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Travel Blogs from Kowloon , China
Molly and her guide book
... and Molly regrets to this day as me and toby began to replacce most words with 'fong shoi'... So we fong shoid over to the Bank of China and got in the Fong Shoi to the 47th floor to get a gorgeous panoramic view of the whole of Fong Shoi. okay im done ...
Final Day in Hong Kong-Street Life
... my final entry would be a microcosm of what it is like to just walk around the neighboorhood, the sights, smells, markets, something I feel I have left out of my other pictures. I hope you enjoy. This is what is is like to walk around ...
Tea and Tai Chi
... Bengal. When the Chinese objected a war broke out and the British seized Hong Kong Island. Later conflicts gave British control of Kowloon on the mainland which was used to import even more opium. The famous 99 year lease was agreed in 1898 in exchange ...
Asias World City
This is a "fuck off" huge city. More after I find my jaw. (it's around here somewhere, wait is that it, ...
The Uniqe World of Hong Kong
... site with multitudes of ferries and boats zigzagging back and forth between the mass of skyscrapers for the 10-minute ferry ride between Kowloon Island, where we were docked, and Hong Kong Island. Our tour took us to the top of Victoria Peak via the ...
Our Hotel
This is the hotel we will be staying at while in Hong Kong. It is located in Kowloon which is on a peninsula a short ferry ride from Hing Kong Island ...
Time flies when you're having fun
... alweer mijn laatste week in Hong Kong. Zoals het nu staat is het plan om daarna met Marie Jose en Robert een toer door China te maken, waarschijnlijk Beijing, Shanghai en Xi'an (het terracotta leger). Is veel in weinig dagen, maar dan zien we wel een ...
Big City, Small Island
... has now become the land of skyscrapers. Having booked our lodgings over the Internet, we found our way to our guesthouse in Kowloon. The guesthouse was positioned on the 7th floor of an office building. A bit strange we thought. Our room was tiny, ...
Home Is Where the Adoptive Chinese Family Is
... Vietnam Consulate in Hong Kong, we noticed that Guangzhou has a consulate too. Guangzhou is on our intended train route through China to Vietnam, and it's significantly cheaper than HK. So we cut out early and came to Guangzhou. Before leaving Hong ...
Rare drankjes
HK, 8 juli 2005 Ik begin langzamerhand in een soort routine te komen hier. 's Ochtends om half negen opstaan, vlug douchen, mueslibar eten en naar college. Om half een zijn we klaar en gaan we meestal met wat mensen in de kantine eten. Soms is dat een ...
Hong Kong
... experience. Off to Japan on Friday so maybe some photos on the next blog. Now staying at the Salisbury Hotel or YMCA right on the Kowloon Peninsula. A bit quieter than Mongkok in Argyle St where I stayed the first 2 nights. Until next time ...
Hard Rock in Hong Hong
... then U2 and hopefully like AC/DC and James Taylor later. I bribed them with a stash of key chain Koala's all the way from China to Aus then back to Hong Kong. Is this ironic or what????? Had a couple of beers and chatted to some other travellers but ...
vermoeide voeten
2 juli 2005 Ik ben een paar dagen verder en het klimaat begint al te wennen. Gisteren zijn we naar the Peak geweest, wat, zoals jullie waarschijnlijk al vermoeden, een van de hoogste heuvels op Hong Kong Island is en waarvandaan je een heel mooi ...
The Tsing Ma Bridge and Hong Kong Markets
Getting to the Tsing Ma bridge is more difficult than getting to the other attractions in Hong Kong, mainly because it is out of the way and the service to it are run at hourly intervals, so again I had to practice timekeeping (it did not go well, I had ...
Hong Kong
... . Unfortunately the weather closed in or the clouds fell out of the sky one or the other (see pic's). On the way back to Kowloon we stopped at a fishing village called tai o which was like living in the 3rd century all the houses are built on bamboo as ...
One Country Two Systems
... again, rapidly enforcing a bannning and licensing system on all domestic birds to reduce chances of Bird Flue Virus. Local language: Cantonese Mainland China language: Mandarin Flag: Red with a white Bauhinia Blakeana (Native Orchid Tree ...
A new adventure....Hong Kong :)
... in the Kowloon area, which is just across the water from Hong Kong Island and a short ferry ride. The main street through downtown Kowloon, Nathan Street is bursting with shops and is an area where you are constantly asked if you want a good tailor, fake ...
Orientation
... space, the buildings seem to open it up into something larger than it is - and this is the general magic of the island, Kowloon seems to clutter and overhang, but Hong Kong Central seems to grow, rather than feeling massed. However, the gardens can ...
Ding Dong ...Hong Kong Update
... instead of one (as I recall). On Sat morning, we arrived in Shengzen, passed immigration into HK. What a complete change! Kowloon (on the mainland) is ultra modern, people speak english (thank god!), people are very trendy and this is a shopping ...
Moving On
... to one less convenient than originally intended. That was the Ocean Terminal, located across the Harbour from our hotel, in Kowloon. (Dianne's cruise ship, however, was docked in Kowloon). Our ship was docked at Terminal 4 instead and we had investigated ...
Day 26 - Hong Kong Phooey
Left for Hong Kong today. No problems. Met Jackie at the airport, good to see him again after a month! Went straigfht to the restaurant and met his family. Lots of stares! Ate far too much - the Chinese are similar to the Arabs when it comes to food and ...
Bright lights of Hong Kong
Hong Kong is made up of different areas, Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and some other Islands. We arrived at Hong Kong station after our short 24 hr train journey. First impression was one of relief. The signs were in ...
Kowloon - Got to love those chilis!
... meant to looked wrinkled and that we'd just pinched them off the local tramp. So a ruffled looking couple set off round Kowloon to find dinner when the first stand we come across had grilled octopus tentacles and lambs liver kebabs. I was up ...
Nei Ho Hong Kong
Nei Ho, Arrived in Hong Kong at about 6.00. By the time we sorted out accommodation etc and got across to Kowloon it was pretty late. When we were about to land and flying over Hong Kong the smog from the place was unreal. One side of the plane was ...
Lamma Island
Yesterday I believed that the Peak was the only place that you could find some peace and quiet in Hong Kong - that was before my trip to Lamma, the 3rd largest of the Hong Kong islands. When you first get off the ferry from Central you are confronted ...
First trip to Hong Kong
... Kong and hopped right onto their high speed train into town (which goes direct from the arrivals level exit to downtown Kowloon, in ~30 minutes). Hong Kong has an amazingly effecient transportation infrastructure. The shuttle bus dropped us off a few ...
香港!
... for Dim Sum, eating a range of different foods including various buns and my favourite, chicken claw. After dimsum we walked through Kowloon Park, and explored the Ladies market. This market was not full of ladies, neither was it was for ladies, it just ...
A quick trip to Hong Kong
... . I must say that Hong Kong is on the ball when it comes to checking in. They have 2 airport express check in booths in Kowloon and on Hong Kong island, which are attached to the subway system. The airport express bus picked us up from our hotel and ...
Return of the McPepper
... Chinese food I've ever tasted. One of the brothers is the cook, and he's planning on opening a restaurant in mainland China. I would seriously consider a trip back there just to taste his fish again. One of the sisters is a former English teacher, and ...