 | Out on a junk
2008-05-11, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: Gntravln | | Hi!
So today was my last full day in HK *sob*. We went out in a junk (like a yaght) for a friend's birthday. The champagne was flowing freely and it was all very colonial. We left HK Island, where ... |
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 | A dancing fool
2008-05-11, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: frankieboy | | Hong Kong
The first night I stayed at the legendary Chung King Mansions. Legendary because they are basically guest house slums. It was fine and safe but not the greatest place to stay.
Not sur... |
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 | Stanley Markets
2008-05-10, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: Gntravln | | Hi!
Today is a bit cloudy. I always start by talking about the weather don't I? Must be an English thing. Anyway nevermind, yes today is a bit cloudy but still pretty warm. We went to Stanley this ... |
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 | Kowloon
2008-05-09, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: Gntravln | | Hi everyone!
Today was another sweltering hot day and I spent almost all of it outside! I went to visit Kowloon today, just across the water from Hong Kong Island. I started by getting the bus down... |
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 | Lantau Island
2008-05-08, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: Gntravln | | Hi!
I am like boiling up here. It was so hot today but really clear which was great as I went over to Lantau Island to see the Tian Tan Buddah and Po Lin Monastery. I caught the bus in the morning ... |
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 | Here in Hong Kong
2008-05-07, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: Gntravln | | Hi everyone!
So I have arrived in Hong Kong! After an eigth hour flight (but with the best in-flight entertainment so far - TV on demand,whahoo!) we touched down in hot and humid Hong Kong. Driving... |
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 | The End for Hong Kong
2008-04-17, Kam Tin, Hong Kong. By: Kylee | | Well my time in Hong Kong has come to an end. I really enjoyed every minute that I spent there. Durning my time in that busy country God has really revealed a lot to me. He has made me more aware of... |
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| Week one
2008-04-08, Kam Tin, Hong Kong. By: Kylee | | So far I have been in Hong Kong for a week and already so much has happened. We have already been involved with some ministries. We wroked with an organization called Crossroads. They get free stuff... |
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 | Nothing to read here.
2008-03-11, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. By: ronnieed | | We didn’t do much. Late in the morning we headed in to Hong Kong, met up with Kellie and Dave for lunch then went to Kowloon shopping. The shopping trip was to be unsuccessful all that was purchased w... |
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| Markets and amazing foot massage
2008-03-10, Kowloon, Hong Kong. By: ronnieed | | Today we headed off to New Kowloon to see some sights that Ronnie had not seen before on her previous trip. First up we headed to a huge wooden nunnery which was quite cool as it had no nails and the... |
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 | The big lazy day of fun.
2008-03-09, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. By: ronnieed | | It seems to be a running theme but today was also going to be a little lazy. Half way through the morning we headed out for a coffee and to plan the remainder of the day. Many ideas were considered bu... |
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 | Rugby Rugby Rugby and three losses.
2008-03-08, Kowloon, Hong Kong. By: ronnieed | | Not a very busy morning by any standard in fact we’re not all that sure what we did. Just chilled out we think. Dave had his rugby final over on Kowloon and headed off late in the morning. The two of ... |
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 | Come on Hong Kong let’s have a look at you.
2008-03-06, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. By: ronnieed | | Day 1 in Hong Kong and we had exploring to do. Armed with the Top Ten guide book we ventured out of the house and headed to the ferry terminal. On the way we stopped to top up our T’octopus cards whic... |
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 | The Former Concessions
2008-03-08, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: mala | | The border between China and Macau must be the most congested in the world. Considering that the Portugese returned Macau to the Chinese in 1999, it also seems a bit unnecessary. People start lining u... |
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| 8 hours of flying later - Hong Kong!
2008-03-05, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. By: ronnieed | | Wednesday morning, off to the airport and on to Hong Kong. With a flight time of a little over 8 hours neither Ronnie or Edward were particularly excited about boarding the plane. Luckily we secured t... |
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| Hong Kong
2008-02-29, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: ld84 | | Ok, so its taken me practically a whole month to start a journal thingy but no worries, im here now. Had an amazing 3 weeks round China with my tour group. Started in Beijing which was absouletly free... |
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 | Hiking Dragon's Back
2008-01-30, Dragon's Back, Hong Kong. By: alfredo | | Dragon’s Back is a hiking trail in Hong Kong Island, as for me it was the second time to hike here, the first time it was on a Sunday and there were a lot of other hikers even people walking dogs. Thi... |
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 | Hong Kong Visit
2008-01-17, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: susans | | The poor weather seems to be following us as the locals told us that three days ago the weather changed from sunny to cold - but it has not mattered much as the Hotel Mandarin Oriental is excellent - ... |
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 | Xmas Period...
2007-12-24, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: smithy2006 | | 24th: Xmas eve arrived pretty quickly without me really noticing... Only in the supermarkets did you ever really get a feeling that xmas was arriving but to celebrate the period i treated myself to a ... |
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 | Hong Kong Baby...
2007-12-22, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: smithy2006 | | 21st... Spent the whole day missioning to Hong Kong... wasn't expecting it to be so much of a mission with it being a Chinese SAR now. arrived around 6 iin the evening to find the two hostel/block of ... |
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 | Nihow
2007-11-12, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: shannyn | | Hong Kong was my first stopover.
Flying with airlines other than jetstar kicks ass because there seems to be an unlimited supply of free booze, tasty vegan food and alright T.V type entertainment.... |
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 | Hong Kong
2007-10-28, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: lou | | The overnite train was fine and we didnt arrive into "Shenzhen" until lunchtime. This was were we had to cross the border on foot from China into HongKong. The crossing went fine. From there we cau... |
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 | The Heart Grows Fonder!!!
2007-09-27, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: regnmanda | | Our hostel is actually pretty relaxing. It is quite small but nicely kept, which allows for a goodnights sleep, which was much needed after the busy first day. The second day started with "breakfast... |
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 | Annnnddd We're OFF!!!!
2007-09-26, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: regnmanda | | After our leg spasms from the longest plane ride of our lives we finally made it to Hong Kong after a wee lil' visit to Anchorage, Alaska. Alaska by the way seems to be stuck back in time with its 80... |
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 | Last day :(
2007-09-27, Central, the peak, Hong Kong. By: franandtom | | Well we were supposed to go to Lantau island today to see the huge budda statue, but when we found out it takes 2 hours to get there by bus, ferry and another bus, and after the insane day we had yest... |
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| Just about the whole of Hong Kong!
2007-09-26, Kowloon, Central, Hong Kong. By: franandtom | | This day has been by far the craziest! We were booked onto a pink dolphin spotting tour that was departing from Kowloon at 9am, so decided we needed to leave at 7.45 as the journey is about an hour. S... |
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 | Ocean park and the mid-Autumn festival
2007-09-25, Ocean park, Hong Kong. By: franandtom | | Today we went to ocean park as planned, even though it was lashing it down again! It did get better though and we saw our first glimpse of sunshine :D Ocean Park was brilliant, we saw the pandas, shar... |
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| first day in HK
2007-09-24, Stanley, Hong Kong. By: franandtom | | Well we've arrived in Hong Kong! For 3 weeks before we got here, the weather had been gorgeous and hot and sunny, so naturally when we arrived there was a typhoon warning!! (explains the 12 hours of t... |
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 | homeward bound
2007-09-19, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: kjkerr | | I have had my suspicions confirmed - I DO NOT LIKE HUMIDITY - Admittedly i have gotten slightly more accustomed to it in the 2 and a half days , in that i dont have to wave a fan in my face the entire... |
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 | Tired Little Camper?
2007-09-16, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: dilleybug | | I went to the 10,000 buddha monestary today. There were all these golden painted buddhas on the way up - their little buddha heads gleaming in the sun! i took a picture mocking one - i had to wait unt... |
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 | Put on your Big Girl Panties
2007-09-15, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: dilleybug | | Well yesterday was Quite the BIG day! I took a ferry to Lantau Island and then a freaky bus to the top of the mountian where there is the laragest bronze buddha in the world and a monestary. I was a... |
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 | R&R Day
2007-09-13, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: dilleybug | | Well, today was a relaxing day for me. i decided to take the day off of walking so so so much. I went to the Museum of Tea - and YES it IS as exciting as it sounds. :) Then there was a walk through ... |
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 | Quickie
2007-09-12, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: dilleybug | | Unfortunately, i can't upload pictures from this terminal but which is a shame because some of the wildlife i saw today was incredible. Butterflies 6 inches in width and Bright Red Scarlet birds and ... |
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 | Just passin' time
2007-09-11, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: dilleybug | | Well, I have made it to my new hostel which - i am pleased to say - is so much better than the other 'hostel'. You have to go through three locks to get to the room, so that makes me feel WAY safer ... |
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 | I think I got the Black Lung Pop
2007-09-10, Kowloon, Hong Kong. By: dilleybug | | Okay, so I slept a bit better this afternoon. I took a nap in my one room cell - it was probably midnight my home time, that probably helped. So Hong Kong is ENORMOUS! There are so so so many people... |
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 | Hong Kong: First Impressions
2007-08-22, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. By: laowai | | First Impression: Wow.
Let me preface with I've seen nothing yet. After traveling all day yesterday (3.5 hour bus ride & 2.5 hour flight) I was pretty exhausted when I arrived so I got some dinner... |
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 | All good things come to an end!
2007-08-02, Kowloon, Hong Kong. By: valminx | | Well our last full day here so we decided to visit Hong Kong island again. They have apparently the largest escalator in the world (which is actualy lots of smaller ones together) Now this escalator w... |
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| Medicinal?
2007-08-01, Kowloon, Hong Kong. By: valminx | | Ok, another for you... spotted on a Kleenex dispenser in a public toilet:
"Bacterial Exposure Exceeds Limit on Special Free Pack!!!"
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| Super Lucky Bonus Item!
2007-08-01, Kowloon, Hong Kong. By: valminx | | Well, another day, another adventure - thats the pirate moto, and today proved no exception. We took ourselves off to Ocean Park yesterday. Yeah I know it's very touristy and a little out of character... |
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 | Minx is off the menu...
2007-07-29, Hong Kong, Hong Kong. By: valminx | | Ok...Im slightly peeved! We've been over a week in deepest darkest Hong Kong, exposing ourselves to all sorts of outdoor tomfoolery and chickanery, and guess what? I've not got a single bite off a wee... |
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