Hong Kong

After an exhausting 26 hour journey we finally arrived in Hong Kong – via a rather wonderful 12 hour stop off in Delhi, serves us right for booking the cheapest way to HK as possible!!!

The long journey was well worth it though, for one Starbucks was cheaper than at home so I got started on the vanilla lattes straight away but mainly because Hong Kong is an amazing city. Daniel (Ben’s Brother) came to meet us at the airport which was so nice and we headed to his and Steph’s amazing pad in an area of HK called Kowloon – it was like being in a 5 star resort with swimming pools and concierge service, our little bit of luxury before we started slumming it in Asian hostels!

We did so much in Hong Kong, even though we were only there for a week. We caught the tram up to Victoria Peak to catch a glimpse of the notorious skyline and wow what a sight the city is! Best skyline I have ever seen, I don’t think many in the world can rival it either.

One day all four of us (Dan, Steph, Ben and I) went to Disneyland – it is quite a small park but we had an amazing day, went on every single ride and saw all the shows, which I loved.

The next day we all took a trip to see the Giant Buddha out on Lantau Island and the small and extremely smelly fishing village of Tai O. The tour guide compared the village to Italy’s Venice, obviously he had never been, or in fact seen pictures! The Giant Buddha was a great site and despite the immense heat we managed it up to the top for some good old photo opps!

We also met up with my friends from Uni that night, Winnie and Dan. They took us to this really interesting restaurant in an apartment – it was like a secret restaurant and the food was great, 10 courses of vegetarian dishes although some of the food did look, taste and feel suspiciously like meat!

Ben and I managed to fit in another theme park too – Ocean Park. There were pandas and dolphins and rollercoaster’s, a really good day but it was sooooo hot and there was nowhere to escape the heat.

We had a great time scoping out the markets of Hong Kong too, they are amazing. The fake items are so so so convincing, they must be made by the same people or something?

Bought way too much though and Ben couldn’t escape the lure of the watches, personally for me I was loving the tat, random Chinese crap but I ruddy love it!!!