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- Hong Kong
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Travel Blogs from Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hong Kong We Love You
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Space Mountain Here We Come!
This is a top pick! Reluctantly, but also with great excitement we awoke early and packed up our things for check out. Into the bags went all our belongings and also everything that wasn't bolted down. They have to assume that if they make all the room accessories like ...
Off to See the Sea Horses
This is a top pick! ... some fast food and our airconditioner in front of the box when we saw a show about sea horses. An aquarium in Hong Kong successfully bred this funny-looking little creature where many other aquariums have failed. Sea horses are indiginous to the ...
Giving away $30 for accommodation
This is a top pick! There's a travel site I use for bookings and they seem to be quite good. And they are giving away $30 US credit as part of a Christmas special. No strings attached - just got to use that credit for a booking before mid-December. Go to ...
Happy new year, Singapore here we come!
This is a top pick! ... As I write this, we are packing our suitcases again off on part 2 of our trip. We leave on the 11:05 Jetstar flight from Hong Kong to Singapore tomorrow. From there we will start to explore south east Asia. All we know at this point is that we will go to ...
Gondolas and good food--Hong Kong and Macao
This is a top pick! ... it was a nice investment for our photography. We also found out that it's possible to go up the tallest building in Hong Kong--the International Financial Center--to a free museum on the 55th floor and take pictures down on the city. The museum ...
So Long Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... wise to have some dollar. Mr Kim got our first stash in Mongolia. The HSBC Premier account holders have completely separate banks in Hong Kong, so in my shorts and T-shirt I was mincing around the folk in white suits and panama’s. As usual I ...
How can anyone live in Hong Kong?
This is a top pick! ... storing it in the air. I feel it in my bones and muscles. The second thing is the smell. There is something distinctive about Hong Kong's scent. Maybe if you put putrid food scraps, Chinese medicine, sea spray, cat pee and fried squid in a bottle and ...
Hong Kong Part 2
This is a top pick! Day 24 - Sun 23rd May Lazy morning followed by lazy afternoon at the beach with Paul, Kim and Holly. Mike Duggan also turns up with his daughter Kiri who comes swimming with us. Paul is working for Mickey Mouse at the moment on the new disney park on ...
Last Day in Hong Kong & Start of Tour
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Back in Hong Kong
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Giant Buddha and a leisurely swim
This is a top pick! We left the hotel today at 9am to head for the Buddha. We took the metro to get to Lantau Island and then took the cable car up to the Giant Buddha. The cable car ride took 25mins and was a great journey in itself. Some of the views from up there were ...
Hong Kong (Fuey?)
This is a top pick! ... is a trade fair in Guangzhou we have had to book dorm room beds in a YHA miles from town for tommorrow... anyway on with Hong Kong... That evening in an attempt to stay awake we went to Happy Valley races to watch the horses, massive 15 storey stands ...
Marc DJ'ing at Buddah Lounge Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... Marc got a gig at a place called the Buddha Lounge so we stocked up with a few beers before we headed over to Hong Kong Island. We got the ferry over and as we got off the ferry there were a bunch of guys with their guitars just playing ...
H.K. revisited
This is a top pick! ... first 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 ...
Christmas With Tim Tam Tommy Ma..
This is a top pick! ... at best. All these months traveling has turned me from a drinking machine to nothing more than a rank amateur, 3 beers and I was history. Hong Kong has been an amazing stop for us. If we said we're not a little weary at this point we'd be lying. The ...
Walls, Forbidden cities, Crazy night clubs...
This is a top pick! What a cracker of a week in Beijing, Probably one of the most insane weeks of my life! I think I have had 4 hours sleep or less everynight and I finished it off last night going straight from the club to the airport! Where to start. The sites to see ...
Organised trip or do-it-yourself China
This is a top pick! ... are worthwhile? The Solution China specialist Gerald Hatherly of Abercrombie & Kent (see "Wendy Perrin's 130 Top Travel Specialists") has lived in Hong Kong for 22 years (he started with A&K in 1986 as a China tour leader) and spends 150 days a year ...
Happening Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... was exactly what drew us to Hong Kong and we weren't disappointed. The greater Hong Kong area is made up of 4 territories: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, New Territories and some outlying islands of which Lantau Island is the largest. While doing a ...
The complete opposite
This is a top pick! The Hong Kong airport is almost the complete opposite of India. It is logically and efficiently laid out; every clean washroom and gift shop resides exactly where the clear, ubiquitous maps say it should. The whole environment serves the purpose of ...
No Tibetan flags at Olympics please
This is a top pick! ... is supposed to enjoy Western-style civil liberties and grants visa-free access to citizens of many Western countries. However, Hong Kong has acted to restrict demonstrators in some cases. In May, immigration officials turned back pro-Tibet activists ...
Did someone say Yum Cha?
This is a top pick! ... As I slump my backpack onto the floor of my overpriced Causeway Bay guestroom, I've already experienced some of it - that Hong Kong excitement, vigour, energy, brilliance which, frankly, is unmatched on the Chinese mainland. At first, I suspected that it ...
Kevin the Super Athlete and Red Rain Alert!
This is a top pick! ... those international gateway cities in the world based on trade and business, but it offers much more. For instance, most of Hong Kong remains mountainous, unpopulated, and forested. Many of these areas, full of hiking trails and BBQ grills, will be ...
Lost for choice in HK
This is a top pick! ... . Every time I go in and out of the building someone offers me a knock-off bag or a tailor-made suit. I actually start liking Hong Kong. It seems a lot less shopping-mall happy-hour Disneyland and a lot more human. Even the tackiness of all the neon ...
Light Fantastic
This is a top pick! ... Kowloon I wandered down to the waterfront to watch the Symphony of Lights show which takes place every night at 8pm when many of Hong Kong's buildings and skyscrapers put on a light show to music which is pretty cool. While watching I met Cherry who lived ...
Hong Kong - shop until you drop...
This is a top pick! ... from restaurants to tailors workshops and all a little bit grubby and run down with a lift the took about 10 minutes to arrive. Definitely Hong Kong without the glamour! We loved it. The following day after a little lie-in to get over the ...
Hong Kong by night
This is a top pick! ... now that China has taken over the reins. Fortunately they seem to have worked out the 'One country, two systems' policy and Hong Kong (and probably neighbouring Macau too) seem to operate with a great deal of autonomy. I certainly didn't notice any form ...
Skyscrapers and smog
This is a top pick! Welcome to Hong Kong - the city with arguably the most spectacular harbour view in the world. Thats if you can see it.. during our 4 days here we had the odd glimpse but there was no sign of a clear day, in fact sometimes you couldn't even see the tops of ...
That is one Serious Slope
This is a top pick! With our Xmas presents needing some attention we listened to music and got the laptop up and running. With some time to spare we caught the MRT across to Central and took a taxi up to the top of Victoria Peak. Luckily we got there just in time to see ...
Hanoi & Hong Kong - Day 121
This is a top pick! ... , I'm a lucky man. I took a cab to the airport which is 30km from the centre of Hanoi to catch my evening flight to Hong Kong. Only a short 2 hour flight but I have a 12 hour wait over night in the airport before my next flight to Amsterdam. I could go ...