Monday, July 26, 2010
We are flying back to Sydney today. Boo!! :( There are still so many places that we haven't seen.
When we first planned this trip, we thought 6 days is more than enough to see HK and had even planned to go to Macau. Obviously we were wrong. 6 days isn't enough to check out HK at all! I’ve still got a lot on my to-see list and it's really sad that everything was over so fast. We were already starting to get used to the city and their working hours and we love it here. It's a really nice city to visit and I actually have a lot of relatives here who I haven't seen in years. Hopefully we get to come back here soon and for longer this time. We would prob spend more time just enjoying the city and not got at an Amazing Race pace trying to cross out everything on everyone’s lists hahahaha.
Sidenote; everyone here actually thinks that I'm one of them and always start talking to me in Cantonnese! I don't think I look like Honkies at all.
When we first planned this trip, we thought 6 days is more than enough to see HK and had even planned to go to Macau. Obviously we were wrong. 6 days isn't enough to check out HK at all! I’ve still got a lot on my to-see list and it's really sad that everything was over so fast. We were already starting to get used to the city and their working hours and we love it here. It's a really nice city to visit and I actually have a lot of relatives here who I haven't seen in years. Hopefully we get to come back here soon and for longer this time. We would prob spend more time just enjoying the city and not got at an Amazing Race pace trying to cross out everything on everyone’s lists hahahaha.
Sidenote; everyone here actually thinks that I'm one of them and always start talking to me in Cantonnese! I don't think I look like Honkies at all.
We will arrive in Sydney in the night time. Luckily, I took Tuesday off too, so I can unpacked, rest and prepare myself for work on Wednesday. Can't wait for my next holiday again. Bring on December!!!!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Last full day in HK. First on the schedule is Ocean park. It's a huge theme park in HK. We took a bus to get there and since it's the weekend, there's thousands of people there already. It took us ages just to even do 1 ride. It was fun nevertheless. We took the cable car again and got to see a panda, red panda and seals in their animals exhibits area. The weather is really hot tho, it makes you just want to stay indoors or somewhere with air con like the panda's area hahaha.
After we finished with Ocean's park, we took a ferry to Harbour City mall. It's a large shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui area. They sell some really nice stuff and I got myself a cool jacket that was on sale in one of the shops there. We spent a couple hrs there until sunset until the weather cooled down a bit before we headed to Ladies market again. We just wanted to check it out and get ourselves a couple of souvenirs before we fly back tomorrow. It's kinda sad that my holiday has almost come to an end :(
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
After lunch, Darren and Tum had to go back to city and to the airport, so David and I continued checking out the temples near the area. Once we finished, we caught the bus back to Admiralty area and checked out the Pacific Place mall. It's one of HK's swankiest malls. We like it there because it's got air-con. It sells all the high end brands like LV and Burberry. We hung out there for a while and then we moved on to Causeway bay, which is only 2 train stops away from Admiralty. Causeway Bay is one of HK's major shopping districts with Times square and SOGO. We didn't even get to check out SOGO because it was getting really late and everything was starting to close. Oh well, put that on the list for the next HK trip:)
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Friday, July 23, 2010
It's Disneyland of course!!! One of my main reasons to go to HK was to visit Disneyland, so I was definitely planning to spend a full day there.
The weather finally picked up. It stopped raining and returned to hot, humid summer weather again. We caught the train there and then we had to catch the transporting Mickey train to Disneyland. The train was so cool!! Wish they have that trains everywhere.
The weather finally picked up. It stopped raining and returned to hot, humid summer weather again. We caught the train there and then we had to catch the transporting Mickey train to Disneyland. The train was so cool!! Wish they have that trains everywhere.
It was busy as expected and we had to queue for ages to get on a ride. I don't really mind queueing since it at least kept us in the shade. My favourite ride was the Space Mountain and we ended up doing it twice. We stayed there until the closing time fireworks. I luv, luv luv it there. It's smaller than the one in LA but in saying that, we missed on 2 rides already and I think they're expanding it soon since we saw constructions nearby.
I bought myself a Chip n' Dale mug and chocolates since I'm a huge fans of Chip n' Dale. It's actually quite hard to find their merchandises since they're not the most popular Disney character. Toy story gallore there.
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I bought myself a Chip n' Dale mug and chocolates since I'm a huge fans of Chip n' Dale. It's actually quite hard to find their merchandises since they're not the most popular Disney character. Toy story gallore there.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Day 2 and a half! First on the schedule was Wong Tai Sin Temple. It is one of the most famous shrines in HK. We caught the train there. The weather was still bad, by the way. Luckily, we armed ourselves with brollies.
After checking out the temple, we caught the train again to see the Big Buddha. It's the world's largest outdoor bronze Buddha statue and in order to get there, we had to take a 25 minute trip on Ngong Ping 360 cable car. It was really windy and foggy while we're on it, which was actually quite scary. We couldn't even see the statue due to the fog. It cleared up a bit once we get to the top. We didn't spend much time there since it was almost closing time so we headed back down and went to this outlet mall near the train station. It's called Citygate outlets and it's the largest outlet mall in HK. We didn't buy anything though, just window shopping mostly.
For dinner, we decided to go to Jumbo Kingdom floating restaurant. We caught a bus to Aberdeen and then a small connecting boat to get there. It was quite empty when we were there, maybe its coz it was a bit late and in the middle of the week. We had Peking Duck and something else that I completely forgot hahaha. It was good and the price was roughly similar to Sydney price, but in my opinion, I think BBQ king's Peking duck in Sydney is much better. Maybe because I had my first ever Peking duck there and it set my tastebuds.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
On our first full day in HK, right on cue, the typhoon and rain started. We caught up with Darren and Tum at the lobby and started making our way to Soho area. It's a shopping and food district there with apparently the world's longest covered escalator. We went all the way up and back down again and walked our way to The Peak tram station.
We caught the really cool tram to the top of Victoria peak where there's shopping mall and a lookout to see HK city. It also got HK's Madame Tussaud's wax museum there (we didn't check it out since David, Darren and Tum obvs weren't familiar with HK stars. Unfortunately, the rain, wind and fog was quite bad we didn't see much of the city at all and we mostly stayed indoors having lunch and coffee to wait until the rain drizzled down a bit. We then went trekking our way back down, caught the bus to the ferry terminal and caught a ferry to go to Temple market.
Temple market is basically an outdoor Paddy's market. They both sell quite similar stuff - mostly souvenirs and fake watches and other random items. We wondered around for a while, then David and I went back to Victoria Harbour to check out Symphony of Lights. It was quite underwhelming but I think it's due to the bad weather. Since it was still early, we decided to check out Ladies market. It's slightly bigger than Temple market and I think they have better stuff there. We got back to our hotel around midnight. It's been a full-on first day. Was great except for the shitty weather. Hopefully tomorrow the weather will pick up a bit.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
I'm flying to HK today -finally! Been waiting for this holiday for ages. I'm sick of the cold Sydney winter and Hong Kong will be the perfect remedy for it. We (David and I) will be flying with Qantas early in the morning and arriving late in the arvo there. Darren organised the flights and accomodation and we are gonna stay in Tsim Sha Tsui area. It's gonna be my first time in Hong Kong, so I'm really excited.
We arrived on time and caught the train straight to the bus stop that dropped us not far from the hotel. Once we checked in, we decided to do the ferry night cruise, but apparently we're supposed to booked it the day before, so we've missed it. We then just walked around the area and to Victoria Harbour to see the night view of Hong Kong. The walkway area there is called "Avenue of the stars" and it's filled with hand prints of Hong Kong movie stars, some of whom I recognise. It's so nice to be able to walk around in just a t-shirt, shorts and thongs. No annoying winter jackets, but apparently we are expecting a typhoon tomorrow. Just my luck hahaha but so far, I love everything here.
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Saturday, July 3, 2010
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