Well guys. The flight is booked from Newcastle to Paris and then onto Hong Kong leaving September 29th and having a few days of well earned rest around Wan chai and Kowloon with my uncle and best friend who lives in the Philipines who will join me for a few days before we head back to Manila for a coupleof weeks. There will be some heavy drinking, Dim Som and good laughs to be had and Im looking forward to begining this journey. If anyone has any information for a good sight seeing short break in Honkers then please feel free [View Full Entry]

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Bin in Hong Kong, I arrived yesterday from Yangshuo, i took a over night bus, it took me almost 12 hours to get here, but the bus hat a bed instead of a chair, so i got some sleep... Have been kind of lazy to write something, but it is not the onlything, sometimes it appears that some web pages are blocked here. so i have to manage it to log in, but i thing soon will be writting more... now the time is up and im going to see some of the city... [View Full Entry]

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Hong Kong is beautiful. And hot. And humid. The traffic is worse than LA, and everyone takes cabs. We are staying with some of Rob's relatives, who have been amazing. They have taken us around for the last 2 days and shown us all different sides of Hong Kong, from downtown Hong Kong markets where live chickens, fish, and turtles are slaughtered :-( to the beautiful South side of Hong Kong where there are lush forests and beautiful views of the water and nearby islands. On our first full day here we went to city hall for dim sum, where we [View Full Entry]

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Hi all - at last I have a few moments to sit down and load a small selection of pics to our blog for you all - sorry about the delay! Will add pics for a few countries at a time. [View Full Entry]

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J:n viimeksi kirjoittaessa olin tosiaan syvalla unten mailla Singaporen kentalla. Ihmeen hyvin saa lentokentalla nukuttua! En olis uskonut, etta voin jaada koukkuun sukeltamiseen, mutta niin on nyt tainnut kayda. Harmittaa aivan sairaasti, etta sain Singaporen ilmastoinneista nuhan ja oikea korva on ollut lukossa kohta viikon, ja siksi J:lla on nyt tilillaan 5 sukellusta enemman kuin mulla!! Ma oon niin kade. Viimeisena paivana saarella yritin veden alle ihan vakisin ja 10 minuuttia kesti paasta 6 metriin, koska paineentasaus oikeassa korvassa ei sujunut. Olin jo menossa ylos paattiin hake [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Hong Kong at about 8pm and headed for Kowloon area of Tsim Tsa Su, which is a touristy area and a good place to find budget accommodation. I took the airport express train into the city and shared a taxi with a pastor to get to the place where I would be staying- Chungking Mansions. This is a rundown (understatement!) building with many hostels and guesthouses. The place is swarming with immigration workers from Africa, India, the Phillipines who live in the building. There are long lines to get up the elevators. After checking in, I went downstairs [View Full Entry]

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FLIGHT TIME TO DATE: 21.5HRS No body had ever told me about the rural side to Hong Kong. All you ever tend to hear and see of Hong Kong is the skyscrapers of the island....but this place has so much more to offer. After my sherpas quite and returned to Ireland I came back to Hong Kong, but this time I went off the beaten track a little. I had got my head around the tube and ferry systems at this stage and felt I was ready for the task! My first stop was Lantau island. Although this is the island [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Hong Kong on Sat 5th July and to be honest, we have slept better! Anyway 1:30pm and we were in Hung Hom station on Kowloon. We had read a lot about this 'Octopus' card and headed straight for getting one, via an ATM. Its simply like a credit card for Hong Kong. You buy it for 150 HKD and then you have 100HKD of credit on it. You use it for bacially anything... there are swipey things in nearly every shop. Its so handy for the metro too!! Saves buying a ticket every time. So having got that, [View Full Entry]

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Hallo allemaal, Een laatste update voor wij Hong Kong verlaten. Na ons bezoek aan Victoria peak hebben wij het drukke Kowloon bezocht (vaste land gedeelte van HK), en Nathan Road. Daar wordt alles aangeboden door Pakistanis en je wordt steeds aangesproken met : 'Copy watch sir?' , ' Tuxedo sir?' , 'Massage sir?'. En tussen het aanbod van al dit namaak loop je tussen al de echte luxe winkels. Wij hebben ook het bekende Peninsula hotel gezien met hun vloot van Rolls Royce-en die hun gasten overal naartoe voeren. Tegen dan was de zon eindelijk half verschenen en zijn we naar [View Full Entry]

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Hallo iedereen, wij zijn gisteren veilig aangekomen in Hong Kong na een lange en vermoeiende vlucht. Schitterend weer... Zodra we een voet buiten de luchthaven gezet hebben, werden wij begroet door overvloedige regenbuien :s Ondanks dit alles is het hier toch nog 30 graden. Gisteren hebben we dus niet al te veel bereikt. Wij zijn naar het centrum van het eiland geweest, wat naar de wolkenkrabbers gekeken totdat wij kletsnat waren en zijn uit miserie in een zeer sjiek shoppingcenter beland. De shopping was zodanig upscale dat wij in de McDonalds zijn moeten gaan eten. Dus onze eerste ma [View Full Entry]

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