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Published: September 13th 2012
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Dear zoyka,
This is me from Hong Kong Airport, I am currently waiting for departure, so I am writing you a little about my adventures like I am planning on doing throughout this trip. This ‘dairy’ is all about my big journey to the other side of the world, sometimes it will be more detailed sometimes it will be less, I hope you enjoy reading it..
Hong Kong has been amazing, if you want to visit a real big city, this is the place to go. it's and awesome city with hugh skyscrapers but also with a lot of green in it. When I first arrived the Chinese locals seemed kind of curt, but now I can concluded that they are just direct, and the ones I got to know were actually very nice. The British influence is very obvious, almost everybody is bilingual and even for example all street names are in English. HK is also variable like one would expect there are poor and rich people, poor people would go shopping at some street market where pieces of meat hang just in the sun, and the smell sometimes hmm, it just can’t be good, though on the
other hand, if u like to shop there are also a lot of huge malls and for example Prada/Armani/H&M:D shops and such even with bouncers and rows queued up in front of them. So I experienced many different sights of HK in these 5 days, here are some things I did/visited, I went to this small island where I had good time hiking and swimming/relaxing at the beach with some people I met on CS (
http://www.couchsurfing.org/home) (if you want to get to know new people/like to travel that’s the site you should visit, I am planning on using it a lot more). I also went to ‘the peak’, where you can make amazing pictures of HK and its skyscrapers. I went to see some religious sights as well, visiting the big Buddha and the Po Lin Monastry, quit interesting to see how all kinds of different people believe in it and are so respectfull no matter how they look like or whatever.. Geologist as I am, I also had to make some nice pictures of mountains:P The ‘symphony of lights’ was something I had to visit, since that’s what all tourists do, though after the endshow of for example the
defqon.1 festival this lightshow is not that amazing, but you know, if you are around.. if so, there is also the avenue of the stars, displaying stars of famous people like jet li and bruce li (the other ones I really didn’t hear of like ever before:P). The Botanic garden and HK park also is nice, expescially to chill out. One day I went to visit Stanley and its market and plaza and the Repulse Bay area. This market was typical close packed with all kinds of stuff, not really my thing, where the plaza had all kinds of different, more expensive shops. The Repulse bay is famous because of its history concerning pirates and stuff, it has a great beach but the funny thing is, there almost no chine people here
and on every beach actually, till the sun is going down, in fact if they are walking around in the sun, many of them are using umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun. One explanation I heard is that it’s still because of the rich=white/poor=tanned thing but a local girl whom I met for a drink told me it was about freckles or smth. Anyway meeting this local
people was fun and I had a good time seeing the party districts of HK as well, to bad I just did it last night, and since I had to wake at 5 am, I couldn’t enjoy too much of it. After all I didn’t sleep so much but maybe that will help with a possible jetlag, we will see about that😉 I enjoyed different kinds of Chinese food and I have to say I liked it, though I’d prefer to mix it up with the kinds of food I know instead of just eating it. They don’t know babi pangang though, at least not the ones I asked:P A notbale thing where the dutchies could learn from is that toilets are for free everywhere. One thing i had to get used to is the climate, its really hot and humid, luckily there is airco everywhere.. aw and I watched some HK football as well, pretty similar to what our futsal, but with bigger teams, and they don't really know how to use the point of their shoes to shoot:P
Anyway after all this has been a first ‘week’ full of exciting things with way more awesome things to
come, thanks to some local people and the my friend Vince from Cairns I had an awesome time in HK.
I’m out,
Cheers
Ps
voor de engels onkundigen een korte samenvatting/aanvulling whatever😉 HK is vet, als je ooit naar een dikke stad wil, HK is de place to be.. HK heeft veel bezienswaardigheden, als in een indrukwekkend skyline (maar ook veel groen in de stad) religieuze plaatsen, speciale area's om te shoppen als in 'de vis area' de 'kleding area' etc. maar je hebt er ook hele grote winkelcentra met bijvoorbeeld 6 verdiepingen met verschillende winkels, meestal duurdere maar ook de H&M is gespot:D
ik heb verschillende mensen ontmoet zowel lokale als mede-reizigers, dus dat is erg leuk. Het eten is anders dan bij de chinees in nederland, iig wel daar waar ik gegeten heb, maar dik prima, al denk ik wel dat je het zat word.. het met stokjes eten ging wel oke eigenlijk. ik moet zeggen chinezen zijn geen nette eters:P gesmak en geboer werd meerdere malen waargenomen:P
het klimaat is iets waar je aan moet wennen, hier wil je wel in schaduw lopen als dat even kan, het is
erg warm maar ook vochtig, maar ze hebben overal airco dus het is prima uit te houden en reizen doe je vooral onder de grond of in een bus ook met airco dus.. anyway ik ga stoppen, en door de security.. op naar sydney laterzz
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