Our new home is in the Chungking Mansion (Tsim Sha Tsui district), a labyrinth-like 20-storey building full of guest houses, all scattered over the whole building, e.g. our tiny room (including a 1m2 bathroom containing shower, sink and toilet) is on the 6th floor C-block while the guest house reception is on the 11th floor B-block. Interestingly, the building is full on Indians (and their food and music) and Africans. So we haven't been quite able to leave India just yet. But this place seems to be one of the few that offers reasonably priced accommodation (180 H$ = 23 USD) in Hong Kong.
Yesterday evening promenaded the southern tip of the Kowloon peninsula (the Avenue of Stars) and watched the laser show --- the skyscrapers of the Hong Kong island lighting up by the rhythm of the music and a few green laser beams shot into the sky. The view to the Hong Kong island with the lit up sky scrapers is impressive even without the laser show. The show could have actually been better (maybe the foggy weather made it worse), plus the background music sucked and the sea stank.
Finished the evening at an Irish pub eating sausages with beans and mashed potatoes, and drinking beer. (To appreciate the significance of this consider that all of this stuff was illegal in Gujarat.)
- apply for the Chinese visa (will take at least 3 days)
- visit several museums: Art, Space, Science, Zoo
- visit Disneyland
- consider buying a new camera (the flashing and focusing capability of our 5-year-old Lumix has been deteriorating over the recent months)
- visit the 55th floor the IFC Mall
- visit Macau
- visit several markets: goldfish, flower, bird, night food
- climb to The Peak and/or to The Great Buddha to enjoy the views to the city
- visit the Kowloon Park and swim in its Olympic-sized swimming pool
good to know, you're back on the road - a 'clean' one.
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