Hong Kong Condo

The Asia Condo Board--Liana, Sid, and Josh--have been working hard for the last 2 years running the condo. It is time for a vacation. We will try our best to post photos and blog entries whenever we find Internet access. Here is the Agenda: Liana ...

... Chai Wan to Shek O Road.  7.  Hong Kong Park and Wan Chai Walk.  Start your morning off with a stroll through Hong Kong Park.  Get a local map and direct your taxi driver to take you to the Hong Kong Aviary off Kennedy Road.  ...

... the airport and then headed on to the plane after being delayed for about 20 min or so on the tarmac we arrived without incident. ALthough Hong Kong is no longer part of the UK but China, there is still a separate customs. But so far all customs has been ...

... my sunset cruise on a junk. It was an hour around the harbour, with the sun setting over the skyline. Then I walked around the Hong Kong Star walk, kinda like a walk of fame of Chinese actors. Had a bowl of wonton noodles for dinner. Then went to watch ...

... to Victoria Peak which overlooks everything, it was amazing. The real estate on the mountains behind the city proper portion of Hong Kong island is extremely expensive, for example one historic house there is going to be sold for over$300 million ...

... , they've even built up the hillside of Victoria Peak with shops and restaurants, accessible by a series of outdoor escalators! Hong Kong's Kowloon district has a great waterfront area where we spent one entire afternoon just enjoying the sun and the ...

... reflect that. We attempted to go to Outback steakhouse - until we realized that the minimum price for any entrée was about $200 Hong Kong dollars - which isn't THAT much in the US, but way more that we've been accustomed to paying and considering we ...

... , Amey and I enjoyed a harbor boat cruise to our dinner destination, the Top Deck restaurant atop the Jumbo, one of Hong Kong's oldest traditional floating restaurants yesterday evening. The harbor is narrow and shallow so the boat ride was quite rough ...

... . Went over one of the engineering marvels - a lengthy bridge and through the cleanest tunnel any one of us has ever seen. Hong Kong is essentially one high rise after the other. All condo's, apartments, hotels, offices. Checking in was easy breezy and ...

... , in no small part due to the hour of departure and our travel west.  We followed the night.  Our transfer in Hong Kong went smoothly.  Turned out we had no lost-luggage risk as we reboarded the same aircraft for the final leg to ...

... Island and Lantau Island lay await in the far distance. There was a cafe, an ice cream stand, telescopes, displays and stanchions on Hong Kong history and places to see. There was a nice gift shop where I bought two really cool, modern T-Shirts with the ...

... (I could see it out my window before the sun set!!), over the North Pole, over Russia and south to China and Hong Kong... I couldn't believe I was flying over these places which have only ever been a 2 dimensional paper on maps rolled up in classrooms ...

... -decker bus back to our stop, Tsim Sha Tsui. For HK$26, we got a one hour tour of Hong Kong showcasing its interesting architecture. We saw a condo/apartment building that was shaped like a wave, some with cut outs/holes through them, and some that were ...

... for such a long flight.  I am hoping for a newer plane and sleepers on the way home, just to try them out. Sunday in Hong Kong is one of the busiest days as everyone is off (most work 6 days a week) and out shopping and eating with family.  ...

Hong Kong is clearlya world class city with a market which may be second only to NY's as far as importance. There are multiple TV channels here devoted to us and world stock markets and the business section is the paper's largest. It all began in China in ...

... to enter a lottery to get plates for it.  You do get a few months grace period to drive it; and 4) you can own a condo or apartment, but not the land it’s on because the government owns all the land.  At the Bund, we witnessed the mixture ...

... mountains. Monks are quite nice. From Tung Chung station, you can take a bus to the discovery beach. This looks like a condo resort for rich foreigners. You see touns of foreign kids coming back from school and speaking french, german, english... The ...

... than wash the old... :-)), Chacos, and messy hairdo, I'm afraid that I stuck out like a sore thumb amongst the Paris Hiltons of Hong Kong.  Such a neat experience though - I loved it - the lights, the people, the action - soooo much to see!!!  ...