Today I had to catch my train up to Guilin to hopefully meet up with Jenny tomorrow. I got up lateish, feeling that I deserved a bit of a lie in! I packed my bag and headed out into the city again about 11.30am. I picked my way through the slow walking crowds to mong kok east station where I purchased a HK$35 ticket to Lo Wu station in Shenzhen, the border point for mainline china. I'd never done a train border check before, and it all went very smoothly. ...

Day two in hong kong and I was feeling much more productive. I got up bright and early and headed straight out. First stop, I needed to get my train ticket to head up to Guilin tomorrow night. I caught the metro from mong mom east down to hung hom and went to a ticket agency where I purchased a soft sleeper ticket for about 600 HK$. That accomplished I walked around for a while trying to find the tsim tsui esplanade so I could take a walk and admire the river...

I arrived in hong kong and went trough immigration which was a complete breath of fresh air after Thai immigration! Neat orderly queues in a very westernized airport. Still the same miserable people though, why don't these immigration people smile!! Passing through I approached a desk where I asked about getting the A21 bus into Kowloon and she gave me a map of how to get to the bus station in the airport. Realizing I had no money I went to an ATM and was ref...