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20.01.07 - Just to let you know we arrived safely and have had an amazing first few couple of days, On the first night of arrival we basically chucked our bags in the room and went straight down in to the streets of Hong Kong were it was full of markets and cheap tacky crap so should be no problem for any presents! As we strolled the streets we started to get the Chinese feeling with food bars almost on every corner with your meal alive and kicking before you choose it, Dan you would love it, We stayed well clear and decided on going McDonalds just to play it safe for the first night.
When we arrrived I felt quite claustrophobic its a massive place and the buildings just go on up and up and up, But finally starting to feel settled. We have basically used all transport going from the boat which is dirt cheap at basically 20p to cross to the islands, to buses and the metro service.
21.01.07 - The first Day me and Kurt basically walked the streets to see and find what was out their, We went into a few bars met some people and found out a few destinations we should check out which we basically have done today.
22.01.07 - It has been a really great birthday how many people can basically say they was in Hong Kong at the budda and a monestray? The Budda sits tall on the mountains and is a massive Iron statue got some great pics so you will be able to check for yourselevs shortly but its just amazing luckly for us the cloud and smog managed to hang off for a few hours. Weather has not been to great so far just cloudly but still warm enough to wear T shirts and everything just some of the things we want to do we need a good clear day so hopefully it will change shortly. Anyway gotta shoot for now off for a meal soon and a few beverages round the bars.
23.01.07 we went up to the peak of Hong Kong Island were you can over look the whole city and parts of Kowloon which its an amazing view and we were quite lucky too because the weather has been pretty crap over the week still warm but no sun, Gotta be warmer than Lancashire anyway! Anyway while we was up there we had the most amazing expierence guys brace yourselfs they had an EA Sports store up there, Now obviously you girls will not appreciate this but sod it! They had loads of Xboxs and PS2 set up to play for FREE ( Free Dan) and also and history of games going back to the 80's me and kurt could only remember as far back as 1991 classics, Anyway girls you can now read back on after boring you about that. After that we attended the crapiest Zoo in the world but it was free so it we hald expected it after that we just went out to a bar for a couple and an early night.
24.01.07 - Yesterday we hardly did anything during the day apart from sleep cause we was heading out to the horse racing which is a big event in Hong Kong it holds 55,000 and is full of buisness men and tourists chucking away their money, Ted we was going to ring you and ask for some tips ;). While we was down there we got talking to some Aussie lass and she said at moment temps in Oz are hitting 40 degrees think i need to invest in some Factor 40, Rip me on as you wish girls but we should love it! We then also got talking to a coupel of girls from Kent both of them matching Kurts Standards which it has been good to speak to different people cause we have been a bit isloated and not seen many english or Aussies were we have been staying and obviously when your in close quaters with each other their is only so much you can talk about. Also who would of had this down, Kurt is the first to loose something his camera not that im bragging cause i would of been gutted about it so we been looking round the bars for that today but no joy.
25.01.07 - Anyway today we have packed up and just relaxing now and getting ready for our flight tomorrow at 9.25 which is another 9 hour journey and will then put us guys 10 hours in front of you. So our impressions of Hong Kong are very good and we think 5 days is just enough you can pretty much complete all the tourist stuff within 4 days, Its very clean on the streets and the people are friendly and there is never any trouble so I would recommend anyone to come and we have managed to do it on budget we both only had 300 quid between us and we have made this stretch our meals have come down to 1-2 a day with no snacking so hopefully im going to be slim when i get back
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