Montag, 27. Mai 2013
Hong Kong
highpeak, 06:38h
The next morning we enjoyed another breakfast in N'kitchen and headed for Lijiang airport.
Maggie had the same flight with us to Kunming, there she changed to another plane back to Shanghai (see you in a week!) and Markus and me went on for Hong Kong.
We arrived in the late afternoon, we had booked a hotel on Hong Kong Island and the location was pretty good: a bit up the hill but easy and cheap to reach by taxi either from Central or Wan Chai (name is "2 Mac Donnell"). We walked down from here to Wyndham road, one of the bar areas in Hong Kong and met my very good friends Ian and Gisi, an Australian couple which I know since many years from Shanghai and Beijing. We had some drinks and a good Italian dinner together, was really great to meet them here. Afterwards Markus and me had some beer in Lan Kwai Fong, party area just down from Wyndham road,
before getting prepared for the Champions League final between Bayern Muenchen and Borussia Dortmund. Game just started at 2.45 am local time,
but in Wanchai area the bars still have been packed with people. The day ended with a glorious victory of Bayern and happy and tired we went to bed around 5.30.
The next morning we made a slowly start, after getting up we took the bus to Stanley on the south side of Hong Kong island. I love this place and usually come here when I am staying in Hong Kong. There we met Christine with her husband Florian and the two girls, another old friend still from high school time in Garmisch. She is living in Hong Kong since a couple of years and usually we meet when I am around. We enjoyed the sea view with some beers
and afterwards took the bus to North Point with a short look to the specialities of the seafood market
and changed to the old tram railway which is running through Hong Kong Island.
We met Christine again for a typical Dim Sum dinner and afterwards took the star ferry to cross the harbor to Kowloon. Here they have currently the worlds biggest rubber duck (5 stories high!), a big photo shooting happening.
Also the view of the skyline of Hong Kong Island from here is really breathtaking, even if the weather was not too good.
We checked out temple street night market,
but honestly not really anything interesting there, the usual touri stuff. We took subway back to Hong Kong island and reached the hotel shortly before midnight to have a good sleep on our shared queen size bed.
Monday morning we woke up again in misty weather but at least no rain. Decided to go for a visit of famous IFC mall, one of the big and usual shopping malls in Hong Kong. As both of us are no shopping maniacs we kept the visit short and boarded a bus up to the peak. As further the bus drove up as less we could see and when we finally arrived, even the observation building was hardly to see in this misty fog.
Made a small walk and took the old cable car (now running since 125 years) down to Garden road, grabbed a quick lunch and already it was time to get our luggage from the hotel and take the bus which brought us from Wan Chai over the border to Shenzhen airport. From here we take our last flight to Guiling, Yangshuo and the rice terraces before our trip comes to an end and we will have to fly back to Shanghai.
Maggie had the same flight with us to Kunming, there she changed to another plane back to Shanghai (see you in a week!) and Markus and me went on for Hong Kong.
We arrived in the late afternoon, we had booked a hotel on Hong Kong Island and the location was pretty good: a bit up the hill but easy and cheap to reach by taxi either from Central or Wan Chai (name is "2 Mac Donnell"). We walked down from here to Wyndham road, one of the bar areas in Hong Kong and met my very good friends Ian and Gisi, an Australian couple which I know since many years from Shanghai and Beijing. We had some drinks and a good Italian dinner together, was really great to meet them here. Afterwards Markus and me had some beer in Lan Kwai Fong, party area just down from Wyndham road,
before getting prepared for the Champions League final between Bayern Muenchen and Borussia Dortmund. Game just started at 2.45 am local time,
but in Wanchai area the bars still have been packed with people. The day ended with a glorious victory of Bayern and happy and tired we went to bed around 5.30.
The next morning we made a slowly start, after getting up we took the bus to Stanley on the south side of Hong Kong island. I love this place and usually come here when I am staying in Hong Kong. There we met Christine with her husband Florian and the two girls, another old friend still from high school time in Garmisch. She is living in Hong Kong since a couple of years and usually we meet when I am around. We enjoyed the sea view with some beers
and afterwards took the bus to North Point with a short look to the specialities of the seafood market
and changed to the old tram railway which is running through Hong Kong Island.
We met Christine again for a typical Dim Sum dinner and afterwards took the star ferry to cross the harbor to Kowloon. Here they have currently the worlds biggest rubber duck (5 stories high!), a big photo shooting happening.
Also the view of the skyline of Hong Kong Island from here is really breathtaking, even if the weather was not too good.
We checked out temple street night market,
but honestly not really anything interesting there, the usual touri stuff. We took subway back to Hong Kong island and reached the hotel shortly before midnight to have a good sleep on our shared queen size bed.
Monday morning we woke up again in misty weather but at least no rain. Decided to go for a visit of famous IFC mall, one of the big and usual shopping malls in Hong Kong. As both of us are no shopping maniacs we kept the visit short and boarded a bus up to the peak. As further the bus drove up as less we could see and when we finally arrived, even the observation building was hardly to see in this misty fog.
Made a small walk and took the old cable car (now running since 125 years) down to Garden road, grabbed a quick lunch and already it was time to get our luggage from the hotel and take the bus which brought us from Wan Chai over the border to Shenzhen airport. From here we take our last flight to Guiling, Yangshuo and the rice terraces before our trip comes to an end and we will have to fly back to Shanghai.
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