Hello all  We spent 4 nights in Hong Kong and had a fantastic time.  We arrived a bit groggy on Saturday afternoon around 17:45 HK time.  Our flight with Air NZ was great and we enjoyed Hairspray as our inflight movie!  We stayed at the Prince Hotel on Kowloon. It was attached to a very smart shopping centre.  We were up...

Wow, it feels like ages since I've written one of these. And really, it has been over 2 weeks, so that makes sense. The last time I posted, it was about time in the mountains. After that, I spent a whirlwind few days in Kolkata and half a day in Mumbai. The Swiss couple and I hung out the night before we both had flights, and shared a cab in the...

Hello everyone! I'm sitting in an internet cafe near the Star Ferry Pier in Kowloon, it's 11pm, my sister and me just had some wonderful Sichuan dinner and were enjoying the magnificent skyline of this booming metropole! These past three days have been absolutely great, the city is really worth a trip on its own. I got here after a long Qantas f...

Got to Hong Kong very late.  Had a "light situation" in my fancy hotel.  Basically I to the room with my key card and discovered no slot to put the key in.  Rang the doorbell (!?) a couple of times, then looked at the card.  There were directions but basically it was a proximity reader. So then I got into the room.  It w...

After a long, long flight from JFK, I finally arrived in Hong Kong.  Luckily, my flight was only delayed by an hour.  I kept busy with a number of movies, reading my mystery on who killed Humpty Dumpty, and listened to some music.  Mostly though, I slept.  The meals were okay but I enjoyed the Cup O'Noodles!  Despite all...

Getting our bearings around U of HK, then across to Kowloon for dinner with Uncle Keung and family.

Left london heathrow airport on a cold dark november evening (kicking and screaming - was dragged on to the plane.........as if!) and flew to Hong Kong.  Stayed 3 days on Hong Kong Island.  First impressions - spotlessly clean city, full of high rises (both old and modern) generally bathed in a hazy smog, a lovely harbour seperates hon...

At a little after 6 am this morning, my roommate Kate and I teetered, groggily upstairs to try to catch the sunset over Hong Kong. It was ridiculously overcast - but very warm (it looked like the kind of weather that would be freezing!) and we couldn't really see anything but make out the distant land-mass. Therefore, we decided to go back to sl...

Another quickie from an Internet cafe with pictures to follow... We're in Singapore now, but spent a hot and humid 48 hours in Hong Kong 12-14 June. HK is also a bit stinky but not as wiffy as the penguins. Another mountain - we rushed up Victoria Peak on our first day to find ourselves in the clouds. So we bought a photo of the view and had a b...

Fiona We returned to Hong Kong for a few days between Beijing and Bangkok. Our flight back was great, particularly as, having turned up at the airport in Beijing before it had even opened, we managed to bag emergency exit seats. Back in Hong Kong, we returned to the Ibis Hotel at North Point that we had stayed at during our previous week here. D...