Hong Kong MTR stations

I hope I manage to get every station photos that I stepped my feet onto in October 2008 into the big piece here. They system covered many tourism places in Hong Kong. Why we do not have something similar here? Komuter is too slow and far away from important spots.

Giant Buddha in Lantau Island

We wanted to go Lantau Island because we heard a lot of this place in Hong Kong drama series. So we took the Ngo Ping 360 cable car ride there. It was a magnificent view from inner side of cable car. We saw the Hong Kong international airport and some high condominums, and greens.

This is the place. The ride took roughly about 25 minutes which was 100times better than the bus ride. We went down from Lantau Island in bus that drove through very curvy roads. I almost throw up.

I tried the bubble milk tea while some friends drank coffee from Lantau Island Starbucks. Haha

This is what we came so far away for, the famous Giant buddha.

I like this place as it is not as congested as the city area. Peaceful, and calm.

I saw panda in Ocean Park

aiWe started our second day in Hong Kong with some local breakfast in deCoral cafe. We opted for cleaner and air-conditioned place instead of stuffy shop. Pardon the "big lady" of us.

I picked the congee, lobak-gou and milk tea set. It was plain white congee with century egg. Pieces.

I heart the lobak-gou in Hong Kong especially from our previous dessert shop. Yummy.

We proceeded to MTR station after filling our stomaches and took bus at the station where we can ride to Ocean Park. The day was hot and the sun was glaring angrily at the six of us. Luckily I had my shade on and rub a palm full of 180spf sun lotion before departure. Else I think I will look like roasted pig after the trip. By the way, we bought one packet of cooling face masks and applied at night after the adventurous day. Haha. What a good idea from my bunch of friends...

They prepared flyers in English and chinese, both simplified and traditional.

Road signs inside Ocean Park pointing where shall you go for the rides. I never try a ride because I don't want to spoil the rest of my day of dizziness and vomitting.

This is the view from Ocean park looking towards the city and the roller coaster ride and aihui was focusing her camera at the same view too from lower ground.

The traditional dolphins show which I think was kind of dissapointing. I love Shamu in San Diego Sea World.

Sting ray

Clown fish aka nemo in Finding Nemo movie.

The jelly fishes picture which I took. Love these photos the most.. This place has the largest jelly fish aquarium. Anyway, this was my first time visiting a jelly fish aquarium. :P

Finally I got to witness live pandas. A very big panda named Jia Jia who eats a lot. Her neighbour Aan Aan shits a lot. They all , 3 of them stay inside large mirror glass separated from excited humans like us.

We rushed to the arena of stars after some shoppings in outlets and took some photos around before watching the Symphony of Lights from the walkway.

We were all feeling really exhausted ,legs screaming for Thai massage and body wanting to soak itself in tub of frangrant warm water. But we still went down for another round of shopping at Ladies' Street when reaching home in Mong Kok.

Everyone of us kept complaining of legs pain and how tired we were, but none of us stop. I love my friends!

Arrival in Hong Kong

When I first arrived in Hong Kong international airport I found it nothing spectacular. It was like any other usual airport like KLIA or Singapore airport. We purchased the Octopus card, airport express package which cost $220. We picked it because it suits us to the maximum. It has one way airport transfer which we only needed one and three days unlimited travel on the said, tourist routes.

We stayed in Mong Kok. When I first stepped out of the MTR station, I stood at the middle of a hustle and bustle city. Everything was so HongKong-nish. There were people and cars

everywhere. It looked almost like Jacky Chan's movie scene at the spot where they had the bamboo sticks stacking up at high flat buildings.

They even have a job opportunity to wash the trash bin. There are so many chinese around :D and the road construction workers are chinese, not bangladesh or indonesian. I was in Hong Kong.

We pulled our luggages along the busy roads trying to search for our hostel and at last found it. It was a humble place. Clean, neat, and cosy enough to fit three people in a room, and no more space for storing our packages. The bathroom was so small that I knocked my elbows on both side of walls when I lifted up my hands when changing. Afterall we won't be staying all day in our room, so the rooms were just nice and cheap enough to survive us 3 days in this expensive city.

Hong Kong was a weird place because when I looked up the buildings, there were so old and not mantained.

But, the lower floor of the old buildings was totally different in style. They were renovated and decorated like an expensive stores you can find in Sogo and Times Square.

We were all so hungry that we stumbled into this dessert shop that can be seen everywhere for their mango dessert. They looked tempting, refreshing and cooling for the six tired souls in this air-polluted city.

We stayed in Mong Kok where ladies' street, temple street, fa yuen street are just a block away. Not wasting the chance, we crawled downstairs to shop along these streets for pretty dresses, funky clothing, bags, accesorries and many more.

Downstairs at the corner shop of our hostel, there was a fishball stall.. I ate fishballs and smelly tofu there, which my friends all regarded as drain-smell tofu. I felt it taste like in heaven. Muaks.