Hong Kong Phooey
Trip Start
Jul 24, 2007
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Trip End
Ongoing
Hong Kong,
Hong Kong,
China
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Hong Kong is an amazing smorgasbord of cultures, races and identities, from the high roller financial types to the Chinese living life as it has been for centuries.
The Kong is an amazingly densely populated concrete jungle filled with people, neon and massive tower blocks......and it NEVER stops! Everything operates 24/7 and the traffic is constantly chock a block. There are so any high rise apartment blocks it makes Rathcoole look like a country club!!!!
We have been enjoying dandering round the markets, eating the local grub and windy shopping. I even got myself a new suit, wadda-ya-mean about time too???? Custom fitted no less along with a couple of trendy(new adjective for me) shirts and ties!!!
Concrete jungle
!It is also very humid here so you have to do the odd "student shower" every now and again to keep the flies away:-)
We have been here before and our favourite activity is crossing between Hong Kong and Kowloon on the famous Star ferry, for a few pennies you get history, atmosphere and people watching, grrreat.
We went on a JUNK-et............. did a wee harbour spin on an old Junk ship, a fantastic way to conjour up images of how the harbour would have been in it's heyday.
Unfortunately I didn't have to visit the Russian embassy here............but there's always next year (YNWA)
Next stop: Faster, higher, stronger..............it's Beijing
