Hong Kong Intro!

Yesterday - 18 March:
Wow!  What a nice city!  We walked to one of the piers and walked around the shops to kill time before our massage.  We needed to ease our 'airplane' body feeling!  We then walked back to the hotel and each had a massage.  Wonderful!

We then took a taxi to catch the Victoria Peak Tram - acutally a funicular railway.  We took the tram up to Victoria Peak for a view of the whole of Hong Kong.  Unfortunately, the weather was quite hazy so we couldn't see that much.  We then took a walk around the Peak which was quite nice.  The haze was more at the ground level and not at the higher level.  We had lunch at the top and then took the tram back down the mountain.

Today - 19 March:
Today we went to the other pier and took the ferry over to Kowloon.  It was still hazy so we couldn't get any good pictures of the harbor and skyline.

We went into the Hong Kong Museum of Art and then walked alon the Avenue of the Stars.  This is a walkway along the water that pays tribute to the Chinese stars of the silver screen.  There was a 2 meter tall statue of Bruce Lee along with a couple of Bruce Lee souvenir shops.

We then took a walking tour along Nathan Street with many more Rolex shops than 7-Eleven shops and that says quite a bit because there is a 7-Eleven on just about every corner!!

We then had lunch at the Peninsula Hotel - one of the oldest hotels in Hong Kong.  It was very nice.

We then took the public subway to the northern part of the city and walked around the Flower Market.  We then took a wrong turn looking for the Goldfish Market and ended up in a huge open air market.  I kept looking under dishes and in clothes to see if they were "Made in China".  It was all written in Chinese so I couldn't really tell.

We are now waiting for Mike & Nina to arrive so that we can go for dinner.

Tomorrow we are off to Vietnam!

Ciao,
Deb & Karel