Hong Kong

 

We woke up to drizzle and fog. 

Our first impressions were holy sh$t!! Big city!

At the cruise terminal we paid for all day passes on a hop on hop off tour company. 

As we wound our way on the hop on hop off through Kowloon we were thinking this place is a concrete jungle and not “our thing” as we are not shoppers ( I imagine this place is amazing for those making purchases).

We did one route on the bus going through Kowloon and then under the harbour to Hong Kong itself. 

Our next bus took us across the island to the town of Stanley. We enjoyed that ride as we went up into the misty mountain and back down to the ocean ( but always with housing and high rises).

As we were the only people on the bus on the way back we took the opportunity to video call Lisa. 

We came back on another route that took us to different parts of the island, passing numerous apartments and a really interesting graveyard that was built on  terraces ( like we see in photos of rice paddies in the mountainous areas)

We got off at “central” and looked around for somewhere to eat and quickly realized it was pointless ( concrete jungle and nowhere obvious to eat)

A few minutes later we were on the famous Star ferry going across the harbour back to Kowloon. Now “that” was cool ( just to say we had done it)

We stopped for a bite to eat ( a sit down meal) and then carried on walking the street filled with high end stores. We found a couple locations with good views from Kowloon back over to Hong Kong Island. 

Because today is the first of two days of the new lunar year our return bus was cancelled ( which we knew about) and many streets downtown were being closed off to get ready for tonight’s parade. 

To get back we took the metro to the closest station to the ship (about 1.2 kms walk along the waterfront) and I as wrote this we are looking across to our ship and enjoying the peacefulness.