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Hong Kong Slideshow
Hong Kong
Travel Blogs from Hong Kong, China
HONG KONG LOOKS BEST WITH YOUR FACE PRESSED AGAINS
This is a top pick! ... top of the building lights up like a disembodied landing pad for an alien mothership. Right beside it is the famous Bank of China building which collapses upon itself section by section until one corner reaches up to be the highest (manmade) point in ...
Lan Kwai Fong
This is a top pick! We start the evening around 630 by taking the city tram (kinda like a San Fran streetcar) back to the Soho area and eat at a cheap, but quality noodle joint and then pop over to Kwai Fong Lu, the bar district in HK. Where HK can get expensive is dining ...
Not for the faint hearted
This is a top pick! ... is totally free then I should be able to sit within 20m of McCrap's and get a signal. This proved to be untrue in both Hong Kong and Canterbury. We checked in for our 13 hour flight to London around 9pm, but were not so lucky with the seating this ...
"Full House"
This is a top pick! ... city's greatest hotel bargains when costed per head! And what a panorama we have! A 180o (almost) uninterrupted view across to Hong Kong Island from a corner room. The boat traffic on Victoria Harbour is constant and varied - the red-sailed Duk Ling ...
So behind in the journal...
This is a top pick! ... quality time on this journal when I get a chance. Just a quick update to let everyone know I've arrived in Hong Kong and I'm simply overwhelmed. Today has probably been the most difficult day of the trip with communication problems being the biggest ...
"Wanna buy a suit?"
This is a top pick! ... with the infamous Chunking Mansions being the main alternative, which from reports was not a favorable option. Walking down Nathan Road, Hong Kong appeared even more crowded than Tokyo which would have been hard for me to believe just a few weeks ...
Girls' Day Out
This is a top pick! Rohan spent last night and half of today at the home of his school friend, David, creating the perfect opportunity for we girls to explore the Flower, Jade and Price Edward markets. The flower market dissappointed in that it turned ...
Hong Kong by day
This is a top pick! ... urban landscape. Some of the architecture is quite avante-garde, with the Lippo and Bank of China buildings standing out on the southern, Hong Kong Island side of the channel. Other mainly residential districts that also line the harbour, such as ...
We're in Hong Kong!
This is a top pick! written by Jesse We made if safe and sound to Hong Kong yesterday around 5:00pm local time (2am PST). The flight from Vancouver Britsh Columbia was 13 hours. It was a relatively uneventful flight, minus the fella behind us that talked incessantly until ...
Dear Hong Kong Airport
This is a top pick! You are one strange strange place. I have never been stared at so often in my life. I had a girl sitting a few seats down from me take my picture 3 times on her phone. She kept staring at me and when i looked her way she stared down at ...
Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... us!) we eventually met him at a bus stop near his home. He took us to his flat which was in a really unique area of Hong Kong where the buildings are only three stories high built according to rules laid down when they were giving away plots of land for ...
Our first full day in Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... on a 45 degree incline. It would have been exciting if the tram is going fast. You get this amazing panoramic view of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. Tons of tourist traps on the peak. We did the peak loop trail, lush tropical plants along with amazing ...
LET'S GO TODAY, IN A HEART BEAT
This is a top pick! ... that will never happen. Back to HK - one more day of touring the city, climbing to the 43rd floor of the Bank of China building, and dinner in Causeway Bay; one more night of Carnegie's where Carlson, "fresh meat" for HKU students, became everyone's ...
People, Peaks and Peking Duck
This is a top pick! ... fast as we passed through the windy mountain roads of Repulse Bay and Stanley. Did you know there are over 1600 Rolls Royces in Hong Kong and number plates don't have the (unlucky) number four in them. The BOSS had been looking forward to shopping in ...
Relaxing in Hong Kong
This is a top pick! I arrived safely in Hong Kong on Tuesday evening. I've been relaxing ever since. It's far too hot to do anything and Dave's house is pretty far away from all the touristy places. It's nice just relaxing and doing nothing for a few days. Went out for ...
"Copy Rolex.. nice suit for you, Sir?"
This is a top pick! ... decide where to go. Going to the mainland After a good tour of Macau it was time to head into mainland China proper - Hong Kong and Macau are called SAR's, or special administrative regions, of China and although they ultimately take their orders ...
Hong Kong: Glitz and glamour
This is a top pick! ... in hope of finding some cheap food. We walked aimlessly for a while without success and ended up in McDonald's! Good old trusty McDonald's! Hong Kong has the longest escalator in the World (over 800m long), so the next day I went in search of it over ...
Pacific Crossings and Hong Kong continued
This is a top pick! ... , Amey and I enjoyed a harbor boat cruise to our dinner destination, the Top Deck restaurant atop the Jumbo, one of Hong Kong's oldest traditional floating restaurants yesterday evening. The harbor is narrow and shallow so the boat ride was quite rough ...
Hong Konged
This is a top pick! ... for the tall white guy and we met in the Causeway Bay MTR station. Usually saying tall white guy works everywhere but especially so in Hong Kong. What an incredible person she is and has been an amazing tour guide. Over the next few days she took me to ...
Super Typhoon Imbudo
This is a top pick! ... wind and rain. It's nice just now because it's slightly cooler than normal. I'm hoping to move on to Thailand in a week or two. Before that I'm planning to see Macau and Lantau - both islands near Hong Kong and also take a trip up to Shenzen in ...
10 years already?
This is a top pick! ... a number of VIPs where coming to a big ceremony taking place later that night to help mark the 10th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China. As a result the hill up to Buddha was closed off and a large stage was set up in front of the ...
Hong Kong - the colourful city
This is a top pick! ... of nations from every continent. They seem thoroughly undeterred by their new Chinese masters so that Hong Kong is the most diverse city in China on every level whether judged by ethnic origin, religion, dress, occupation, leisure activities or dining ...
Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; Marc has a gig in a bar/club on Sat night so that’s gonna be cool. The next day we spent about 12 hours wandering Hong Kong the weather was great - went to the bird market where they have loads of birds for sale - we got to hold some but I was ...
FROM GRINGO TO GWAI-LO: JORDAN'S AMAZING ADVENTURE
This is a top pick! ... destination, and a full 23 hours after I last saw it. And you thought that night with the rubber chicken was long. So...5 days in Hong Kong and I'm blown away. Everything here is so cool. I haven't had time to take it all in - my first few days have ...
Love Hate Relationship
This is a top pick! ... bathroom with a shower head on top of the toilet. One thing that has really stood out for me in comparing Hong Kong to mainland China is the dress-code of the locals. People here are exquisitely dressed with the unbelievable fashion. I put my hat ...
We learnt a lesson from our short ...
This is a top pick! ... car park is something else... full of Mercs, Porches, Ferraris.. and of course Richard and Emma's people-carrier. Highlights of Hong Kong included: - Star Ferry to Kowloon at night. This only takes 15 minutes and costs about 20p to travel on the ...
Night Of Hell
This is a top pick! ... tout tried to offer us a place to stay, perhaps they realised what the answer would be? We were leaving Kowloon to go to Hong Kong Island, where our new hostel was located. The heat was pretty bad and I had a bad back after last nights killer excuse ...
Hong Kong
This is a top pick! ... we saw for apartments in the city, most people live in conditions not very different from that: a 600ft2 apartment goes for 4 million Hong Kong dollars (about $700k Canadian). We did have some good times here exploring the city; we went on the longest ...
From iPod to Tripod, the fall of shopping in HK
This is a top pick! ... will be really useful, a little tripod for my camera. Certainally not as funky as a iPod, but at only 4 pounds an absolute bargin! Hong Kong also marked the end of the trail for our little gang of three. Due to my change of plans I'd be flying out of ...