Farewell To Hong Kong

After an uneventful trip from Auckland to Hong Kong we are departing after three days. The four of us have had a fantastic time The first day we arrived at our accommodation around ten in the morning, got showered and set off to explore Hong Kong. Lyndsay and Kaye went to the tailor and we just walked and explored. In the evening we went to see the light show on the harbour which was pretty ordinary as we couldnt hear the music and then we got spectacularly lost trying to get to the night market -helen famed for her geographical expertise made the first misdirection,and then Lyndsay's correction landed us back at the door of our lodging place-the only manifestation of jet lag so far !! . The next day we went via another huge shopping mall ( the designer shops seem to be conpicuously empty of customers with immculately dressed staff looking bored!!), to Lamma Island by ferry, a very interesting place, and there we had a seafood lunch, then caught the tram to the Peak, a fantastic view tho thru the smog -this mornings paper reported that yesterday had the worst air quality this year. In the evening we went to the night market.

Today has been our last day in Hong Kong and went to the jade market where successful purchases were made by three of us. We then went and walked around the daily food markets and this was certainly and eye opener. Live toads for sale and for the lucky, one can select their chicken whilst it is still alive. The veges looked so fresh and delicious. We went back over to Hong Hong Island and the afternoon was spent going up the external esclators to "the Levels" and the antique shops on Hollywood road. We returned to the accommodation shattered and headed on our way out to the airport for the next leg of our advednture to London.

So impressions of Hong Kong this trip

-the superb cheap, fast ,clean public transport with the great Octopus card

-wi-fi everywhere -on her ipod touch Anne could connect to trademe even on the travelators in arrivals at the airport and then from hotspot to hotspot whilst on the hundred year old trams from Causeway to Central

-just so many people

So now its off the Munich tonight and on to London in the morning.