After 13 hours on the plane and 17 hours after leaving home, we landed in Hong Kong. Malesa slept most of the trip. The rest of us did our best to get some sleep, but the plane was not very comfortable. We had a short stop in Hong Kong. We arrived so early in the morning that nothing was opened except for the Cathay Pacific lounge. We had a quic...

L'arrivée vue du ciel est belle. Les tours s'enchassent dans les meandres de la cote. Chaque espace libre voit des buildings pousser dessus. L'avion se pose en douceur; je sors; la chaleur moite est bien presente; cette fois l'europe est loin. Ici s'orienter est facile. Tout est sous-titré en anglais, le reperage devient enfantin. Meme pas drole...

Another of the great things about Hong Kong is that it's a very international city. There are people from all over the world living, working and traveling in Hong Kong. And thus, there are international parties like Halloween and Oktoberfest. It's just like Oktoberfest in Munich except there are far more Chinese people in the tent and the event ...

It's been an amazing week- Hong Kong's as good as ever! I'm in Singapore at the moment for an overnight stop before heading off to Hanoi. On Tuesday night I met my second cousin Mark, who now lives in Hong Kong and is the same age as me when I lived there. It supposed to be a quick couple of drinks to catch up, but we met a couple of guys from E...

Arrivee a Hong Kong le soir, on est creves, il fait tres chaud et c'est particulierement etouffant dans une grande ville comme ca. A premiere vue ce n'est plus du tout la Chine, on dirait une sorte d'Angleterre hyperurbaine où il ferait tres chaud, et peuplee de 98% de chinois. Notre chambre d'hotel est minuscule, et la clim fait un bruit pas po...

...don't know when I'll be back again. Yes, the time has come, the bags are packed, the bags are heavy and the end of the story is just around the corner. We're leaving for the airport around sevenish, the flight doesn't take off until 11:25AM and by 2:00PM Pacific Standard Time on the 16th, we'll be in Los Angeles scrambling to make our connect...

We left LA after an hour and a half of delay. The flight departed around 01:00. "Believe it or not" the cause of the delay was a typical seasonal HEAD WIND of 80 miles/hr. Enough to make us stop at Taipei in order to refuel. The flight was 16 hrs in lenght on which I probably watched six movies. Cathay (the airline) has this cool personal screen...

Four days abroad; some 450 left to go. I've found Hong Kong surprising. Surprisingly clean, amazingly reliable, efficient, and courteous, and a surprising amount of good hiking. It's also rained everyday I've been here. Yesterday was by far the best day for me in Hong Kong. In the afternoon, I went to Lantau Island, checked out Giant Buddha, an...

I find myself sitting in a lovely apartment with a spiffy wireless connected laptop in front of me with the smells of cooking floating out of the kitchen and being so very glad I chose to start off my trip in Hong Kong! The lovely Claire was so very kind to offer to have me stay. It's certainly a treat to get to know her hubby Julian better, and...

Kung Hei Fat Choy! (Happy Chinese New Year!) It is the Lunar Year of the Pig! I wish everyone Happiness and Good Fortune! I was able to take part in Hong Kong's traditional Flower Market Fair at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay. I'm glad I went fairly early because the longer I stayed, the more crowded it got and boy, if you're claustrophobic, you...