Cheung Chau B & B
Travel Blogs from Hong Kong
Dim sum and chocolate strawberry daiquiris
... Art Deco type style room - to even a bar or club, a room. One tiny bar, that only sells cocktails and steaming with pilots, uber wealthy business men and the likes there of. Lou said a lot of the Cathay Pacific pilots hang out there, she didn't know we were flying with Cathay pacific the next day but jeez our flight was dodgy to Bali. So the comment at the start of this "evening piece", chocolate strawberry daiquiris are evil - this is where they come from. ...
Im Kreis gedreht!
So, es ist wieder soweit. Die letzten beiden Tage habe ich wieder eine Menge erlebt. Angefangen mit meinem persönlichen Highlight: ich war im Ocean Park in Hongkong, einer Mischung aus Zoo und Freizeitpark. Und dort gibt es Pandas! Seit ich in Englisch in der 8. Klasse mal ein Referat über die Bären halten musste, sind sie meine absoluten Lieblingstier. Jetzt habe ich sie endlich mal live gesehen. Zum knuddeln die Dinger! Und so schön faul, ...
~ Hectic Hong Kong ~
... excellent view of Lantau Island and its surroundings while riding up, but it is really just a good opportunity for a nap. They took our photo at the bottom and when we disembarked at the top, we were quickly spotted by employees with coffee mugs and snow globes with our photos already inside. After realizing we weren't interested in buying them they quickly replaced our photos with the next couple and went after them.
The Buddha itself is ...
Hong Kong, a skyscraper city
... photos will look like? One of the things to do is go up the 'Peak' on the Peak Tram (again I expect Yvonne will have been on this?), this is the top point of the island and gives an incredible view over the city and harbour etc. it's a funicular railway, so very steep! They have built a 'sky platform' on the top of the terminus which is very special, we went up this and I hope the pictures do it justice! So ...
Day 87 Hong Kong
Today was our first proper look at Hong Kong so after a huge hotel breakfast we headed down to the waterfront to have a look at the hugely impressive city skyline. On the waterfront there was an avenue of stars, we only recognised Jacky Chan and the statue of Brue Lee. We took the famous star ferry to Hong Kong Island and made our ways to the cities most famous tourist attraction- the Peak. After about a half ...