I arrived in Hong Kong at 8:30 AM after around 4 hours of sleep the night before. Nevertheless, I was determined to make the most of my first day here... After getting off the airport shuttle bus (a bargain at 140 HKD), I checked into the Conrad Hilton. Thanks to my Diamond status, I got upgraded to a room the executive floor - 58 stories above the streets below! The room itself is maybe only slightly above average, but the view of the mountainside is spectacular. Moving around my part of Hong Kong Island is an adventure in navigation skills. It requires going up and down staircases and escalators, crossing over skybridges, tunneling through underground passages (or subways as they're called), and crossing streets with rapidly beeping audible traffic lights. Street signs are infrequent, but if
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