As KL airport is used often as a stop over on international flights we had to carry our luggage through the x-ray machines and walk through the metal detectors twice once while passing through the customs then before boarding the plane. As it’s a giant airport they have trains to get to the right gate across the airport very modern, unlike a crowed and slow bus. Exiting Hong Kong airport we had to walk through heat sensors getting our body scanned. Our hotel is on the beach so we have a great view across the water and we decided to stay off the central island so we have s ferry ride across. We shared our cab with an American Lady from the Airport who is planning on moving to Hong Kong for work.
After purchasing an octopus card the solution to all public transport on Hong Kong and conveniently can be used in 7eleven where I am buying my constant supply of bottled water. That is one thing I miss is tapped water from Home which is practically free. It’s such a hassle to carry huge bottles too but they overcharge you in most places. We had met with Raph and Lawrence at the Science Museum just like science works, then we checked out some markets. There was a giant one three stories high and so hot inside on the first level meat just hung from the roof and butchers cut them up. Other shop keepers where degutting fish peeling and washing vegetables on the third level it was pre cooked meals like a cafeteria.
I have also noticed the amount of air pollution varying from day to day along with the huge amount of rubbish in the water on the ferries across to HK Central. Plastic bags empty bottles, shoes and heaps of polystyrene foam.
After spending an hour trying meeting up with Raph and Lawrence at the train station we discovered that there are two stations almost together Hong Kong station and Central Station. We had found the lettered entry exist point we needed but in the wrong location. We went out to have lunch at the famous Jumbo floating restaurant. We discovered the importance of reading up on transportation to our location when Raph refused to pay for use of a boat of an elderly lady constantly harassing us and following us, as we found the free boat docking up.
Sharing food together was something I was really enjoying, and Lawrence new what was good as many of the food we had never tried. There where also stories surrounding some of the food like rice wrapped in a lotus leaf to feed the dish so they wouldn’t eat the body of a gentleman drowned in the river.
Some of the shopping was very claustrophobic for me with the computer market proving to be a struggle full of little shops swamped by many people along with now windows and a maze of shops to navigate to get out. We also found the best way to keep dry and see Hong Kong was to take a ride on the double story trams, which where very skinny compared to ours.
