We’ve been in Hong Kong now for about 2 and a half days and we’ve already seen and done so much. I’m only going to talk about our first day here (I will be a little behind throughout I imagine).

We have gotten our bearings, figured out how to use the MTR trains and have eaten with locals already, so feel like we’re winning!

So what do we think of Hong Kong?

Simon says (rather poetically) ‘It’s an assault on the senses’

What he means, and I completely agree, is that when you first get to Hong Kong the first things that went through both of our minds was:

1. Oh… wow… this is a little muggy.
2. Err… What’s that smell? I’m not sure if it’s a good or bad smell…
3. Ok… muggy was an understatement… i’m dripping
4. Look at all those people on their phones!
5. Are they all playing pokemon go?
6. Look at that… and that… Oh wait look over here

We love it here. There’s so much to see and do. The city is such a lovely mix of metropolitan life and beautiful coastal scenary and I can really see why so many people were raving about it to us.

What have we been up to?

So on our arrival day, we checked in (after trying to find our hostel for a while… bit stressful) got ourselves settled and headed straight out to Tsim Shall Tsui Promenade where we saw the avenue of the stars. Simon pretended to be a kung full master and we learnt that Jackie Chan had pretty large hands. We then spent a while admiring the skyscrapers on Hong Kong Island.

 

Next was food. We’re on quite a tight budget so the cheaper the better and we have always figured that eating with the locals will achieve that and also probably taste loads better. We found this little restaurant full of locals and headed in. What do we order? What will it come with? When it says chicken does it mean feet? The food was great, really tasty and plentiful for the price.

We then went back to watch the light show. Now, the light show itself was pretty disappointing, but the view that came with it was not. Have a look for yourself.

It’s just been the mid-autumn festival here in Hong Kong. We missed this by a few days, but outside the Space Museum, which unfortunately has most of it’s exhibitions closed for refurbishment, they still had some lantern displays. Very pretty and colourful.

So, that’s it, our first few hours in Hong Kong. I will write more about the next two days shortly.

xx