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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. To be updated

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By Graz Doz Trez
November 3rd 2009

Day Two - Hong Kong - Admiral and Causeway Bay Asia » Hong Kong » Lantau Island

SDC10515

Day 2 in Hong Kong, After awaking at 06:55 - put that down to time difference not keeness! - I had a great cup of coffee, attempted to go back to bed but dad started talking to me, d'oh! I faffed around a bit for a few hours then decided to get into gear and start to work on getting visas for places down the line. I headed for the Philippean consulate in Admiral. I packed my satchel/man bag - oh which reminds me, in "The Hangover", my favorite part is when Alan gets abuse for a manpurse, and he tells [View Full Entry]

By Graz Doz Trez
November 2nd 2009

Day One - UK and Hong Kong - Arriving. Asia » Hong Kong » Lantau Island

Day one. "and on the first day the lord said; "Let their be light"... and there was." This has been a very long day so far, but not for any bad reasons. It started as Saturday 31st of October, and will run untill tonight, Monday 2nd November. Saturday night was spent celebrating my leaving England to go travelling for 10 months, the night itself was good fun, but seeminly uneventful, which is probably a good thing. And, although we returned to my flat at 04:00ish, that wasn't the end of the day. I had to finalise my bag, and pack it [View Full Entry]

By imo hall
November 1st 2009

Hong Kong Asia » Hong Kong

Street in Hong Kong

We arrived at our hotel in Hong Kong at around 3pm- our train had been delayed and it took a bit of time to get everyone through customs and make our way to our hotel. In the afternoon we just had a walk around as we didn't have that much time before all meeting for our farewell dinner (this was the last night of the actual tour) Our last dinner was great and we all sat round a big table on the street and ate our favourite Chinese food- we'd eaten egg fried rice pretty much every night but our favourites [View Full Entry]

By Stamp Collecting
November 1st 2009

Escape from Wuhan and eventually China Asia » China » Tibet » Everest

The view from the Peak

Well, we made a snap decision to leave Wuhan. It was pricey but a flight to Hong Kong got us out of the nuthouse that was the Chinese holiday. Hong Kong is great, everything is in English! Slick, but budget busting, transport from the airport to the centre of HK Island and Jon was there to show us to our appartment. Once he had left us we started to find the fridge was full (including a packet of chocolate caramel digestives!), the bathrooms kitted out with all the toiletries you could ever want, however the hot water had been switched off. [View Full Entry]

By Monkey and Bear
November 1st 2009

We are in Hong Kong again Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon

Dear friends, This time the text is in Dutch only, sorry for the inconvenience. Monkey and Bear Lieve vrienden en vriendinnen, Niet echt een travelblog, maar wij willen jullie laten weten dat wij goed en veilig in Hong Kong zijn aangekomen. Onze reis is volledig volgens schema verlopen, hoewel China Airlines niet helemaal de juiste informatie heeft verstrekt. Bij het boeken via internet wordt de indruk gewekt dat de vlucht Amsterdam - Taipei rechtstreeks gaat en dan vervolgens met een overstap naar Hong Kong. Niets is minder waar. Vanuit Amsterdam nog steeds eerst naar Bang [View Full Entry]

By foxyroxy
November 1st 2009

Two Months in Hong Kong Asia » Hong Kong » Hong Kong Island

Big Buddha

Hello! So this is month #2 in Hong Kong. Time really flies, I can't believe it. This past month has been a lot of fun. I have been playing tourist, visiting all the attractions and seeing all the sights. There's always something new to do in Hong Kong!Life is starting to fall into place here. Work is going well. I teach kids half the time and adults half the time. And every single one of my students is great. One of my students, Tanya from Beijing, has been particularly great. Since I had to move out of my apartment in Wan [View Full Entry]

By MG1666
November 1st 2009

Day 8 - last day Hong Kong Asia » Hong Kong » Hong Kong Island

The mid level escalator

This is our last day. This morning we headed off over to HK Island to use the mid level escalators, which we are told, climb a mile from the bottom at Central to maybe half way up the mountain. The escalator serves all the people living from those levels who live in the immediate densely populated areas. Otherwise the local streets are crosshatched all the way, so access is Ok if you have transport or use a bus. Each escalator is of normal length, it is just a matter of swapping onto the next climbing escalator. They run down to about [View Full Entry]

By MG1666
October 31st 2009

Day 7 (morning) - Hong kong Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon

Echo Photo& Audio

This morning we visited the HK Museum of Science. I imagine it’s similar to the Melb Science Museum that I haven’t yet visited. So here, and maybe unusually, we saw the dinosaur exhibit for specimens taken from Lufeng in Yunnan province. It contained a few skeletons and a film - the most important aspect of this is that it’s supposed to be one of the biggest dinosaur finds in the world, which something I never knew. The film showed that the Chinese have made a full sized roof, maybe the size of a football field, over part of the site for [View Full Entry]

By MG1666
October 31st 2009

Day 7 (afternnoon and night) Hong Kong Asia » Hong Kong » Kowloon

Sham Shui Po market

After a short break, we caught the subway to the local market at Sham Shui Po in the New Territories. On arriving we were right in the middle of a local market - this time there were no Europeans, no hawkers, no “you want imitation watch” and no “you want new suit sir” and you could shop without even being pestered by the shop owners. We both found this market more relaxful than Temple St. We got some good buys as regards things not so far seen in the earlier tourist markets that we went to. Off one of its streets [View Full Entry]

By Pete Matt Jones
October 31st 2009

im off for a 6month tour of asia starting in HK Asia » Hong Kong » Hong Kong Island

Hey, In late october sometime i will be flying to HK and then touring asia and oz, i have no idea what im doing, so it would be good to see if anyone is going that way too! Aloha! [View Full Entry]

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