Hong Kong Travel Blogs - Page 10

hey...so i've left the eternal city and now i am in Asia...in Hong Kong...(for those of you that don't know where that is...it's a city in the SE coast of China...used to be a british colony and was returned to China when it's 100 yr old lease expired). Here are a few highlights of the last 5…

some random pics from that trip

So, we are in Hong Kong. Ben flew out of Sydney last night and I flew out this morning. We used air miles and were told that the flight was full, so we couldn't fly out together. TURNS OUT, both our flights were half empty and everyone had enough room for each person to have 2 seats to themselves..…

So I'm at the Hong Kong airport right now, getting ready to board a plane to Beijing where I'll start the GAP adventure tour.  I am PUMPED to start the journey, and can't wait to get there.... It'll be a quick (hopefully.....) 3 hour flight to Beijing, and we'll head to the hotel to check in, …

Completely broke, sick with pneumonia, and still suffering unusual shock-like symptoms, numbness and panic attacks, I made my way to Hong Kong to take stock of my situation and recuperate.  In the hospital in HK, I got plenty of conflicting advice - either nothing to worry about or someth…

Went to Hong Kong to renew my visa for Taiwan.  Landing visa is Taiwan can not be used to get an ARC card.  So I flew out of Taipei to Hong Kong on a 747!  Believe it or not this was my first time on a 747,  the flight was only an hour though so there was no reason to go exp…

    Got back to HK by train. Stayed at 4 stars hotel in Djim sa jui, a city which has many interesting places. But that was a shopping trip so we did not have a chance to visit temples or interesting places but shops. We were at Nathan shoppin street, the best shopping ar…

Time to go home. Exhausted but happy. Thanks my travel buddies, Kerrie, Shirley and Cheung Yan. I am so glad that we can make our " Blow water" talk real. Thanks for enduring any delay of the trip becoz of my health and problems. Thanks Shirley for always looking at the map for us. Thanks Kerri…

So, Hong Kong.  It's fucking great...dynamic, dirty, packed with people...everything I'd want a big foreign city to be.  It's kind of like how I imagined Korea would be before I got there.  The whole place feels kind of closed-in.  Not claustrophobic exactly, but almost.  S…

I just wanted to post a couple of pic's that I took at night in Hong Kong. I used my digi and the tripod that Mario26 gave me. Hope you enjoy

DAY 1 After fucking around in the morning and getting crammed in a minibus we got to Bangkoks airport and did our best to not look in any shops, just incase we got accused of stealing and arrested. The flight to Hong Kong was awful, it was pretty much 3 hours of turbulence, then I remembered the …

Short version of my HK trip Mar 2007 is that it came from my company’s generous incentive program. Met up with my brother Pat who was then serving for the Navy and whose ship, USS Ronald Reagan was docked nearby. Highlight of my trip had been a tour of the ship and HK tours organized by the US Na…

Ive been drawn to Hong Kong ever since I watched the handover on TV back in 1997. Finally arriving on my first visit in 2002 as a young naive 18 year old I wasnt quite prepared for what I had arrived too. Hong Kong literally does not stop, not even for a young man lost in the urban jungle. At first…

     We stayed at the Regal Kowloon. Good food at the resaurant there at the hotel. We took a Grey Line bus tour of the City. The guide was very funny but watch out for the tours as ours included a lesson on pearls and a jewlery shop. It caught our attention pretty quick when we…

Ok, so we didn't exactly have the same luck we did as when we were heading for Shanghai.  The journey was just as long, but this time we did end up having to pay the regular fare, for yet again another SOLD-OUT train.  Yep, yet again!!  So obviously that meant no seats for us on a…