Only a day after arriving in HK, our first visitors arrived, Danielle and Keith Binns. They are great friends who were on their honeymoon through Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, and they took an extended 3 day stop over in Hong Kong en route home to Toronto.
It was perfect to have friends to see all of the big sites with (even when Mike had to go to work). Here are some of the highlights with pics and short descriptions.... (in no particular order).
1) Catching views of the city and overpriced drinks on the 100th floor of the ICC tower. Saw bits of the nightly laser show (every day at 8pm, over 40 buildings participate!)
2) Riding the Star Ferry back and forth from HK Island to Kowloon (suburb) across the Victoria Harbour. A shocking $0.25 per ride.
3) Bus tours all around HK Island and Kowloon for some historical stories, cultural cues (acceptable to place bowl directly below mouth and shovel rice in with chop sticks but not okay to be late... doh), and to get an understanding of how to get around.
4) Taking the tram up to "the Peak" in a mountain in the centre of HK Island. It boasts incredible views and kitschy tourist stores with trinkets. It was the most niagra-falls-ified site so far, except for the actual shoving in the line ups for the tram. Seriously, we had an old man actually shoving us, and children, out of the way to get to the train first... wouldn't have been that big of a deal, if this didn't go on for over half an hour!
5) On the South side of the Island, we went on a boat ride to see the 'floating villages'... which were really just a few dozen fishermen who live on their boats and one floating restaurant. It was nice all the same, and very cool to see the boats with skyscrapers in the background.
6) An excellent night out in LKF (Lan Kwai Fong, the 'bar/club' district)... not such an excellent morning next.
This was a pretty amazing past few days, and I would LOVE to say that it was a truly unique experience.... but apparently other people have seen this too... here are a few of them at a standard crossing light.
Wow Trish! You've been there, what, less than a week, and it already looks like you've had some amazing adventures!! Great job on the blog - can't wait to hear about future experiences!! :)
ReplyDeleteBecky
Thanks Becks! It really has been wonderful. There is so much to see and do here!! We also wanted to get in as much of the city as possible in the 3 days that Danielle and Keith were here, which helped get me to most of the key attractions early on. :)
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