Leaving Hong Kong

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(so so late updating this. Does it matter? I think not)

Anyway, so left Hong Kong, and caught the 9pm flight onwards to Auckland. Had to be out of the hostel by midday, so hours and hours spent in the park reading my book. Glad I went there, but not sure I'd want to go back.

When I arrived I got so so lost. Seriously, I walked around the same building about 3 times. But I finally arrived at the hostel. I'd heard loads of terrible things about Chung King mansions before I went, so I didnt go there. I went next door. Mirador Mansions is a massive building, with about a hundred different companies in there. The Garden Hostel turned out to be one of the nicer ones (and it was only about 6 GBP a night). On the same floor there is a minister missionary type-person, and we'd randomly find massive groups of people cooking on the stairs. Often come across older European men with much younger women coming down the stairs as well, so ick.

Aside from the going to the top of the hill on Hong Kong Island, seeing the Light Show, and going to the Art Museum didn't really do much touristy things. I walked around with the two other girls in the dorm (both very nice, one got very annoying by the end), and we found this local caff that did seaweed soup for 7 HKD. It's fairly easy to stereotype there, you can guess who the locals are, and who are the foreigners. I think we were the only non-locals there at all, apparently most tourists go to McDonalds. But one afternoon we'd gone there to get lunch (with an also very nice Dutch guy), and it started completely pissing down with rain. So we got some beers, and stayed there for the next 5 hours! It was awesome, just watching the world go by.

I never did make it to the thousand buddhas place though. Oh well, had a good time just randomly wandering through the city, and trying to find places with air-conditioning!

Next - Auckland

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Photos

Lluniau 021
Nice hotel that I walked past

Mirador Mansions
Where I actually stayed - I was on the 4th floor

The first dorm room!
It's not that messy

More nice people
We spent 5 hours at this cafe

Foggy!
The view from the boat from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island

View from the top of the hill
The bottom half is what we should see. The top half is what we could actually see

The Light Show
Watching the kind of boring (but free!) light show across the harbour

Comments

[Liz]

Update!!
Fab photos! Very impressed to finally see an entry! Keep us all updated and I'm very pleased to hear you escaped the mansions alive...we were far to scared to stay there! :)