A few hours after arriving at my Auntie and Uncle's apartment, they took us up onto the roof of their building to see Hong Kong at night, it was a totally amazing view. My auntie insisted that we were lucky to see it so clear, as it was usually misty, but we thought she was exaggerating.
Our first day started out with arranging our Chinese visas, which took us to the Wan Chi area. Where we had a look around the harbour area and some of the shops.
In the evening Auntie Valerie took us to their football club to watch my cousin Tom play football. He was very good and scored two goals in their 5-1 victory.
The next day we made our way to central Hong Kong to explore the area, however it was more office buildings and shops than anything to see. So we jumped on the harbour circular ferry and spent an hour seeing Hong Kong from the water. On the ferry we were approached by a local artist who gave us a Chinese painting of our names (for free).
On our third day we had planned to go to the botanical gardens, unfortunately as soon as we had made it down the driveway towards the bus it started raining. Hoping and praying it was only a shower we continued on, caught the bus and then the tram but when we arrived at Central it was raining more than ever, so we abandoned the gardens and caught the tram back again.
Not wanting to give up on the whole day, we bought a cheap umbrella from the 7eleven and walked around the Causeway Bay area and got some lunch in a very Cantonese restaurant (Cantonese food isn't that great).
Follow the disaster of the previous day we opted for an indoor option, so we ventured over to the mainland of Kowloon and visited the space museum. The space museum was surprising good with lots of excellent displays and some cool interactive exhibits to have a go on.
After we had finished at the museum we made our way down to the Temple Street night market. We had fun bargaining in the market for a few small nik-naks for the family back home and for Samantha.
2 comments:
Hey your next tour is fab! Just to warn you the washing in Xi'an is VERY expensive it cost us around 210 yuan! Be warned as they charge by the piece not by weight! We had a guy called Hanif who was a crazy wodka drinking Indian but let us know who you have as it may be newbe Ben who was training on one of our tours and is lovely! You'll love the cruise its pure luxury and pay the ladies at the rice paddies to carry your bags you really will regret it if you don't! Have a fantastic time.
Bet Sam's not so chuffed about flying to Phuket after the plane that crashed on landing there killing 2/3 of the passengers! Oh well Air China to look forwards too (its really not that bad?!).
P.s we've finally finished our blog today!
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