Hong Kong, Hong Kong Travel Blogs

Just a little one
Oct 21, 2008 (18 photos)

... when getting into Vietnam. We are flying onto Vietnam tomorrow and I'm looking forward to things being cheap again after a week or so in Hong Kong. What have we done in Hong Kong....not much, we missed out on a bunch of things such a s a kung fu ...

Water buffalo, pigs and oceans, oh my!
Jan 23, 2008 (10 photos)

... ; 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 ready ...

Hong Kong We Love You
Feb 1, 2005 (7 photos)

... to Soho, a big restaurant and bar district and find a Vietnamese restaurant, named Bon Appetit and eat Chinese food, while in downtown Hong Kong! There was also a great Malay guy with an Elvis hairstyle and the food was good, so we had fun. The we just ...

The Shadow of Buddha, and, What my Students Want
Dec 24, 2006

... 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 ...

Fallen Goods--A Shopping Story
Feb 4, 2007

"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 ...

H.K. revisited
Feb 23, 2005 (6 photos)

... time for cold cereal in over a year, and I was ready to go! There was an Impressionist exhibition on loan from France at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, which was perfect because it was on my way to a street market. So I rode the subway and then took the ...

The journey begins...
Feb 20, 2005 (4 photos)

... 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 though in ...

Ten Thousand Buddhas-- How many wild monkeys?
Apr 30, 2007 (17 photos)

... 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 ...

A Magical Time
Mar 12, 2009 (54 photos)

... 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
Jul 18, 2007

... 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 Beijing!

Goodbye China
May 18, 2005 (6 photos)

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 ...

Farewell Asia
Dec 19, 2005 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

Hong Kong revisited
Oct 2, 2005 (15 photos)

... 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 houses ...

Exploring Hong Kong
Apr 30, 2008 (9 photos)

... 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 ...

What month is it? Already???
May 1, 2008 (10 photos)

... 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 walk ...

Istanbul to Hong Kong (via Qatar)
Jul 17, 2007

... 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 rejected ...

Back to Hong Kong
Mar 28, 2004 (3 photos)

... 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
Apr 11, 2004 (8 photos)

... in Hong Kong to see Peg and Dave off. I think I need to take a moment to better describe the area we stayed in in Hong Kong. Kowloon looks like you might expect a part of Hong Kong to look like, lots of Neon and skyscrapers. The cheaper lodging, which ...

Frantic in Hong Kong
Aug 25, 2005 (16 photos)

... 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 ...

World-Class Cities: Singapore and Hong Kong
Nov 7, 2006 (20 photos)

... '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 sights, ...

Free Market System, Hong Kong
May 11, 2005 (3 photos)

... me, however; it's the city markets--the Wanchai market, the computer market, the bird market, and the flower market. In Hong Kong, stores are grouped together into markets. There isn't a florist in every neighborhood. Instead, there's a couple of ...

Mahaffy's Travels
Apr 12, 2004 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

It's the Final Countdown...
Jun 5, 2006 (22 photos)

... . 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 ...

Quick escape to China...
Mar 6, 2004 (1 photos)

... Dr Rob West while in Hong Kong), I get to complain for another three to six weeks. I choose six. Poor poor Phil. Hong Kong is like a shinier version of Singapore. It's just one huge shopping extravaganza, which is great if you're rich, but when $20 ...

Auckland to Hong Kong
Jul 27, 2006

... evening when it's dark. Also not keen on the roasted ducks hanging in windows, head, beak and all. Call me unadventurous... Hong Kong's culture is mainly a result of the English unforgiving desire to export into China. Back in the early 1800īs the only ...

Licking the Bowl and Eating Apples
Sep 29, 2005 (2 photos)

... cone. Nothing beats an ice cream cone after body surfing. Kevin and I also reunited with our fellow Mountain Hardware Hong Kong Aconcagua Expedition--Joe, Kevin, and John. We joked and reminisced about climbing K2 and some other 8,000 meter peaks, ...

Is the real Shangri-la a hotel chain?
Nov 11, 2008

Is the real Shangri-la a hotel chain? Having stayed at two Shangri-la hotels in Asia - both with excellent service, fantastic views, comfortable large rooms and nice takehome bath robes - I've got to say that for a traveler, the Shangri-la group hotels ...

Last Day in Hong Kong & Start of Tour
Jun 15, 2008 (8 photos)

... people going on our tour and then went to have something to eat in the night market and watched the sounds & Light show over Hong Kong Harbour which was pretty good. On our tour there is : Kevin, aged 23 from Sydney, Australia Claire, age 28 from ...

Harbour lights and more food frights
Dec 14, 2006

... stay as they are, but the overall effect is awesome and romantic.  The show is an initiative from the Hong Kong Tourism Board, in conjunction with the participating buildings, and makes an already beautiful harbour even more spectacular, for about 15 ...

Back in Hong Kong
Jul 15, 2008 (6 photos)

We arrived back in Hong Kong ariund lunchtime. The first thing we hit was a health scanner in the airport, it wasn't damaged so I picked it back up. As we passed the scanner Lorna sneezed. It was at this point I informed her that they were scanning for ...