Hi all!
I've got 15 minutes before I need to head for the bus to bangkok. It's been a great time in hong kong, and you should all make an effort to get here. It's just about the cleanest and easiest to navigate of cities this size, and the people have been fantastically friendly. Wednesday, I made a leisurely pace down to the Vietnamese consulate to drop $67 for my express visa service and now have passport and visa in hand for that leg of the trip. Ivan and I met up for real hong kong dim sum in a nice fancy place, then headed off with his workmate, Wade, to do some last shopping for his trip before he headed back to sydney. He was on a mission for a Bally bag knockoff for a friend, and I can now say that I have survived a couple of trips up creepy stairways to the real hong kong underground market - double doors, buzzers, a healthy fear of cops and all. I think I may avoid the crazy Aussies for the remainder of this trip ;)
After Ivan took off, Wade and another work pal, Ricky, and I wandered around in Mongkok awhile longer - seafood market, street stalls, etc. I tried tofu fa (flower tofu) which is soft tofu in a light syrup, tastes sort of like cold tea with honey. It was really good and authentic since there wasn't a word of english in the whole restraunt.
Yesterday, I recovered my passport and was hit on by a nice old (like 70-something) chinese man. He asked where I was from, if I was a tourist, where I was staying, might he come up to visit me. I laughed and politely said goodbye. It was cute. Wade and I wandered Hong Kong Island, up to a British cemetery with lots of markers from WWI and II (yay, my first cemetery on the trip!)I got several good shots, but my camera was dying. Fortunately it didn't totally die because on our way back to the downtown part of the island, we passes the hong kong Times Square where Jackie Chan was attending the premier of his new movie. So I saw Jackie Chan from about 30 feet away in Hong Kong! That was super cool. I'll post proof soon when I can get photos off my camera, as well as the cliff dangling shot from the peak. Off to Bangkok!
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First of all, I take great pride in being called a crazy Aussie and second of all, if I/we werent around, what would you have to blog about? At least this way you can say "when I was in Hong Kong, I did this and this and this" and it want be what every other HK tourist did as well.
I had a great time with you, it was really nice to have a fellow traveller along for the experience. Enjoy the rest of your journey and remember to try and many strange foods as you can (safely)
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