Tuesday 13 September 2011

Greetings from Hong Kong

Well, Hong Kong is hot hot hot!
We have managed to see a pretty good chunk of the city for only having been here one day so far. Started the day yesterday walking the length of Nathan Rd to find a tailor for Logan to have some suits made. Finally made it to the one we were looking for after being pulled into half a dozen other tailors along the way. 2 suits are on there way to us tonight ready for the cruise.
We then took in some of the city life finding some fascinating things along the way....apparently there are no limits to what you can dry and sell in this place including shrimps, mussels and some odd looking creatures which we haven't figured out - maybe bats? Photos to come for this one!
Sussed out the subway and buses and after a fair bit of waling in circles on Hong Kong Island finally found our way to Stanley. The public transport over here is crazy - you even have to get on an underground at the airport to get from the plane to immigration. All of the buses and trams are double decker - so that made for an interesting journey down the island to Stanley.....like taking the road to Coromandel on a double decker bus!
Stanley markets were a dissapointment - a lot more expensive than the shops on Nathan Rd, but we ended up having a lovely dinner and drinks on the waterfront which was away from the hussle and bustle of the city - much more of a resort feeling. The locals flock to the beach down there however they can, and they even have huge areas surrounded by concrete where they have premade firepits every 2 metres to cook food on and roast marshmallows. These areas were absolutley packed in the evening!
We can't get over the lack of OSH over here - or non existence, there scaffolding on buildings (and we are talking 30 storey sky scrapers) is made purely of bamboo! It is everywhere, even in the flasher areas, and piles of it on the side of the road ready to be erected.
We have taken notice Grant that there really are no flys here - even on the dried seafood and fresh meat sitting on the roadside we only managed to spot one.
Can't get over how clean it is. We were expecting it to be a little more like Bangkok, but there are huge signs everywhere saying you will get fines for littering, so the streets are really clean. It is really pretty at night all of the buildings have special ligts for show, and the main street is just neon everywhere.
Disneyland was fun, but not as good as the one in LA. The only really good ride was Space Mountain, all the rest were pretty tame. We did go into a 4D show which was really cool - Disney of course with Donald Duck, and they did the normal animated 3D movie, but whenwater came towards you, they sprayed you lightly with water, when as apple pie went across the screen you could smell apple pie, and when you were riding on the magic carpet they had a breeze through the cinema. It was very well done, and they even used the surround sound differently by having a speaker in the back of every seat and making the sound come from different areas in the cinema depending on what seat you were sitting in. Another long flight awaits us tomorrow so we will update when we get to Germany.

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