Blogs from Sai Kung, Hong Kong, Asia - page 3

Last Tuesday were the Chinese New Year fireworks and Mim, Lilly, James, Chris Scott, Toby, Jake and I went to Kellett Island (previously an island, however because of extensive reclaiming of land in the harbour, it is now joined onto Hong Kong Island itself) with the Youth Leader, Ajay, and his family to watch them. We had an amazing view of the fireworks and the only other people there were a few keen photographers... We took many a blurred picture of the fireworks before discovering that there was actually a firework setting on my camera which I thought was really exciting! :D We managed to narrow the photos down to 10 firework photos as we decided that you guys wouldn't be particularly interested in pages and pages of the same fireworks display... Anyway right at ... read more

Hi all, just a very quick note to say whats been happenin this last week cos we haven't blogged in ages. i went back to work last week to cover for a friend, and so not a huge amount has happened worth blogging about as the others just chilled at home most of the day. a few things did happen - on a visit to the chinese embassy to pick up our last set of visas, the card case containing my bank card, mims bank card, mims provisional driving license and her national insurance card was stolen. AH. but all is well, mim and mum went to retrace their footsteps the whole day, didnt find it and so the cards were cancelled and replacements are on their way. Mim and Alice went out to the uni ... read more

greetings once more kind readers!! i have returned to update you on the escapades of the last few days here in honky konky land. i do believe we left you after the fantasticness of big wave bay last wednesday. thursday not a huge amount happened - james and i had to learn some songs for singing in church so we spent most of the day panicking and making horrible noises, breaking glass etc. then went off with mim to do the singing and it went foine. friday was far more interesting as we got up at the crack of dawn (9 oclock) to go to an outlying island called cheung chau (see map thing below). we got the mtr to central which is the main city area of HK, big finance district thing, and then got ... read more

Hello, Today after a lovely long lie-in we hiked up the Lung Ha Wan trail. We almost died climbing up (even if James likes to think he skipped uup without breaking a sweat) But the view at the top and down-hill walk back was worth the pain :) Right, now this is James. Just to let you know, I dont do english and am crap at making sense, so you will have to learn my language. OK, so we went to Hebe Haven to eat dinner (mim,alice,myself) and it was yum. Tom Yum. Then we went to Boozer for some drinks with the 'crew' Then we took our clothes off (ish) and went into the Jacuzzi where we had a hot tub party with lots of things to drink and eat. Now we are getting warm ... read more

After a week in a hotel on Hong Kong Island, we moved out to a campground near a small seaside village called Hoi Ha in The New Territories. It was about a 35minute walk from the village to the campsite we chose. To say there were a few people out camping for the Christmas Holidays would be somewhat of a major understatement! The campground was a sea of tents. We found a spot on Christmas Day and then enjoyed the atmosphere of the place. Callum salvaged some rope and wood from the coastline and we made the boys a swing on a tree. I helped a family with their excessive bags (mostly food of course as Chinese people sure know how to eat well!) one day and we were invited to join their group for a ... read more