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Background: Occupied by the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was formally ceded by China the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the 19th century. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on 19 December 1984, Hong Kong became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 1 July 1997. In this agreement, China has promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be imposed on Hong Kong and that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the next 50 years.

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By geoffandmazi
October 4th 2008

Stanley

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Stanley
The building behind us is the rebuilt historical building in Stanley. "Wow we really need to learn how to use the camera"

Checking out Stanley, close to where Mazi used to live with her aunt and uncle. Cruised through Stanley Market. The market was packed with locals and tourist like us. Mazi almost got heat stroke from the extreme heat. :( The market was full of clothing, souvenirs, flowers, and street vendors. We ate at one street vendor and tried Hong Kong style french toast and cold milk tea. YUM! With Hong Kong's desire to keep heritage buildings, they moved stone blocks and stone pillars from Wan Chai to Stanley. With the stone blocks Hong Kong rebuilt a similar building by the water. [View Full Entry]

By AdamHayley
October 4th 2008

Day 3 & 4 - Hong Kong

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View from the Peak

The weather on our third day in Hong Kong was pretty awful. There was a Typhoon warning and it rained for most of the day. We just chilled out for most of the day with John and Lucy. In the evening we went for a Mexican meal and then went to a Pool Bar to play pool. John got lucky and managed to beat me 4-3 in frames - after that Hayley and I went for some cocktails in the hotel bar again. The bar was packed but we managed to get a couple of good pictures from the balcony of [View Full Entry]

By NatF
October 4th 2008

Hong Kong Island

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Ferry journey
Still smiling here as we started our journey across the island...little did we know!

Travelled to HK island today. I take back any moaning I have done about the journeys so far because this was by far the worst! Ferried over, then tube, then headed for a street name given to us by an info lady! She must have been feeling particularly cruel that day! Got to street and could only find 1 hostel. Tried there but they were full. So trekked about some more (with big 15kg bag) until gave up and went to a different info lady. She sent us to a tourist board who sent us to a non-existent hostel. 3 hours [View Full Entry]

By Dora The Explorer
October 4th 2008

Hong Kong Island

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View from the top of the Peak
You can see Kowloon Harbour where we were previously. We are now on the island over teh water - Hong Kong Island!

When I awoke on 4th October - day 3 - I felt Good!!! I had slept well again and was fairly happy that we were moving on to new a new part of Hong Kong and most of all......a new Hostel! We had already visited Tourist Information and they had advised us where to go to find a hostel! We planned our journey, put the backpacks on and set off along the 15 minute walk to the harbour! Once at the harbour we purchased breakfast from our new favourite bakery and ate it on the harbour. My back was already hurting [View Full Entry]

By AdamHayley
October 1st 2008

Day1 - Hong Kong

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Hi Everyone, We have arrived in Hong Kong! The flight was good as we managed to get upgraded to Business Class - which meant we could get some sleep on the Beds. I had loads of Champagne and white wine, which probably helped me to sleep as well. We have seen John and Lucy and they say Hi to everyone. We are just heading out to take a look at the city now and maybe to see some fireworks. Adam & Hayley xx [View Full Entry]

By Poulu
October 1st 2008

The final fling

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Hong Kong!

I'm actually writing this in London, 3 weeks after we have returned but that sounds so boring i thought i would at least add Hong Kong to the list. It was fantastic - such a vibrant, exciting place. We loved the energy. It's extremely modern, a real working city - it was a real culture shock coming from Indonesia. If HK was a person it would be a go-getting career girl just searching for the latest label, the next new thing. Shopping seems to be an obsession - all the brands are there and it ain't cheap. On the flip side, [View Full Entry]

By JHG
September 28th 2008

How to stretch a dollar!

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IFC

Finally pay day is nearing, yet I have still managed to successfully have an amazing month in Hong Kong despite lacking funds! Thus is the beauty of Hong Kong! Last week I was incredibly lucky to have two days off work thanks to typhoon Hagupit which travelled south of Hong Kong towards the mainland. The Hong Kong observatory issue warnings on the level of severity of the typhoon from T1 upwards. The strongest I've seen is T9, and Hagupit reached T8 on Tuesday evening. However, kindergarten classes are cancelled if there is a T3 warning, so I managed to get two [View Full Entry]

By Eric and Zoe
September 26th 2008

bonkers in honkers

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Good old Hong Kong felt pretty calm after some of the madness in Africa - no one trying to sell us anything, no demands for cash, pens or water bottles- we quite missed it. In fact the only 'barter' we had was when zoe admired a necklace at the jade market - within seconds the saleswoman who had started off at $300 had talked herself down to $30 -"$60! No? No? okay $50? No? Okay $40". All zoe was trying to do was decide whether she liked the necklace she wasn't even bartering (note to self - try the silent treatment [View Full Entry]

By SteveCownie
September 24th 2008

Hong Kong

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Long exposure view down from the hotel room
28th floor view down onto Connaught Rd West

Hmm first try at this So yeah, just got into Sydney today and found some sweetass internet cafe where I upload my photos onto the computer... haven't taken tooo many so far but got some nice ones I think. I think Hong Kong is definitely the kind of place that would be 20x better if you had a couple other people to walk around with... its real hot and humid and I found it a bit too easy to run out of steam and go watch La Liga reruns on Super Soccer TV at the hotel. No doubt I'm going [View Full Entry]

By dannysummer00
September 23rd 2008

當秦始皇遇上莎士比亞

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西高山
大地在我腳下國計掌於手中那個再敢多說話夷平六國是ţ... [more]

在陡峭的西高山上, 有一個台, 左邊可以看見薄扶林, 右邊可以看見獅子山, 前面是小島和大海. 我站在上面, 彷如秦始皇, 看著山下的房屋、汽車小如螞蟻, 貨輪像一塊塊的積木, 人ੋ [View Full Entry]

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