Jo's Travels

We LOVED Hong Kong! It was a nice change to experience order and see a Starbucks for the first time in a while. We were very impressed with Hong Kong and the amazing public transport system where you can get anywhere..fast (under and above ground)! This time double decker buses and double decker trams ruled the streets.

It might be cement city but the buildings all have character and every night at 8pm there is a light show to music. You watch the skyline from the Kowloon side over the water and all the lights on the huge skyscrapers change colour and move up and down and sideways like a mexican wave effect all to music. I'm glad we experienced that.

And its a shopping paradise, we got lost a couple of times even with a map (and we were pretty good at navigating by this stage).. but its because the pedistrian over and under passes spit you out into more shopping malls and finding your way out without trying on clothes was not easy. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! Anyway, we did buy a few things but didn't go as crazy as we'd like because of our 20kg limits.

We couldn't believe after two and half weeks of eating noodles in Vietnam served up by bare hands, and eating out of bowls that had been washed (or should I say rinsed) in a bucket of cold water that we didn't get sick ..not even a little off... but in Hong Kong after Mcdonalds on Nathan Road it was not pretty. Thank god for Imodiem, but our tour to China was not worth it (tip - Guangzhou day tours are extremely boring - spend your time visiting Macau instead). We were freezing! It was definately the coldest day we've put in for a long time. Anyway our tour was full of Aussies, which was good, considering we haven't done many tours with other travellers and everyone was very nice with good senses of humour, and all were a bit disapppointed with the day, but it was all worth it as we ventured out that night for dinner at the 'Joyful Peach' with two older Italian brothers for some duck.

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