Blogs from Hong Kong, Asia - page 351

We arrived safely in Hong Kong after 19 hours on the plane. Somewhere along the way, we lost December 30th! Despite our large amounts of luggage, everything arrived and we were quickly transported to our hotel. It was really strange to see poinsettias growing in the same pots as palm trees and Christmas trees basking in 20 degree sun! After an afternoon snooze to try to get through the jet lag, New Year's Eve consisted of shopping on Canton Road (new video camera!), walking through Kowloon Park (there is green grass in Hong Kong!) and the Star Ferry countdown cruise on the harbour. The lights are absolutely incredible - whole office towers decked out in animated light shows. Despite the millions of people gathered along the harbour's edge for the celebrations, we managed to make our ... read more

We had decided that getting the train to the airport was a good idea as we were pleased with previous journeys. This train journey was a little different. We waited on the platform for the train which was only 10 minutes late, which was fine as we had several hours to spare. There was lots of people but that was Ok as it was a terminal station so the train would be empty. What we didn't count on was that everyone including ourselves had third class tickets. We got onto a second class coach & moved down the train to the last third class carriage which was already full & we just managed to squeeze into a space in the the aisle. Although an express train it seemed to stop at every rinky dink station & ... read more

We are in hong kong now..and gonna spend christmas here :) spent first two days staying in a typical hongkong hotel..small, cramped n very expensive but in the heart of town..in tsim sha tsui...a few steps away from the harbour and also the mtr.. moving on, we went to disneyland and it was rather nice..tomorrow we would be going to visit disneyland...to relive the magic and also fantasy... okay..take a look at the pix!!... read more

Well, weve been in a hong kong a few more weeks now and are having a good time. Throughout the weeks we have ticked off most off the major sights; Victoria Peak, Central, Causeway Bay, Kowloon, and seen some culrutal highlights such as the Art and Space museums, the WTO protests, and the Honk Kong Philharmonic Ochestra featuring a good violin soloist Renaud Capucon. Sportswise, we caught the National Hong Kong Sevens where the top local teams fought out, and yesterday I ran the Hong Kong King of the Hills Half Marathon, which was very hilly (cumulative altitude change of 2500m) and very hard! Merry Christmas All!!... read more

After a few days in Singapore we flew into Hong Kong. It was relatively cold there (15-17degrees!!), especially after being in Malaysia and Singapore. We even had to wear jumpers the whole time. In Hong Kong they really go to town with the Christmas lights. This and the colder weather made it seemed a bit more like Christmas for us. Our first day was spent at the newly opened Disneyland Hong Kong!!! It's the smallest of the Disney parks but it's brand new and so much cleaner than EuroDisney. One thing about the Hong Kong and Chinese people is that they really love taking pictures. You couldn't walk anywhere in the park with out stepping into someone elses photo. There were all of the usual Disney shows to visit but one of them had Cantonese speaking ... read more