The NeckAche City
Well we are in Hong Kong now!
As some of you might know Hong Kong is a very tall and a very steep city. We are getting a neckache just from trying to find a road crossing.
Yesterday we spent stroling around Hong Kong island. We took the peak tram to the peak. The hill is soo steep that if Nina didn't laugh she would have started crying. The tram is one piece of great engineering. From the peak you can see the great Hong Kong harbour - the rest we couldn't see as it was bit cloudy.
It was great taking the commuter escalators up to SOHO (south of Hollywood Rd) and from there we went down to the Man Mo Temple. They love their incense sticks over here. You couldn't even see inside the Temple from all the incense smoke but they also has some wicked big spiral incese hanging from the ceiling.
After that we went to ginseng and bird's nests market. Man oh man do they have some weird stuff there ( bird's nest are made of half digested seaweed and bird's spit used to make the nests), they also had all sorts of sea animal parts and plants but we were too scared to find out what they were.
In the evening we took the ferry over to Kowloon for a spectacular view of HK skyline. All for the extortianate price of 20p. We really dig the ferry!!
Thanks Anne for the helpful tip about picking up the HK walks booklet at the airport.
Today we are on the Kowloon's side of the walking tour.
In Kowloon especially we can see the difference between the quiet, light, clean side of Japan and noisy, busy, smelly, crowded side of HK. But the city is charming in it's own way anyway.
We are off to New Zealand tomorrow evening so it will be time for something completely different.
As some of you might know Hong Kong is a very tall and a very steep city. We are getting a neckache just from trying to find a road crossing.
Yesterday we spent stroling around Hong Kong island. We took the peak tram to the peak. The hill is soo steep that if Nina didn't laugh she would have started crying. The tram is one piece of great engineering. From the peak you can see the great Hong Kong harbour - the rest we couldn't see as it was bit cloudy.
It was great taking the commuter escalators up to SOHO (south of Hollywood Rd) and from there we went down to the Man Mo Temple. They love their incense sticks over here. You couldn't even see inside the Temple from all the incense smoke but they also has some wicked big spiral incese hanging from the ceiling.
After that we went to ginseng and bird's nests market. Man oh man do they have some weird stuff there ( bird's nest are made of half digested seaweed and bird's spit used to make the nests), they also had all sorts of sea animal parts and plants but we were too scared to find out what they were.
In the evening we took the ferry over to Kowloon for a spectacular view of HK skyline. All for the extortianate price of 20p. We really dig the ferry!!
Thanks Anne for the helpful tip about picking up the HK walks booklet at the airport.
Today we are on the Kowloon's side of the walking tour.
In Kowloon especially we can see the difference between the quiet, light, clean side of Japan and noisy, busy, smelly, crowded side of HK. But the city is charming in it's own way anyway.
We are off to New Zealand tomorrow evening so it will be time for something completely different.
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