed a few more hours. My original intention for this morning was to take a ferry to Central and soak up some of Hong Kong's wackiness, but I instead get some things for the trip printed then do my final IBM work for my Indian colleage Gaya. By ...
Goodbye China
This is a top pick! May17th Hong Kong The journey to Shenzen (the town on the border between Mainland China and the new territories) was one of the shortest but one of the most expensive we made in China and on boarding the train we realised why. A sleek Modern train with ...
It's the Final Countdown...
This is a top pick! ... . A trip to Stanley to complete the remembrance tour, Famke Janssen in X-Men 3, the refreshingly breezy afternoon by the Hong Kong Convention and exhibition Centre and a chance encounter with a digital piano at the Hong Kong Central Library complete the ...
Mahaffy's Travels
This is a top pick! ... being gone. But not for long. Mom brought me chocolate marshmallow eggs, which banished all thoughts but those of feasting. The train from Hong Kong to Beijing was uber-plush, and we had the added bonus of having only the four of us in a six-person ...