After 18 hours of travelling I was pretty beat and touch down in Hong Kong couldn't have been more welcome. Obviously the months’ worth of preparation before had endowed me with a plethora of knowledge on the local area and customs and so I knew exactly where I was going and what I was doing. Ah, but wait... no, that's right, not a Scooby-do. A quick investigation of the budget guide to SE Asia and I was taxi-bound (good backpacker fare) to Nathan Road, a bustling tourist trap in Kowloon, where people who live there still consider themselves to be 'Hèung Góng' and not 'main-landers'. My destination - Chunking Mansions, quite possibly the most dangerous place to stay in Kowloon (I learnt this after my stay there), rife with drugs and crime and not uncommon for
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