Trips for Hong Kong

Reach HK airport. Check in hotel. Wong Tai Sin Temple (黄大仙庙) Wong Tai Sin is the most famous temple in Hong Kong. In HK movies, we always watch people going there on 1st or 15th of the month to pray and get the 符 (spell-paper), etc. As I am …

Peninsula Macau 1. Ruins of St. Paul The Heart of Central: Commerce and Colonial Legacies Begin at the (1) Legislative Council building (8 Jackson Road) in Central (near exit K of the MTR). This neoclassical, 1912 building originally housed …

Dinner or Supper Banquet? We were fortunate enough to be invited to a formal party while in Hong Kong. That was when I learned a unique culture of hosting a banquet there. A banquet is usually preceeded by a socializing period that starts from …

We took the 8 o’clock flight to Hong Kong via the Philippine Airlines. I don’t have much sleep the night before and was heavily exhausted from finishing my end-of-semester deadlines in school. Our Hong Kong trip would be the official start of my …

Today I woke up and the first thing I thought was - where is my cat - which is what I'm usually thinking these days when I wake up because he's generally a trouble maker. I realized I was in Hong Kong and it was still quite early given that …

After 17 hours of travel, we finally arrive in HK where we find Lisa and our mountain of suitcases. The flight was fairly uneventful except for the series of UFO's which flew along with us just before we reached Honk Kong. (seriously! 12 lights …

We’re going to try and keep an online journal of our trip to Hong Kong . Hopefully, we’ll be able to post something on a daily basis but no guarantees. We’ll definitely have tons of pictures to post online when we get back!! Well, we leave in 2 w …

Day 1 - Reached Beijing International Airport around 5pm Beijing time. The sky has turned dark, head straight to the Airport Express Bus station only costs me RMB16 per person to get to the west side of the city where my hotel is. Day 4 Today …

When we got to Hong Kong, Mike splitted up with us and met up with his friend Alex. Me, Andy, Dave, and Phil checked into the Holiday Express. Finding the bank to get exchange. Dimsum - met a nice mother & daughter who took us to the Dimsum …

Loved the trip, hong kong kind of grew on us. Hotel was great, food was hard to get good halal food, but Islam food in Kowloon city was excellent (HK30 each way from the hotel). Underestimated food costs, but didn't spend very much on souveneirs …