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Hey everyone!!
Hope you are all ok, I'll have to keep this short and sweet...you'll see why in a sec,
Hong Kong was brilliant, totally different to what i thought it would be like, not so busy, very westernised and stuff. The people I travelled with all get on really well, so we did the kong english style and ignored the jetlag and visitted prettty much every bar in the whole city. in the day, we went to the other 2 areas of Hong Kong, New Territories and Hong Kong island. There was a light festival on while we were there so there were lanterns everywhere, along with tenticle kebabs (which no one braved) and lots of weird and wonderful fruit and veg that nobody recognised, and looked like they were out of a cartoon.
Besides the markets and bars, we went to victoria peak, the highest point of hong kong, aberdeen fishing village and went round to see all the house boats on a little boat with the 'walla walla men' (the men who steer the boats...photos to come when i get chance!)
wW also went to stanley market and saw lots of scarves and jewellery and things and a jade market where you got jumped on worse than back home if you even looked in the direction of the shop and dragged inside to buy some jewellery. We then went out for a traditional 8 course cantonese meal (yes 8 course!) on the 56th floor of a revolving restaurant which was the fastest meal i have ever eaten in my life and those of you that have ever been for food with me will appreciate just how fast it must have been! If you dont inhale your food in our house, you dont eat as sam will have eaten it! ooo we also went to a temple which, i'm not entirely sure what religion it was, from what i understood from the tour guide, chinese religion is sort of a mixture, and if they dont get the answer they want they just go somewhere else or try again, which is weird to me because they rely so heavily upon religion to make all their decisions for them.
While we were there, some of us went into the little square with the other people who were praying who had all brought meals for their gods to offer to them which they then took home to share with their family once they were finished at the temple. While they were worshipping, they were given a little tub of sticks, each of which had a number on and they asked a question they wanted answering and shook the pots out infront of them and whichever number stick fell out represented a different response so they then go to find an interpreter to explain what it means. They also get 2 pieces of wood which look like terrys chocolate orange pieces and throw them to see how accurate their reading is. If they landed open it meant buddha was smiling and the response was accurate, half and half was so so and closed meant it wasnt very accurate...although we were stood by a woman who must have been doing 'best of' because she had rolled them about 76 times!!!
Really amazing place, good laughs and Harris's birthday pub crawl made Hong Kong really memorable and brilliant, but I'm glad it was only for 3 days...
NEXT STOP SYDNEY!!!
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