Finally arrived in Hong Kong today, feels like I have been waiting an eternity for this trip. It is like nothing I have seen before, a melting pot of cultures, walking around I was on sensory overload! Seems like old and new are haphazardly crammed into any available space. There are trendy bars beside tenement housing, old fashioned nail bars over classy restaurants. I am staying in a really trendy part of town where all the "Filths (failed in London Try Hong Kong)" live. To get there you have to travel up the escalator....not a bad way to get up the hill! Daily traffic exceeds 55,000 people, its a brilliant way of moving lots of people fast! Did some touristy stuff like get the Star Ferry to Kowloon and walk Hong Kong's equivalent of the Hollywood
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