Baipulitang Youth Hostel
Travel Blogs from Hong Kong
The Year Alex Got Everything He Wanted for Xmas
... crystal necklace that showed you the future
2) A Pet Monkey
3) A Christmas Wish Box: this was a box that was prominently featured in "the Little Einstein's" show that Alex watched religiously when he was younger... and that Trentin now watched religiously. It granted the bearer of the box one Christmas Wish. As it seemed like it could be anything he wanted, Alex was hooked. Plus, Trentin would think it was cool.
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A long day
As a person who doesn't like mornings getting a morning flight is not the best option. It doesn't help matters when your travelling companion is not a morning person either and we both have been woken early to get the airport.
Therefore we were at the airport about 04:15 and check in didn't happen till 05;00 approximately. First in line and upstairs to dodge around all the people heading to ...
Hong Kong
... citizens of China. Under the"one country, two systems" principle, it has it's own form of government with elected leaders, a separate judiciary, and its own currency. This policy will last until at least 2047, and at present seems to be working well. On arrival, after immigration and customs, it was about a 45 minute bus ride to our hotel. We stayed on Hong Kong Island near Causeway Bay. The hotel is centrally located and within walking distance of ...
Last Day - Side Trip
Checked our baggage in city centre, how convenient, left rest in left luggage and headed off to see The Big Buddha. This involved a journey on the cable car. (Un)fortunately it was closed for maintenance and we had to go by bus. It is not golden and looks like it's made of cement and up 900 steps. Being us we took our pics from the base of the steps. The ...
Central, Mid-Levels, Western
... greed although there were some english signs. You take a long escalator up which swallows you into the upper level base of the HSBC building
Inside the entire building is a hollow shell from which you can look to the upper floors. They all have outer perimiters looking down on to the elevated first floor base ...