Hong Kong

Goldfish for sale
Me at the bird market
Lots of local obviously don't care about these signs
Simon at the big buddha
Monk doing his thing at the buddha


Umm fresh veges at the teppanyaki restaurant
Looking down at Hong Kong from the top of the hill

Hotel hourly rate.... not nightly...
The 42nd floor of our hotel. Completely beautiful! Overlooked the whole of HK... there is no roof on it either!
The jade market

Leaving London at 9pm on Friday night after a full week at work, we both slept pretty well on the 12 hour flight to Hong Kong. Simon's best part of the trip he was looking forward to, was the aeroplane food, and oh yeah, he got right amongst that!

We arrived in Hong Kong on the Saturday night. After exploring our options on how to get into the city, we decided to take the "local way" and get a local bus. Forget the airport express train, or the shuttle bus we paid a 10th of the price and hung out with the locals. Arriving in the Mong Kok district we found our way to our hotel pretty easily.

We explored the markets of Hong Kong for the two days and I could have kept going I tell ya! They have so many markets selling all of that chinese stuff you see everywhere else in the world - only a quarter of the price. Ladies market, late night temple market, jade market, gold fish market, flower market, bird market... anything you can think of! The women selling were probably the most aggressive we have ever come across... once they see your English speaking, they think you are a millionaire and want your money!

On our last day in HK we followed our guide book on how to get to the "big buddha". It said to get a train to somewhere and then jump on a local bus. When we got on the bus, we were a bit confused because there were no foreigners and it was quite empty. Ummm... not sure what is going on here. We went up and down I don't know how many hills, the driver was going crazy and the lady next to us was "hoicking" in a plastic bag continuously - grose! When we arrived at the buddha there was hundreds of tourists around making there way to the top, so how did these guys get here? well our guide book isn't obviously up-to-date because there is a cable car from the city right to the top! We learnt our lesson and took this on the way home. Bottom line for you travellers, when something feels not quite right, it probably isn't :)