Thanks to Hong Kong airports awful WiFi am writing this on my unresponsive phone! Things always end up ending the way they started!

I decided to travel half way across the city to get breakfast at the Taiwanese cafe chain 85C that was next to my hostel in Yau Ma Tei. I know that sounds quite ridiculous but I really wanted to have their mushroom pastry one last time - it might be the best item of food, in the world.

I spent most of the rest of today on the island of Lantau, the largest of the outlying islands of Hong Kong. Home to Disneyland and the Airport it's also mostly covered in jungle and if it had been cooler when I was here, I'd most certainly have done a trek.

I left my bags in storage at the airport and headed into Tung Chung. 14 bed dorms aren't good for sleeping and I was a bit disorientated in the residential suburb of Tung Chung, the main urban area near the airport.

I stumbled across a bus going 1 Hour west to Lantau and Hong Kong's westernmost point - Tai O. Tai O is an old style fishing village that was once the main entry point for illegal immigrants from the Maoist mainland.

It's a dying town dependent on tourism as only the older generation fish. But they rake in the tourist dollar precisely because they do everything to make the place authentic and judging by smell alone it is a very authentic fishing village. It also has its fair share of gorgeous views and cute temples.

I've spent most of the afternoon in Hong Kong Airport. Too much time in airports this summer! Hong Kong is about average to be honest, they're all the same. At least I managed to get through a fair amount of code for my project before the lack of WiFi started to bug the software.

Now am awaiting my Air France flight - 13 hours but arrives before 6am local time. It's packed, a sign that despite the protests business travel between the La Defense and Central Hong Kong is as strong as ever.

I've just had a bizarre overpriced dinner of, something Fujianese in the food court. It was the cheapest thing I could find, though dousing it in soy sauce made it edible.

As it's my last blog I want to do a little summary or ranking of everything from this whole summer.

Top Highlights

1. The Jungle Rave in Borneo!
2. Getting the camera trap footage
3. Moped into the mountains in India
4. Zhangjiajie hike day 2
5. Man Mo Temple
6. Evenings in Datcha dog shelter
7. Gaza!
8. Shanghai skyline

Lowlights

1. Guilin hawkers
2. Rudeness and unpleasantness in China
3. Leech in my private area
4. Petra

No illness! The whole trip! What a surprise.

Hong Kong is without a doubt the best city for the ease you can explore exotic areas. Delhi, Amritsar and Varanasi do have a thrill factor in comparable though. Shanghai was fascinating as a first look in China. KL and Singapore are quite dull.

No question Fenghuang is the most beautiful city however.Zhangjiajie was probably the most impressive natural wonder I've ever seen. In fact, what the heck, here's my whole time ranking (to be taken with a pinch of salt).

Top Natural Wonders

1. Zhangjiajie
2. Uyuni and Eduardo Avaroa
3. Torres del Paine
4. Cocora Valley
5. Tikal (not natural per se but still in the wild)

Top Cities

1. Jerusalem
2. Istanbul
3. Hong Kong
4. Buenos Aires
5. Rio de Janeiro

Worst Places

1. San Salvador
2. East Tel Aviv
3. Guilin central
4. Old Delhi
5. Bucharest

Top adventurous moments

1. Tuk tuk up a volcano, hike to the summit, lunch like a Bing villain on the lake shore hitchhike home in El Salvador
2. Hitchhike with a Belarussian software engineer on a Moped from Rishikesh into the Himalayas to find a waterfall
3. Going that little bit further in Zhangjiajie to an awesome view point in the middle of the jungle with no crowds
4. Everything in Bogota - Soacha, La Perseverancia, Santa Fe
5. Those times just wondering cities and stumbling into really cool stuff in Jerusalem, La Paz Istanbul and Hong Kong to name a few

Here it goes, heading home and on to Oxford in less than a week. How time flies, from one adventure to the next. Grab life with both hands

Ciao!