Ahoj, dnes jsme dorazili pres Londyn do rusneho Hong Kongu. Cesta byla bez problemu, cattering vyborny, jenom mohli trosku pritopit. Hlavni ukol dne bylo usmlouvat latky na Western Marketu. To se nam, zda se podarilo. Po navsteve tretiho obchodu a asi 4 hodinach jsme meli nakoupeno. Vezeme pres 10 hedvabnych latek. Jeste, ze to snad v Taipei uda...

Wednesday 3rd We sailed into a very hazy Xingang very early in the morning and as we were booked on an early tour, we too were up and organized early. There were a lot of passengers booked on tours for today - 17 buses to the Great Wall, 7 to the Forbidden City, and others going elsewhere - buses held about 40. We were some of the first to leave...

Arriving into Hong Kong by high speed hydrofoil would probably be the most spectacular way of entering this unique financial centre. The views of the harbour, bridges and towering skyline are fantastic. I took it upon myself to go outside onto the vessel's stern to take a couple of photos which turned out to be a big no-no and I was quickly call...

Arrived about 5 pm, met at Chek Lap Kok International Airport by a guide (Lam). Transferred to dinner (simple 8 item dinner) at Wah Seng Restaurant. After that, transferred to BP International Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui. Checked in and dumped baggage, then went out with the rest of the group to jalan-jalan. It was a refreshingly cool night - was gla...

Calgary to Vancouver then onto HongKong! I spent my first few nights in Kowloon at Mirador Mansions. Not much better than the ChungKing, but better!

So I have really enjoyed it here. The city is incredibly polluted, but it's a whole lot of fun. We went up to Victoria's Peak, amazing view, there are already some pics of it up......then there is this place on Queens rd that has like a mile long series of escalators..........we told our taxi driver to take us there, but escalator is not the eas...

Llegamos a Hong Kong! Esperabamos mas de esta mega ciudad donde no solo viven apilados, tambien conviven entre la mugre y el caos. La bahia es espectacular y el calor insoportable! No paro de llover en todos los dias que estuvimos en la ciudad. Lo mas positivo fue que me compre mi camara de fotos ;)

finally, we're here! it was my first time to take the airport express train, and i must say, i am in love with the experience. there's nothing quite like getting to your hostel on your own. no transfers, no cabs. you do it all on your own. and it's no wonder that a lot of people are in love with hong kong. the transportation system is just so or...

Well, it's been my first week in Hong Kong and the first weekend I've been here alone without my co-workers, Gil and Mike. *Aaaaahhh* Okay, I'm done panicking now. I don't think I mentioned it before but the office is packed! They definitely need more room to work in here. Back in KC, we have a bay of 4 people. Here they have 8! Oy...it's like s...

We were like a bunch of big kids for the day: buying fruit gums in the supermarket and munching them with French bread on the top deck of the bus as we headed around Hong Kong island. It's the kind of thing that Hong Kong does for you when you've been working harder than is good for you in Mainland China. You don't realise it, but there is no cu...