The Stop-Over

Wednesday 25th - Hong Kong!

After a miserable flight where I couldn't make myself sleep (and prevented Ingo the luxury as well) we made it to the stinking hot and muggyness that is Hong Kong! Found our hostel with minimum fuss and went straight to bed and straight to sleep!

A couple of hours later Ingo was up and awake with a vengence! I was quite happy to stay asleep, so I tried my hardest to stall us but no, wasn't going to happen so I dragged myself up ;) We set off only with food on the mind we wandered around and around until we found somewhere to eat.
Hong Kong's pretty crazy! lights and stuff everywhere! and people everywhere too. The restaurant we found sat the foreigners a little separate from the regulars haha ;) But the food was good - pan fried dumplings (Kelly, they were the best ever. You should be jealous right now), and then we shared a plate of fried rice (because Ingo confused the waitress while he was trying to order his dish, by bringing up the starter again, and then when she didn't know what he was talking about he said, 'don't worry, that's fine' and subsequently she didn't write down or bring him his beef hot plate) but we were also given tea which I think was some sort of green tea, but not too sure.

After dinner we went walking again and made our way to the harbour. Unfortunately the laser light show that's on every single night of the year was cancelled for the two nights (and only those two nights) that we're here for so we miss out on seeing that, but the view across to the Hong Kong mainland skyline is pretty amazing! Coloured lights everywhere :) We wandered along the whole harbour line and then decided we'd go to the night markets. Ingo had to lead us there because I was completely lost.

A long seemingly endless street of market stalls the night market was! I got myself a black pashmina for $6 and we got an umbrella that closes up like a bottle (much to Ingo's disappointment we noticed one later that had the apple logo on it) and then walked up and down looking at all the (excuse the phrase) useless crap that people can buy! I wanted to get a new hambag but it doesn't really make sense buying a bag for bag's sake as none of them were that great. So we left with our few trinkets and headed back to the hostel :)