Hi all - just completed the 14 hour flight to Hong Kong and we are now catching another plane to Manila.  I didn't sleep much - maybe 2 hours but many people in our group caught 8 hours or so.  It was a good flight although landing in Hong Kong is somewhat different than anything I've ever experienced.  I kind of feel like I've be...

Last day in Hong Kong so with so many things to do we decided to go with the recommendations and take the tram from one end of Hong Kong Island to the other. All this for about 14p. After the business district and shopping malls in the centre you come into the working streets ( not that i'm suggesting business men don't work!!). In one part...

Since my last entry a couple of weeks ago, have left Australia from Darwin airport, stopped for a few days in Bali and arrived in Hong Kong. In my last week before flying out, I took a three day tour of Kakadu and Lichfield National Parks. The former is rare in being a world heritage site for both cultural and environmental reason...

Hi there... First thing I noticed: Illuminated signs everywhere! Too many, crazy - cool! Being a total metropolis-buff, this is my kind of place. I found it very enjoyable to get lost in this mega-city. There are more things to see within the shortest time than a normal brain can process: skyscrapers, canary birds, mountains, Tai Chi, double-dec...

It was a little misty as we boarded the Star Ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong Central, but we could clearly make out the iconic Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank building and the new Bank of China building across this famous harbour. However, if my vision of wandering through narrow streets at dusk beneath the tangle of neon signs, snacking on tasty frie...

Yvonne spent September to early December in HK. Christian is visiting for the final two weeks of the exchange program.

We will arrive late in the day and will probably get some food and pass out. I will update this once we arrive.

A good sleep, Rice Krispies for breakfast, first time for cold cereal in over a year, and I was ready to go! There was an Impressionist exhibition on loan from France at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, which was perfect because it was on my way to a street market. So I rode the subway and then took the ferry across the bay, stopping at a bookstore ...

Hello there everybody! Oh wat a fabulous few days we've had! First things first though. Im sure you will all be overjoyed to hear that we have found ENGLISH BREAKFAST TEA - BRITISH TEA...not quite tetleys,but close. Thank the heavens! Now, we'll start from where we left off last time! That was Friday, on saturday we had a fabulous day! We ventur...

It has begun. That, in a few words, is a good way to sum up the beginning of my travels abroad this year. But, things did not go as smoothly as one might hope. Here is the story of my first 36 hours, which have proven to be memorable, frustrating, and exciting. Upon arriving at the airport (YYZ) at 6:40 a.m. Saturday, August 21st (EST) and reali...